Bits and bobs

1) Used my Best Buy refund to buy a copy of The Fall, and watched it yesterday while folding laundry, doing dishes, etc. Wow.

2) One of my Arkansas cousins and I headed out to Ted's last night, chatted for quite a while afterward. It was nice to catch up ;o) I am regretting the excessive amount of Habañero salsa, but not enough not to skip it next time. I love the burn.

3) Still working on Iron Shoes and reading Merryland at the same time. Word count hanging between 27 and 28K, but I'll go over 30 in the next few days.

4) Ice in the birdbath all day yesterday, and cloudy and overcast. Blahsville.

5) Mr. Loki is going in for his annual shots today. He doesn't know that yet. We'll do a short walk afterwards, which means I'll have to blundle up.

6) Uh, I can't find the cord for the phone, so I haven't gotten the flooring pictures off yet. Perhaps tomorrow.

I just couldn't bring myself to spend...

An auction on Ebay-Belgium closed today at 70 Euros for a copy of Ansen Dibell's Aux confins de l'ouragan (Tidestorm Limit). That's the lowest I've seen one go for a long time. (There's one currently available on Priceminster-France for 135 Euros. Eep!) I still couldn't bring myself to bid on it.

I do want the book eventually. There were only 1530 copies ever printed (in French), so I know I'm going to have to pay--but not that much, not today.

I've also run across it listed in Creative Commons, which I'll have to check out.

I've read book 5 in the series (The Sun of the Grand Return, or Le soleil du grand retour), so I have a pretty good idea what happens in book 4, but there are tidbits that I want to know....like what happened to Garin and Sua. Oh, well....

Perhaps next year.

ETA: A better place to put some free funds:
http://community.livejournal.com/helpvera/751.html

Every little bit helps. ;o)