Wish I was home...

Thanks for the well wishes last week. I'm still dealing with a cough, but the sore throat and fever seem to have passed. The doctor gave me some antibiotics and sent me for a chest x-ray yesterday. Still waiting to hear the results, but the most likely suspect is bronchitis. Speaking of results, my MRI found nothing, so nothing serious is wrong, but we still don't know why my ear is ringing.

Anyway, I'm at work today, until I get tired of it, then I'm going home to get ready for tonight's shire meeting.

Wish I was home...

Thanks for the well wishes last week. I'm still dealing with a cough, but the sore throat and fever seem to have passed. The doctor gave me some antibiotics and sent me for a chest x-ray yesterday. Still waiting to hear the results, but the most likely suspect is bronchitis. Speaking of results, my MRI found nothing, so nothing serious is wrong, but we still don't know why my ear is ringing.

Anyway, I'm at work today, until I get tired of it, then I'm going home to get ready for tonight's shire meeting.

PaperBackSwap.com

I've been trying out the PaperBackSwap .com recently. Not a bad little set up. The website could use some help, but the idea and operation is pretty good.

If you are not familiar with it, it is a website that allows you to get free books in exchange for sending out free books (you only pay for postage on books you sent). You need to list and send books to get credits. These credits in turn are used to request books. I put up about twenty books I'd been meaning to get rid of and requested a few I had on my wish lists (you get 3 free credits when you list your first 9 books). Those went fairly well, so I kept going. So far I've mailed out 8 books, and received 7 with two more on their way to me.

A few of the books I've added to my list were from the "collection" but ones which were very (very) low on the to be read list. I'll probably go through the shelves from time to time and see what else I can do away with, since I'm getting more desirable books in return.

They say they plan to start charging an annual fee some time in the future, but for now it's free.

PaperBackSwap.com

I've been trying out the PaperBackSwap .com recently. Not a bad little set up. The website could use some help, but the idea and operation is pretty good.

If you are not familiar with it, it is a website that allows you to get free books in exchange for sending out free books (you only pay for postage on books you sent). You need to list and send books to get credits. These credits in turn are used to request books. I put up about twenty books I'd been meaning to get rid of and requested a few I had on my wish lists (you get 3 free credits when you list your first 9 books). Those went fairly well, so I kept going. So far I've mailed out 8 books, and received 7 with two more on their way to me.

A few of the books I've added to my list were from the "collection" but ones which were very (very) low on the to be read list. I'll probably go through the shelves from time to time and see what else I can do away with, since I'm getting more desirable books in return.

They say they plan to start charging an annual fee some time in the future, but for now it's free.