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The End of the Blogosphere

ooheeoohiamjustlikebuddyholly.JPGI recently stumbled across Natalia Yanchak’s blog  which makes for some great reading…she is the keyboardist of The Dears (band out of Montreal whose album No Cities Left is truly a masterpiece and after an entire year of listening to it, I still don’t get tired of it.  It is on my list of albums to bring to the island with me).

When I was adding her blog to my blogfeed, I decided to finally bite the bullet and clean up the folder full of blogs which haven’t been updated in six months.  I felt bad doing so…I really enjoy reading my friend’s blogs but they must have either moved on completely to Facebook or have lost interest in the self-indulgent ways of updating thyself through the Internet.  Ah well.  I’ve left a few of them in the blog folder in hopes that I will see an update once in awhile, but have deleted the others.  So if you are one of my friends and decide to update your blog and you haven’t done so in the past six months, drop me a line saying there’s a new entry!  I’m not going to bother looking for it otherwise unfortunately.

Ah, blogging.  I wield so much power of thinking so many people read my blog and I can control your thought patterns eventually with my swaying words (“Support artists…think for thyself…Smashing Pumpkins forever…”) like a serpent you see in an Indiana Jones flick which can hypnotize the bejeezus out of you.

I’m heading to the optometrist in an hour.  That’s right…the laser eye surgery may have a finite lifespan. Too bad I was young and foolish and never had yearly checkups or else it may have actually been covered under warranty.  Ah well, I’m due for a nice pair of glasses right about now anyhow.  Perhaps some Buddy Holly?

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Selling Textbooks

Yesterday I piled all my old textbooks (well not the ones from college!) into my backpack and lugged them with me all day so that I could bring them to the University book store.  They offer a buy-back program and I figured there were a few (read: most of them) textbooks that I would never crack open ever again.

I was thinking I would get some half decent coin back for these textbooks but out of ten of them, I only sold two of them; one sold for $22 and the other sold for a whopping $2!  There as also another book that would have sold for $1 but I enjoyed it so I figured the least I could do is keep it.  The rest of them were not wanted as a buy-back (as in there was already a newer version available or people simply didn’t want them).

I must admit that I was disappointed that they couldn’t take most of my textbook and I had to haul them back home with me.  My next step will be to post them up on the University website in case a student wants an old version of a textbook.

Mental Note: If you want to sell your textbooks, it’s best to sell it as soon as you are done with it, otherwise there may be a new version that is released in the meantime.

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For Those About To Rock – Trish, We Salute You

IMG_1715, originally uploaded by palm0014.

*please note that the photo is from Trish’s upcoming album “Out of The Closet”

Last year, the Heart and Crown graced Trish’s birthday. This year…we seek out burgers tonight. Yum!

There’s nothing more I can say about Trish…she’s great, she’s beautiful, she’s caring and she digs sci-fi TV shows, the Blues and Smurfs. She also has a great blog of her own where she provides advice to everyone: http://evilsmurfette.blogspot.com/

Take a trip through Memory Lane to see what happened in years gone by around her birthday:
http://palmer.grumpster.com/?p=656
http://palmer.grumpster.com/?p=299

Other than that, all I can say is that I hope you have an amazing birthday tonight and I want to let you know that you’ll never get another gift from me that is cooler than the Chuck Norris photograph. I’m just saying that so you don’t get your hopes up tonight.