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It's been raining most of the day, and my ceiling is still dry. This is promising.

I'm planning to go to Phoenix this weekend, and on a work trip next week, and I was looking for books to take along. As far as I can tell, I'm down to 9 reasonably-portable paperback novels I haven't read yet (plus two volumes of Tolkien out-takes, which don't really count as novels). Of those, three are extra-fat fantasies, two are designated February purchases and so not officially backlog, and one requires something else in a hefty hardcover to be read first. That leaves Issola, The Winter Oak, and The Language of Power. I hope those will be sufficient for the week's travels. Clearly, I need to adjust the paperback/hardback ratio in my purchases, or start taking re-reads on trips, which I haven't done in years.

I found yet another reason today why I should have sprung for the Pro version of Acrobat 6. There are several useful bits of functionality that were in Acrobat 5 and aren't in the standard version of 6. The one I discovered today meant that I had to fire up Old Laptop when I got home, download my presentation from work, convert it to PDF, and upload it again. Fortunately it's only about 1Mb, so the asymmetric speed of the cable broadband didn't cause any problems.

My copy of the AAS calendar arrived today. Not sure what to do with it; we already have two calendars each on the office wall, and it isn't all that attractive overall.

Wrote one green and one blue card on the way to work this morning. This would-be novel has more backstory than frontstory at its present stage of development; personal past layered on history layered on legend layered on foundation myth. Probably I read Tolkien too much at an impressionable age.

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