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This may not be the best entry I'll ever make. I don't have a specific topic in mind, but I really feel that I have to get an entry up. Weird. Maybe it's just because it's a slow day.

I finished the massive book that I've been reading in dribs and drabs for probably going on a year now. It's a good feeling to finish a 1100+ page book, close the cover, and just take a deep breath. Now I have to decide which of the couple dozen books I have on the shelf that I keep meaning to get to I'll start on next. Whole lotta non-fiction books (and I just got a new one in the mail last week!), and Liz has about ninety fiction books that I haven't read and would probably enjoy.

So anyway...

This could be tough. I could talk about how we're leaving work early today because the state tax people (commissioners of revenue, whatever) actually cut us a break tax-wise, but Liz already covered that. Yesterday, even.

We're going up to the Blacksburg/Christiansburg/Radford conglomerate city area this weekend to visit some friends, and that should be fun, even if I'm not really sure what we're going to be doing. Gaming, I think, but last I heard it wasn't a definite. It'll be kind of neat to get out of town for a bit and just relax. Of course, it'll be more relaxing for me than for Liz, since she's going to drive us both down there & back. We talked about getting a rental car to drive up there & back on so I could help out with the driving, but Liz sort of felt that she just wasn't going to feel comfortable with being a passenger, so we're taking her car up there and back, and she'll be driving up there and back. I sort of feel bad about it, but since there's literally nothing I can do (other than going full-bore ludicrous and buying us plane tickets), I'm not going to worry about it too much.

Hmph. Web access here at work just sort of dried up and blew away all of a sudden. That kinda sucks.

I'm having a bit of a dilemma. An amazon.com dilemma, to be precise. There's at least one book, and a few CDs that I'd like to get my grubby little hands on. I've mentally calculated it all, and it'll come to about $70. Probably closer to $80 once you figure in shipping and handling. Now, that's not going to break me. Logically, I know that. But emotionally.... Emotionally I've been kicking this idea around for the past two weeks or more. Almost definitely more. Why?!

Well, I know the answer to that. It's kinda irrational, but sort of super-rational at the same time. It's because I keep forseeing all these other expenses coming up that I really can't dodge for too much longer. My shoes need replacing. Badly. I really have to go to the eye doctor soon and get a new pair of glasses, probably before Tristan's wedding would be best -- in both the pictures for my wedding my face looks funny because my glasses are kinda beat up and sit oddly on my face because the nosepads are missing. And I have to go to the regular doctor. Nothing important, but I haven't had a regular physical for about, um, 7 years? And I probably should drop in, just to make sure all the arms and legs are going to stay where they are. You know, sort of get the 3,000 mile oil change, except I've logged closer to 30,000 miles. Smile, nod, and hope it isn't too bad. And my six-month dentist appointment is about a month away, in mid-April. And we're going to moving As Soon As Possible into the house (still August/ October wafflings here, mostly due to the builder not having started yet, despite the fact that we signed papers in early-mid February).

But I really think that all of that is going to be fine. I've got health insurance, and while that won't cover most of the optometry hoo-hah, it will handle a lot of the regular doctor and dentist stuff.

Oh, well. We get paid today. Maybe I'll look at the balance in the register and decide I can stand it after all. We'll see.