The best thing about today

[ellarien]

was walking into the campus bookstore and coming face-to-face with a display of a Patrick O'Brian book whose existence I had never previously suspected; The Road to Samarcand, copyright 1954 but never before published in the USA. So a copy of that came home with me. A little Amazon-digging suggests there are at least a few more where that one came from, too.

Otherwise, it's been miserably hot and sticky, with clouds building up but no rain and only a few distant, dubious mutters of thunder.