What's everyone up to right now?

[Rev. Rye]

On my last full day in Door County this year, I spent some time doing MiniGolf at Johnson's Park in Sister Bay. I got a 60, and Dad got a 66. I also spent some time working at the Skee-Ball machines. 10 games, $5 worth of quarters, 182 tickets. And nothing worth spending it on, sadly. Tips for future Skee-Ball games: 1) Listen to Laura Nyro during the games. Something about her music makes me a better skee-ball player, since I managed to make about three times more tickets this time around. 2) Make sure there's something worth getting at the ticket booth beforehand.

[Ravenshire]

If your local library loans ebooks through Overdrive, you'll have the option to renew, I believe, starting 48 hours before it's due back, provided the have been no holds placed.

These are Adobe format editions. Not sure that affects your point. Thanks for the info. I'll keep that in mind, but the last two books I downloaded are in Adobe Content Server Message format, which my OverDrive client doesn't recognize. I can only open them in Adobe Digital Editions.

I'd I remember correctly, even the Adobe only files are treated the same way. At least the pdf (not to be confused with epub, which is similar) ebooks are.

Although, the latest versions of Overdrive require the damned Adobe reader for the PC regardless.

[*Deidre*]

Went out tonight with hubby, got home...and had some wine. Then, the door bell rang late, and it was the UPS guy. Damn, they deliver late. I had ordered some make up and lotion, I wasn't expecting it until next week. They have a tough job!

[Rev. Rye]

Getting ready for tomorrow. Tomorrow, Dad and I go up for our annual two-week vacation to Door County. And this time around, apparently, the cottage owner has installed improved WiFi; hopefully, no longer will I have to worry about the prospect of the it randomly deciding it doesn't want to connect anymore. And then deciding it does.

Now, I'm getting ready for tomorrow again. This time, we come back down to Illinois.

[Astreja]

Did some weeding in the back yard after work. Had nap.

Went out to the back yard again, this time with a reciprocating saw and a power drill, to deal with an undead tree stump that keeps trying to grow back. (Most of it was ground down by an arborist last year, but a lot of it was hiding under a hillock of topsoil.) I sawed the outer layer of bark off it, all the way around, and drilled some holes into it. Plan is to make a strong solution of a high-nitrogen plant food in an attempt to rot that sucker out of the ground.

[DodosAreDead]

Forgot about the eclipse and promptly missed it.   Although with the constant rain and clouds I wonder if one could even have seen it properly here.
I'm currently thinking about how erratic my life is at most parts. One week I have all the time in the world, the next I can barely remember to feed the dog. I'm currently up to my chin in projects and impending exams... yay.

[Little lunch]

Did some weeding in the back yard after work.  Had nap.

Went out to the back yard again, this time with a reciprocating saw and a power drill, to deal with an undead tree stump that keeps trying to grow back.  (Most of it was ground down by an arborist last year, but a lot of it was hiding under a hillock of topsoil.)  I sawed the outer layer of bark off it, all the way around, and drilled some holes into it.  Plan is to make a strong solution of a high-nitrogen plant food in an attempt to rot that sucker out of the ground.

Undead tree stump.
I like that.

[Little lunch]

Day six of my diet today and still going strong.
Had three great temptations though, one whilst walking through the markets with a client past the doughnut stall, the second at bowling with a client and a man was eating a sausage roll nearby, and the third whilst cooking honey mustard chicken for a client not long ago.

[Rev. Rye]

Getting ready to come back down to Illinois. I'm mostly packed, and, also, a film I've been lobbying for years to be featured on the blog 366weirdmovies has finally made the official list of weird movies. Seriously, it features a nuclear apocalypse, Sinead O'Connor as the Virgin Mary, a casually masturbating priest, and a boy crapping a friend's floor and then murdering said friend's mother Charlie Manson-style. How is this NOT one of the weirdest movies of all time? And how did it take 10 years for this film to make The List? Better late than never, I reckon.

[Angrboda]

Reading Rupert Sheldrake's Science Set Free, chapters 4-8, in preparation for my philosophy group next week. I think a lot of what Sheldrake has to say in the book is ultimately bollocks, but it at least is somewhat interesting and thought provoking bollocks, not simply the kind you feel stupider for having read afterward.

Yesterday I queued up a bunch of book requests in my local and statewide library system, mostly as a consequence of a slight renewal of interest in Taoism prompting me to invest in an electronic copy of the Tao Te Ching and the Zhaungzi, so that I have them ready at hand and don't need to fetch the paper versions when I need to do so. So, I decided to buy a new copy. But which translation? That appears to be a decision which is not readily resolved by online research, so I've requested a number of the most talked about translations for my own inspection. Along the way, other subjects and other book requests surfaced, so now I'm looking at an avalanche of books coming my way. I don't consider myself much of a reader, as I don't have much patience for it, but it appears I'm going to be much more of a reader than not, at least for a while. I also have the Blackwell Companion To Natural Theology checked out, which I've barely touched, as well as a re-request for Craig and Moreland's Philosophical Foundations For A Christian Worldview which was just seeming to get good about the time I had to return it to the library (being an inter-library loan, I have a much shorter loan period for such than what I would have needed to make substantial headway into the book).