The percentage of the last 20 books I have read that are available on Kindle holds steady at 45%. I’ve said I will officially want one after this percentage is more than 50%.
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As I’ve done after the last couple of books I’ve finished, I’ve gone and looked to find out how many of the last 20 books I’ve read are available on Kindle. Last time it was 7 out of 20. This time it is up to 9. The book I just read is available, but in addition some of the previous books I’d read that were not available before, now are. So we’re up to 45%. I’ve been saying since the Kindle 1 came out that I’ll “officially want one” once this ratio was greater than 50%. We’re getting close. But not quite there yet. :-)
Just got a Zillow update in my email. The above is the decline in the value of our house in Florida since we sold it. Ouch! I’d hate to be the guy who bought it from us! It dropped another 8% just in the last 30 days according to Zillow, and the the chart doesn’t look like it has bottomed yet.
Amy brought home a bright pink flyer from school Thursday saying that there is a diagnosed case of swine flu at her school. Joy. It seems it is one of the teachers. Of course, despite reports of a 4th death in the last 24 hours, the US death rate has been hovering at about 1 in 1000 for most of the last week. Which if I read Wikipedia correctly is about the average for an regular old fashioned influenza epidemic. But we still got the bright pink flyer reminding everybody that if their kid is sick they should KEEP THEM HOME. Which is of course what you are supposed to do ANYWAY. It isn’t swine flu specific. They did however add that if you DO send your kid to school, and they appear to be sick, they will call you to come get them ASAP. If Brandy’s car is totaled, perhaps we should get her this one?
A week ago Tuesday while Brandy and Amy were somewhere and the Nissan was parked nicely in the parking lot a teenage boy in his pickup truck with a damaged bumper tried to park next to it, and in the process wedged their damaged bumper in the Nissan’s wheel well. The kid did come into the place Brandy was and ask who owned the Nissan, which is good. Going back out, it became clear that the two cars were jammed together but nice. In the end they had to jack up Brandy’s car before the truck could pull away. But when all was said and done, there was the nice rip in the car that you see above. At some point, the boy’s mom showed up. According to Brandy, one of the first things out of her mouth to her son was “You have GOT to stop hitting things!” Soon after was “I told you to get that bumper fixed!” Insurance information was exchanged. Brandy got one estimate last week, and a second estimate this week. Problem. It is an old car with more than 200K miles on it. This is body work. Body work that requires replacing a large panel. The lower of the two estimates is close to the book value of the car. The other estimate is a decent bit more than the value of the car. The conversation with the insurance company will be tomorrow most likely. There is a good chance they will just call the car totaled. The car runs absolutely perfectly. But the stupid body damage is more than the value. This sucks.
About an hour ago we got out of the latest ultrasound… It’s a boy! And everything else looked normal and as expected for this stage as well. So all is well! September here we come… Oh yeah… Mail.app appeared to have recovered completely no problem. And in significantly less time that it first estimated. So all is good. Woo. It seems sometime a few hours ago power went out at my house, just for a few seconds. But it was enough. It seems when my computer came back up, my mail index or something was all screwed up. Apple’s lovely little mail program is now working on reimporting my last 12+ years of email. 23K messages done so far out of 2.2M emails in my archive. Wow. 2.2 Million emails? Now, of course, quite a lot of those are spam. And a lot are duplicates accidentally created at various points over the years. But whatever. At the moment it is saying 22 more hours to complete reimporting my mail. I hope it succeeds in a happy way that leaves everything the way I would expect. If not, it will be time for my first really important test of Time Machine. I am somewhat impatient and tempted to just try that restore rather than waiting 22 hours, but I figure I’ll let Mail.app do what it wants first. |
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