Today is going to be a bad day at our office, for anyone on a diet. We’ve already had bagels and fruit for breakfast, plus the VP wandering around the office with a little red cart full of donuts, and there’s still lunch and the 3pm party yet to go.
I’m glad I did an extra set of crunches this morning. Not enough to make a difference, really, but still a feel-good-exercise =p
There’s a multimedia remix of the Yellow Submarine movie, as an ebook, in the iTunes store currently, and it’s free even. Looks pretty cool so far, but I always loved that movie.
A big thanks to the Kirkland Performance Center for giving me free tickets, front row center, to a Lost Fingers show tonight. They do an energetic cross of 80′s pop with Django Reinhardt-esque acoustic guitar freakishness. And sometimes straight-up franco jazz swing standards I’d heard before from Frank Vignola. I came down with the start of a headache on the drive over, but once the show started, I was too entertained to notice. Three guys, two guitar and one stand-up bass. One of the guitarists was primary singer, the other was primary talker. The speed at which they all could play was quite impressive. The banter was witty, and the crowd receptive. There was one change of outfits during the intermission, and one encore. I think I heard they were staying around to sign and chat, but I really wanted to make sure I got to Chocolati before it closed, and the headache was making itself known again.
Amazon has a free album of Ike mp3′s, you should get on that.
Opening night of this year’s production of “Poona the Fuck Dog” will be free. I dunno how good the play is, but with a name like that, it’s gotta be up my alley, right? =p
I’ve been harping on Jeff Bezos, the kindle, and the lack of wishlist support (still not there), and swearing I wasn’t going to buy another paid book till they fixed it. And indeed, I’ve been using Project Gutenberg, and manybooks.net, to get my books for free, reading lots of classic lit that I never was willing to pay to read.
Anna K is a good book. Madame Bovary has been mostly underwhelming so far.
But today, I discovered the amazon tag “kindle freebies”. There are 24 pages of actual books, and a few sorta-cliff-notes-esque summary/bibliography collections. And they appear to really be free, though you have to assign a credit card to the transaction anyways. Apart from the summary collections, they appear to be decent quality and unabridged. I bought at least 2 dozen, including stuff like The Jungle, Treasure Island, and even some modern stuff like Red Mars. Of course, one of the first books I bought was the combo of Red Mars/Green Mars, so that one was more a curiosity.
There are a couple of romance novels by current authors, that seem to be available for free to get you hooked on the author. Hopefully more authors will try this.
So, it turns out that all the United mileage program mails I’ve been throwing out, unopened, have been trying to tell me that I have enough miles for a round-trip flight. Thinking I should try to take my balloon flight again somewhere, or maybe go visit Dad and play golf once the weather cools down a little…after the summer we’ve had in Seattle this year, I don’t think I could take shifting to Vega weather all at once.
