Bookstore crawl

[flexagon]

Last night, after wanting to go all week, I headed to Avenue Victor Hugo to buy used books to read on the airplane... and got there 3 minutes after it closed. I did my sniveling quickly and efficiently ("shit... shit!!"), then headed across the street to Trident, where I pretty handily found quite a few cool books, including some new SF hardcovers that have been the stuff of conversation over on the sffworld forums lately. I resisted those though, not wanting to spend that much or lug hardcovers all over Europe. What I ended up buying was The War for the Oaks, a precursor to modern urban fantasy highly recommended by Neil Gaiman, for me, and City Come A'Walkin, a precursor to modern cyberpunk highly recommended by William Gibson, for HLM... and the current issue of mental_floss, which I've been meaning to try out. (Yes, they do have an underscore in their name but not their URL. Yes, that is odd.)

I had weird dreams, apparently, because I woke up wondering "why is it called bar-hopping but pub crawling? Are pubs that much slower?" which is a good question but not one I usually think about in my sleep. Ah well, I'm feeling pretty sane now. Had a good lifting session yesterday, and today's my last day at work before vacation, which means last chance to leave code in a reasonable state. Okay, I'm on it, I'm on it. :)