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A lot of things I hoped would get done yesterday didn't. A big part of that was Scott having very different priorities than I did. At least the grocery shopping and the library run got done. I didn't go along to the library because my ankle was hurting. Scott also took Cordelia to Home Depot to look at paint colors. They want to paint her room during Scott's second week of vacation this year. Before Cordelia was born, we painted her room the color of Winnie the Pooh in the Disney adaptation. I forget what the official name of the color was. We also put up a Winnie the Pooh border near the ceiling. Cordelia has ripped down what she could reach of the border, but about half of it is still there.

I was hoping that we'd get the sheets changed yesterday. Our second set of sheets is actually clean right now (they didn't get washed for a long time because I couldn't take them down the stairs and Scott didn't think they were important. Left on his own, I don't think he'd ever change the sheets). They're even upstairs now.

I also hoped that Scott would install the new hard drive in my laptop. He didn't which pretty much means it won't happen until after our trip with his family. I don't see him doing it any day when he works. It's not a huge deal-- I don't expect to do anything that will fill up the 25 or so GB I've got free on this drive. I just would like it to be done.

Scott and Cordelia went to Whole Foods on their way home from Home Depot. I'd asked them to stop and pick up some more stevia. I only had a packet or two left (I'm pretty sure Scott's been using it, too). I looked at Kroger last week, but I didn't see any that wasn't mixed with other sweeteners. Not that I got to look very thoroughly-- Cordelia got very cranky at me for stopping and looking. At any rate, Scott picked up pizza for himself and Cordelia while they were at Whole Foods. I have a bad history with Whole Foods pizza, even the stuff with no tomatoes, so he didn't get any for me. He did call me to ask if he could get me anything besides the stevia, but we couldn't come up with any ideas for something that would work because all the things that interested me were things where he'd have to guess at what specifically I would like (I thought of cheese and of the hot buffet). He ended up just buying me a bottle Reed's ginger ale.

They also came home with two new collapsable laundry baskets. Cordelia's old basket had a protruding wire that actually cut her when she was carrying her laundry downstairs yesterday.

I have to get Cordelia to do more laundry today so that I have clean clothes for the week. I managed to put away most of my clean laundry yesterday, all except a few socks that I couldn't match up because there wasn't much light in our bedroom (I can't turn on the overhead light when the fan is running. Well, I can't do it easily, especially not with my ankle still hurting, because doing it requires kneeling on the bed because I'm too short to reach the cord any other way). The socks in question are dark brown and navy and black. They're kind of hard to match up even in good light. I can tell that it had been a long time since I last put away laundry-- There were four long sleeved dresses in the basket.

I think I've got to stop visiting FFA. It's eating my time for no reward. It'll still be very tempting to use it as a short break while I'm link finding, but surely I can find something else. My original reason for going there was hope of finding a beta reader, and that seems to be a really extremely poor place to look. In the time I've been going there, I've only seen people actually find beta readers twice even though a lot of people have asked.

I'm trying to figure out if the tins of instant coffee I get now contain less or if I'm somehow measuring it out differently. I used to be able to get seven days out of a tin. Now, I can only get six which requires a little more planning on my part in terms of telling Scott how many tins to buy. The difference between six days and seven is actually pretty considerable-- I use approximately four tablespoons of powder every day (two for each cup of coffee).

I queried the library yesterday about a CD I've had a hold on for months. There are three people waiting for it after me, and the only copy has been 'in transit' for several months. At this point, I can only think that it's lost. I don't know if they'll bother to replace it-- It's a Kinks' album, and they have quite a few of those, so I assume that the person making decisions about which CDs to buy likes the Kinks, but buying a replacement is often a different thing entirely.

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Does anyone here use Letterboxd? I can't quite get a sense of what one's supposed to use it for if one's not interested in the social networking part of it. I don't watch many movies, and I'm unlikely to review any, and I'm definitely not likely to want to connect to other people there. I have the impression that it doesn't offer movie recommendations except through reading other people's reviews and guessing whether or not their tastes align with one's own. That seems most likely to lead me to movies I've already heard of and am interested in. In my experience, browsing a large database is a poor way to find things of interest.

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Interesting. I searched for The Silmarillion in our public library's catalog (someone had mentioned it being good as an audiobook, and I wanted to see if the library had it in that format. They don't). The Silmarillion, itself, is catalogued as straight up fiction and shelved under the author's last name. The standalone volumes containing specific parts of The Silmarillion are catalogued as English literature, using the Dewey decimal system (specifically, 823 call numbers which are 'English fiction'). That means the three sub-parts the library owns are shelved in an entirely different location (on a different floor even) than the single, complete volume is. Why on earth would they do that? And is it even worth mentioning to the library staff? They seemed pleased, a while back, when I let them know that the title of a movie was misspelled in their cataloguing record. Well, not pleased exactly, just glad to know and be able to fix it.

(And I note, looking at Wikipedia's list of Dewey's 800 call numbers that, in each sub-category, there is a number for 'literature' and a number for 'fiction' as well as numbers for 'poetry' and 'drama' and a couple of other categories that could be literature. I wonder what makes a particular item 'literature' as opposed to some other category. Literature tends to be a higher status category, so who decides?)