October 11, 2006

• What’s New

   

  Since someone asked, in view of the paucity of posts lately–I’m fine, and every day is just as good as I choose to make it.  Businesss has been largely nonexistant lately due to the weather, and I have been feeling a bit of a pinch.  We have plenty of wiggle room on our credit cards, but the way I was brought up, it seems almost immoral to put groceries on a credit card.  Which I will be doing, soon after I leave the library.  Getting gas is different, since they has gas credit cards when I was a kid.  Speaking of which, I recall my dad was one of the inventors of the cash advance–he would pull into the Esso stattion and tell  attendant “give me $5 worth of regular, but don’t put it in the tank” with a wink.  The attendant would ring up the charge “sale,” hand my dad a fin, and dad had beer money for the day.  But I digress.

  The biggest gun show of the year comes up in a few weeks, and I have high hopes. since the PFD comes out a few days before the show, and I am now accepting Visa and MC on sales.   I just called in an order for a bunch of swords–probably enough to last me a year or so–and next week, I’ll be ordering a dozen crossbows.  This is one of the fun things about being an arms merchant–getting tons of neat stuff in the mail  Sadly, the CRKT Desert Cruiser–an awesome liner-lock tactical folder–is sold out.  Sigh.

  In other news briefly, I am dealing with a shitload of cats.  About a mointh ago, this nitwit returned two cats she had talked me into giving her in the first place–they were a tad too young to leave home, b ut I let her had them just to get her off my back–and she dumped them off on my porch when I was away, with a kid-written note of apology.   A bit after that, someone else dumped this lovely sweet little  short-haired calico female–now named Fancy– along with a bag of food, no note.  A week after that, a really neat calico female with awesome alien looks (triangular face, bushy tail that looks more like a fox tail than a cats) showed  up and stole my heart–so she got named Raffles.  CC has pretty much gone feral again, Freaky seems to be MIA, and Peachy shows up for  quick meal every few weeks.

  Lots of good trashy books out–lawrence Block has a new Keller book out, and Lee Child outdid himself with the latest Jack Reacher.  And soon, Thomas Harris will be coming out with a Hannibal prequel.  Hannibal–my hero!  (Sigh.)

  Th th th that’s all, folks!

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