Fair The County Fair is opening to the public tonight, and we're walking distance from it. What time is it? FRIED FOOD TIME! WHOOOOOOoooOOOOoOOOoOOOOoooOooo! Reading I'm now a fifth of the way through Wealth of Nations. I feel asleep reading it last night, so I've probably got to double back and skim. That's my problem with summer time: the heat just saps my energy. Since I read in the evening, it is a constant struggle to keep my focus. Coffee helps, but then I'm up till midnight and that leads to me getting my ass handed to me the next day at work. Which then means I'm more tired the next evening. I'm enjoying the bits of the book that aren't long tracts of accounting for the prices of silver and corn. Maybe I'll give audible a shot. Seems expensive, though. Project Gutenberg ebooks are free... Family My niece is going to Germany as an exchange student soon. My brother and his wife announced yesterday that they're having a Mandatory Family Dinner on Sunday for her. They've known that this meal would be happening for ages, but they have the planning horizon of a Labrador. They also haven't actually told me about it. They just told Mom and assumed she would disseminate The Word. Frustrating.
Are we secretly relatives? Also, enjoy some ridiculous fried food for us and report back. I hear fairs have crazy stuff like fried oreos and fried butter.They also haven't actually told me about it. They just told Mom and assumed she would disseminate The Word.Frustrating.
Apparently we all are. Time to stop calling meetups 'meetups' and start calling 'em 'reunions'? First night's report is rain. It runs until Sunday, though. Can't rain all the time, right? Funnel cake is my favorite fried fair food. Oreos are also good, as is cheese!Are we secretly relatives?
Also, enjoy some ridiculous fried food for us and report back. I hear fairs have crazy stuff like fried oreos and fried butter.
We all might be relatives. Everyone in my family has plans in their head, but they don't share them. Mom plans lunch at 12:30. Sister plans to arrive around 12:30-1:00 expecting to socialize for a while when she and her family arrive. Brother wants to have lunch at 1:30 because of jet lag. But nobody shares that with anybody and then they lament the stress of the holidays. And then they all act exasperated when I hammer home a plan in email after email, even when someone changed something in the previous email chain.
Dang. Are all us Hubskiers related? Everyone in my family thinks everyone else talks to each other way more than they actually do. Family Member: "So, are you and the wife coming tonight?" goobster: "Coming? To what?" FM: "The big thing we have been planning to do. People are flying in from all over the world for it." goobster: "The what?" FM: "OMG! Did nobody tell you?!? You are supposed to be getting the cake for your father's 80th surprise birthday party that is happening in 20 minutes!" goobster: "I.... WHAT?!?" FM: "Oh nevermind. Just come over. We'll figure it out." goobster: "Um. I'm in Canada. Camping. Building an ice hotel in Nunavut." FM: "Oh! How fun! Well, take pictures, and we'll get together when you get back." goobster: "..."
Check if your local library has partnered with Overdrive, or a similar app. You could also get audiobooks on CD from the library and copy them to your phone/iPod.
So they have! The only one I've tried before was hoopla, which I couldn't get to work at the time. I didn't realize they had additional partnerships, though. Thanks for getting me to check it out.Check if your local library has partnered with Overdrive
archive.org has a bunch of free audiobooks. As does Librivox. As does your local library. I can afford it and I like the interface but there are plenty of legal, free alternatives particularly when you're talking about public domain stuff. https://librivox.org/the-wealth-of-nations-book-1-by-adam-smith/ EDIT: in my rush to be helpful I failed to notice that devac made me irrelevant an hour before I woke up.
I always forget that they're not just the wayback machine. They have a physical copy audiobook of Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century that I've been eyeing for a while now. I forget about the digital stuff though. It's the future, man! Thanks for the suggestions. Many new catalogs to explore now.archive.org
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