I fixed the washing machine today, I went home for lunch. It's been broken for about two weeks. If I didn't get it fixed, I was probably going to have to go to work commando.

Late.

The woman who owns the house I'm renting came by tonight to tell me she's selling the house. In six weeks. Super stress.

Late.

Cool new search site from Amazon called A9.com.


7 Reasons to Use A9.com
Search Inside the Book™: In addition to web search results we present book results from Amazon.com that include Search Inside the Book. When you see an excerpt on any of the book results, click on the page number to see the actual page from that book. (You will need to be registered at Amazon.com.)

Adjustable Columns: Simply drag the boundaries between the columns either to the left or the right to change their width of the different result sets (web, books, history). You can also close any column at any time. The next search will remember these new settings (if you allow cookies). This feature currently does not work on all browsers (but we're working on it!).

URL Short Cuts: At A9.com you can search directly from the browser URL box by typing:

a9.com/query

Search History: All your searches at A9.com are stored on our servers and shown to you at any time from any computer you use. Clicking on a link performs the search again. You can hide the window at any time and a password will be required to open it again. You can edit your history, for example, to hide an entry.

Click History: If any of the web search results include a site that you have seen before, it's marked on the result. We even tell you the last time you visited that site.

Site Info: Place the cursor on one of the Site Info buttons to see a lot more information about that site without leaving the search result page.

Web Search: Web search results are provided by Google.

I installed the Google toolbar a few months ago, and it's great. I highly recommend it. I found myself wishing for a similar toolbar for a dictionary/thesaurus. I went to my favorite dictionary site, dictionary.com, to write a suggestion that they develop one, and right there on the main page, there it was, the Dictionary.com Toolbar. I installed it and it works great.

Isn't it cool when that happens?

Late.

I haven't been updating the Blog or the books section as often as I'd intended. All the travel has been putting a dent in my free time. I have to find a better way to update the books, I have to rebuild the tables from the top down every time I make an addition. Maybe a blog-type list would be better. It would certainly be easier to update.

Late.

Spend all day answering all the emails I've received. Finished my income taxes. Didn't get out of the house except to have lunch.

Late.

Today is my 40th birthday. Wow. I was sure that my life would be completely different at this stage. I took the week off work to wind down from all the traveling I've been doing, and to catch up on errands and stuff around the house. Tomorrow I'm house shopping all day.

Late.