And this would be why Amazon is winning.....

You know when you decide that you'll try to go to a bookstore to buy a book instead of immediately ordering from amazon (save a bit of gas carbon costs theoretically)? Inevitably they don't have it.

So this weekend I checked out B&N website and found they have a function where you can reserve a book and they'll inform you if a specific store has it in stock. Glad I did, cause as usal, they didn't have it.

So, I went to Borders website and they have the same function...theoretically. No notice emailed to me as to yay or nay if they have it (though they do helpfully already list the ones that are definitely out of stock).

So yeah...amazon still wins.

The chair is good :) Though I didn't really use it much yesterday because I was devouring Outlander. Overall, a very good book (and definitely one of the better timetraveling books I read -- I still remember the drek of a book of a woman from 1990s LA that got landed in imperial rome. Yechhhh). Good enough to finish the 800 pages in 12 hours;) Though the did have the odd habit of telling you X happened after the fact and you go back to where you should have seen it happening and there being no mention of it. Happened three or four times, mostly towards the end. Probably she and the copyeditor were going a bit crosseyed she had to cut something for length. Now I really want to buy more in the series and see if they're horribly derivative (*martin*) or actually do something novel. ( boring weekend )

Anyone else checking out Kings tonight?

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I'm really tired of the neighborhood skunk outside my heat/a/c intake vent.

really tired.