‘lost in a forest of books’ sounds pretty good to me.

i’m starting to take the ‘wine cellar’ approach to my library — curated for use when i need just the right flavor/vintage

Ah, the Before Times. The days of Hellthread and AlfHog, when this was still hammer country.

slithered

what a day to be literate

We don’t do Yvonne DeCarlo slander in this house.

absolutely rubbing my rabbit’s foot while typing.

nah, fam. The power vacuum after The Current Guy will be epic. Internecine squabbles will hack away at ‘the empire’ (GOP power base) until it shatters into ever smaller fiefdoms. It will be post-Alexander, post-Charlemagne, but so much dumber. Vance does not have the chops to unify.

my hovercraft is full of eels

definitely not having a Baja blast atm

Take tomorrow off. When you come in on Thursday just say they threw you back.

Don’t give them any ideas.

“I mean, honestly, Carol, where are you going to go?”

I really like the part about ‘loving the chances you are taking’. I remember what I realize now was the exhilaration of the recklessness of my choices.