A question:

Say you're wandering through a store, and something leaps out and grabs you and shouts "You must buy me for [person X]!" And this would be extremely humourous. Are you not then morally obligated to purchase it and give it to them?

[Edit: Buying this particular item and giving it to this particular person could potentially get you into trouble, not that said trouble would necessarily be a *bad* thing, but anyway.]

Also, is the recipient morally obligated to not lock the door so you can get a running start?

Bookish thoughts.

So I decided a little while ago to replace the hodgepodge of bookshelves in the studio with ones that a) match, and b) stack, and c) are bigger. Since I was running out of bookshelf space again. And it struck me that this would be a really good time to organize the books again into something resembling order.

Currently, three shelves worth of books are sorted into piles on the floor. There will be more, when I get to the shelves behind the door. Once I get ChooChoo back, they will get entered into the Readerware database I'd started (this has been a long-standing but not-yet-implemented plan). And I just priced label makers, so I can label the books with their proper LoC numbers and put them in proper order.

I am such a geek.

Thursday poetry.

"O listen to the sounding sea"
George William Curtis (1824--1892)

O listen to the sounding sea
That beats on the remorseless shore,
O listen! for that sound will be
When our wild hearts shall beat no more.

O listen well and listen long!
For sitting folded close to me,
You could not hear a sweeter song
Than that hoarse murmur of the sea.

*snerk*

I just got some spam with the subject line of "Wow. 80% off Mikey"

*giggle*