Spiderman 3

( Mild spoilers )

Would've been a relatively good popcorn movie if the first two movies hadn't gone and gotten my hopes up.

PSA

From what I can piece together from the various Mac support forums, a mic-and-headphone headset connected on the audio line in port won't pick up microphone input; the sound card is too cheap, and it needs a preamp. I will have to go with Bluetooth or USB (and I'm not sure what I'll do if I feel like recording some music, but I'll figure that out if the time comes).

(I'm sick of paying $58 a month when my land line phone is increasingly unusable, so I've decided to disconnect it, and stick with Skype when I'm at home and my cell phone otherwise).

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Goodbye, Alton! (Sniff, sniff)

I was a little suspicious when the cable TV I was paying $12 a month for came with 76 channels. But I didn't say anything, because I was happy the way it was and it was their mistake if it was a mistake. (Mind you, if I'd been sure something was fishy I'd have called them up; their web page was infuriatingly vague about just what came with the basic cable package.)

Well--enough with the casuistry. My cable went out, and they came to fix it, and when they left I was down to 25 channels. And no more Food Network, alas. Is there anything better to do on a sleepy Sunday afternoon than watch people make really pretty cakes?

Still with the spamming LJ

But I recalled what I wanted to post, and didn't post because I was exhausted from putting books on the shelves.

Namely: we have manga.

Full set of Bleach, full set of Naruto, full set of Angel Sanctuary, full set of Dragonball Z, full set of Inu Yasha, full set of Fushigi Yuugi... Fruits Basket, Red River...

We have split off a section for the adult graphic novels, because I was starting to get antsy about shelving Angel Sanctuary in the middle of the adult fiction under "angel."

Speaking of which. The cataloging on these is abysmal. The '100 Bullets' comic: some are under 'Bullets,' some are under 'One Hundred," some are under "Azzarello" (the author's name). Likewise, some of Death Note is under 'Death Note' and some is under 'Yanagi.' For now I am going by the spine label even if it means splitting up a series which ought to go together; otherwise I will be the only person who knows graphic novels intimately enough to be able to find them on the shelves when there's a request for them. Later I may be able to make new spine labels; but I don't think I can actually go in and change the catalog records, if that's where the problem lies.

We really do not have enough space on the shelves for all the graphic novels.

I think I should check out a ton to free up more space. Wouldn't that be the kind thing to do?

(We have so little space on the shelves. I was wishing I could somehow 'lose' all the Amish books, which won't circulate in this most un-Amish of libraries; we wound up pulling all the double copies of books and putting them into boxes, which will do fine for now. We also have too many cookbooks, and I think I'll have to check some out to remedy the situation.)