it's like I can't stay in one place for very long

It's really starting to look like we'll be moving soon, altho R. continues to be skeptical of our closing date.

Since it is Saturday, and the dump is open while R. is not working, today we removed stuff from the house to the transfer station. Also, it was electronics recycling day, which we have been waiting for for a while. Between that, some clothing and random crap, we got several boxes full out the door. Yay us.

Best of all, there are (soon to be were) some bins freed up by this activity, so I can pack some stuff up, either things loose on the basement shelving, or things we won't need prior to the move. Every little bit helps. I'm waiting on a bid from Gentle Giant after spending several hours putting together an inventory. Which was pretty frightening and a strong motivator to push hard on getting rid of stuff we don't really want to keep anyway.

If I can get my act together, I can get some more baby gear out, too. We know two people who are pregnant, and another FOAF who is pregnant. I am optimistic about being able to unload a lot of clothes, altho it will be just my luck that no one will know they are expecting a girl (one knows they are expecting a boy), and we'll have to hold onto the pink stuff for a while yet.

Fail! Brilliant idea, not currently implementable

Bear with me for a moment while I go completely off the deep end.

Once upon a time, I was a Jehovah's Witness. Actually, for quite a while. JW's do the whole congregate thing three times a week, and do other Bible-related things some additional number of days a week (which might be 0 and might be 4). JW's are a very text-oriented crew, so they buy bookbags and crap to cart their bible, songbook, watchtower, awake, tracts, OKM, current Bible Study publication, etc. around to these various theological/evangelical activities.

I have, in the 15 years since being a JW, unloaded most of the paperwork. I kept a Kingdom Interlinear that belonged to Grandma Mae and maybe one or two other things (and I had volumes of WT and A that went back forever). However, I keep some Bibles around the house, along with some other holy scripture because you never know when someone is going to quote something and you want to check it out. While the web is increasingly teh awesome for these purposes, there are some translations that are still non-trivial to get hold of. My personal faves are the current JPS Tanakh, the NRSV and Moffatt's New Testament. I have others. I like Ahmed Ali's Al-Qur'an and I'll stop now because even my eyes are glazing over and I can barely bring myself to mention all the commentaries I own.

Other people like to be able to compare multiple translations. There are 4x on a page Bibles. There are 3 Koran translations bundled for the kindle. There are websites that do quite magical things. So I figure, hey, I could get back a lot of shelf space _and_ have fully searchable editions if I just buy all the stuff I like for the kindle. I'd pay a premium over full price for the privilege (especially since it's hard to find small format Bibles, and they cost a bundle to make that thin paper and readable tiny font).

Alas, it is not yet possible to pack a kindle full of everything you could possibly want to bring to church with you (much less a Kingdom Hall). Maybe someday. . .

Baen Books rocks my little world

I have mentioned their freebies, and their not-crazy-expensive ebooks in many formats.

What I _not_ realized is that when I bought _At All Costs_ a few years back and got a CD in the book, it had a godawful number of ebooks on it (like, the entire Honor Harrington series, being the relevant part, but all the Weber I can think of except _Path of the Fury_).

Keen.

I can now purge the paper, and still have the books. I have not decided whether to be cruel and keep the CD when I list _At All Costs_ on the swap site. I think I will, because I only yanked the .PRCs for my kindle, but there are a ton of other formats on that disk.