Wednesday

I've been barely half-awake all day, for no very obvious reason; there certainly weren't any clouds to blame.

When I was young, we used to have 'scrapbooks' with big (15"x10")? pages of heavy-duty construction paper; I used those for my postcard collection and records of special trips for years, but the last one I bought was in 1995-ish. These days, scrapbook seems to mean a heavily-embellished photo album maybe 12" square, and I wouldn't know where to start googling for the other kind.

Now you see it ...

Amazon's database is acting oddly. Specifically, the bit of it that determines whether items are in stock, available for pre-order, or not available, seems to be misbehaving. Two of the books in my Shopping Cart, due out later this year, suddenly started claiming not to be available a couple of days ago; now they're pre-orderable according to their product pages but won't actually appear in my cart. Meanwhile, books that aren't due out for a week or three pop up as 'In Stock' for a few days and then go back to 'available for pre-order.'

I'm just a little perturbed, speaking of Amazon, that there only seem to be about a dozen books I want to buy for the first half of next year. Still, between the New Backlog and rereading, I don't think I'm really going to run out of reading matter.