Hooray!

Today mom asked if there was anything I wanted to do, it being break, and she wanting to do something for me like she did for my bro when he was here on his leave. I said I'd like to buy Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis so I could have a permanent copy to read. She said okay, so I went with her to do some errands and whatnot, ending at Borders. After a slight detour of discovering that our tire was dangerously close to exploding at even the slightest jarring (thank goodness I noticed it was half flat) and replacing it, we made it to Borders. I found not just one Lewis book I wanted, but this collection of like 6 books, including The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Miracles (the other of his I really wanted), and A Grief Observed. Mom felt particularly keen and got the whole thing for me, plus a cd I saw and liked. So now I have a reading load to last me quite a while, and some good music to rock out to. "Kicking it old school, as they say....and I never will again."

Asciirific

I don't know how many people already know about this, but there is this thing that one can do with the Alt key to have any representable ascii character show up without any fancy work. Simply holding down Alt, then typing in the numeric value will show the character. Interestingly enough though, in ICQ, nothing with the number 3 in it will work without immediately shutting the current window. It doesn't do it in AIM though. How very odd.