Getting ready to face the world...

I'm having the morning cup of coffee, getting ready to head down toward Lewisville. I'm going to try to sell the rest of the books in the back of my car down at Half-Price Books. Hopefully they'll at least take some of them and get me enough money to be able to pay both the rent and either the car payment or the car insurance, at least. It would be wonderful if I got enough money to pay both, but I'm really not counting on that.

Prior to heading down there, I thought I'd check out the job listings in the Sunday paper I picked up last night, just to see if there was anything good that direction that I could hit on the way down or back. And as I was looking for the classified section, I saw a picture that looked kind of familiar. I sort of wondered if they were so desperate for something to print that they were re-running stories. But, no, it turns out that I bought the Sunday paper not from last night, but from last week. That's what Walgreen's had out on their display. I'm not terribly happy about that, but I don't think I'm going to head in there and demand a refund or anything. Next time, I might just make a few pointed comments, but I have enough other things to do to try to find work to not stress that much over that. I've got to stop at the gas station anyway, so I'll see if they still have a copy of the right paper...

In reading my mail this morning, I heard that J.G. Ballard died. He wrote some really weird sci-fi stories, many of which I really enjoyed. "Billennium", "The Terminal Beach", and "The Garden of Time" come to mind, but I know that I've read several of his short story collections and liked them a lot. I just can't remember all of the quirky details right now. He wrote what almost seemed to be hallucinations put down on paper, and it's rather sad to see the loss of one of the really original minds out there. I need to go back and read more of his work...

Anyway, I guess I should quit stalling and get my coffee chugged down so I can get out into the world...