I got my royalty check today, which is always exciting. I get to see how many copies of my books sold, and rake in the profits.
The check was for $7.09
Hmm. Clearly I should not give up my day job just yet.
The Rodent's Burrow: Gelled colloid versus stainless steel
I'm reminded of an experience in college. I had a glass-front stereo cabinet. One day, while I happened to be looking at the cabinet, the glass door shattered. There was no impact, it just shattered. And, to make it more exciting, all the little pieces shattered afterwards. In fact, for nearly an hour, I watched while pieces spontaneously shattered into smaller pieces. Kinda like watching corn pop, only not.
I still don't really have any clue why that happened, nor have I encountered anyone who has had a similar experience. It was very very bizarre.
UPDATE: 68 comments so far, mostly from people who have experienced this same phenomenon. See especially THIS COMMENT which contains a fairly good explanation of why this happened.
I found a cache today that was truly devious. It took more than an hour to find it, and when I found it, I simply could not believe how evil it was. It humbles me to think of my pathetic attempt to hide caches, when people put this much time and effort into hiding caches and making it a real challenge.
No, of course, I'm not going to tell you, and ruin it for anyone. Sheesh.
In fact, I was leaving, after 45 minutesof looking, when another cacher showed up, so I decided to stick around. One feels slightly less silly wandering around when there's someone else there wandering around too.
Just had a 20 minute power outage, for no apparent reason. And it came back on, with no apparent explanation. Calling the electric company demonstrated that there is now no way to get to speak to a real person, so all I got was that there was a crew on the way out - who never arrived. So I have no idea what that was about. Apparently it was only this building, as all our neighbors had power. This gets very tedious after a while.
I attended the Cache-in Trash-out event at Veteran's Park this weekend. Although we were not able to stay very long, I did get some pictures, and we did take out a bag of trash. By the end, we had filled up an entire dump truck with trash. I have a picture of that too, but it just hasn't made it up onto the web site yet.
