Stuff

• I have decided I just can’t be bothered to go on with the "Buffy" series from Netflix. Yes, I love the cheeky dialog but, well, I just can’t get over the total implausibility of the whole thing!  So, before I put this one out to go back, I need to hop over there to check my queue.
• I subscribe to two groups, my local freecycle and a Kindle one called {rather annoyingly cutesy} KindleKorner. There are generally 12 to 15 emails a day from each group although with the announcement of the new Kindle, the traffic on KK has increased. I generally read through them quickly, write the occasional comment and delete. But much to my surprise, yesterday there was a total absence of email from either group. I thought at first it was Fair Point problems. There has been a lot in the local paper and on TV about the email problems some people have been having but until this yesterday, I have had no problems. However, I found out this morning via a message from a freecycler whose husband is picking up something from me tomorrow that she has been getting messages from Yahoo that emails sent to me are bouncing! So, I hop over to Yahoo and check my account to find that somehow, my primary address, the fairpoint one, has "not been verified." This means they send me an email and I click on their link. Now, I remember doing that. I can’t go back to check because with the exception of my family, I delete emails immediately and trash is emptied when I close Thunderbird, So, anyway, I jump through their hoops yet one more time, and everything seems back to normal with emails from those groups popping in at intervals… So, we shall see.
• Steven King has a new novella written especially for the Kindle. I couldn’t resist buying it this morning even though I stopped reading King several years ago. I decided that I didn’t need to pay good money to be harrowed and frightened. And once I start reading his books, I have to finish because I find his writing compulsively readable. But I decided to get this one because {a} it is short {B} it is cheap –$2.99 and {c} it was written especially to go along with the issuing of the Kindle2! The book is called  UR.
• We are having company on Saturday. I told Fred this morning that this was my last day of freedom. Housecleaning starts tomorrow!  I do clean up when it is only us two, but I don’t feel pressured to do so unless company is coming!
• I watched "Top Chef" last night and was so pleased to see Fabio do so well and go through to the finals. I gave an audible gasp when he broke his little finger! So, now it is Fabio, Stephan, Hosea and one woman, Carla, battling it out in New Orleans next week. It would be hard for me to choose unless I could do it on the basis of cuteness, in which case it would be Fabio! He is Italian, good looking and has a lovely accent!
• It is raining and washing the snow away. However, since this is Vermont, I feel sure there will be more snow…

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