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It’s been a while since I posted an update on my latest secret project:
It’s been a while since I posted an update on my latest secret project:
Well, you’re probably wondering what this Bookcrossing thing is all about. Basically, it involves giving away books. To complete strangers. Ok, so now you think I’m really weird, but bear with me. If you’re a booklover, then you’ve probably got shelves full of books, just sitting there collecting dust. “But they’re my favourites!” you exclaim,…
Still somewhere in New Mexico, about 50 miles from the Texas border Stopped for lunch in Roswell. Aliens are their only tourist attraction, so they make the most of it. As well as the “official” UFO museum there are half a dozen gift shops (or “UFO and Alien Stuff” shops, as several were called) posing…
Forget the world ending tomorrow, it’s 20.12.2012 today! (at least for those of us in the part of the world that writes dates the sensible way round…) And in a couple of hours it’ll be 20.12.2012 20:12, which is seriously cool. I love those sorts of mathematical oddities with dates. Palindromes (like the 21.02.2012 we…
Ok, so that walk yesterday was even more successful than I thought! I not only got a second catch (Jackson’s Dilemma by Iris Murdoch), but MrPloppy got a job out of one of the flyers I delivered! I still didn’t sleep particularly well, unfortunately 🙁 But at least everything else about the walk worked out….
The-Organist had told there was going to be a charity booksale in Timaru yesterday, so of course lytteltonwitch and I had to have a wee expedition down there 🙂 We were a bit late getting away from Christchurch, after taking a detour to drop MrPloppy and a repaired computer off at a customer’s house, but…
Seeing as the conference was on a Friday, I decided to stay up in Wellington for the weekend. Discoverylover, as well as offering me a bed, arranged a bookcrossing meetup for the Friday evening, so after the conference finished I walked down to the railway station to meet up with her and the other bookcrossers…