Swoon!

I've been cataloging my books since elementary school.

Yes, I was a weird enough child to be painstakingly printing (by *hand* -- these were the Dark Ages of the early 1970's) Title, Author, and Subject 3x5 cards for my several-hundred book library.

In gradeschool.

Getting a computer gave me access to Microsoft Works and my first exposure to a database program. Oh joy! I could not cross-reference to my heart's content, update easily, delete easily. Excel later replaced Works. I would spend entire days creating a new database, classifying, sorting, re-shelving my library.

But today, my friend bookchick, who is a gen-u-wine library-degree-person, shared Readerware: a book cataloging program that is customizable.

And it has has sister programs for CD's and DVD's.

All of which can be downloaded to one's Palmpilot, thus eliminating the need to ever again stand in front of an intriguing book/album/movie scratching my head and wondering "Did I already buy that. . . ???"

I am in a veritable agony of expectation, waiting until my next payday. . . !!

How I'm Spending My Friday Night

The Ex's sister is getting married tomorrow, and he and the SO are invited to the bachelor/bachelorette parties.

They asked me to babysit the twins. (Who are only two days younger than the Ex's and my daughter.)

Sure, I said.

Sometimes you have to take one for the team.

So tonight it's Digiorno Stuffed Crust Pepperoni Pizza for four, and a viewing of Disney's Princess of Thieves (starring Kiera Knightley), a fun girl-power movie the twins haven't seen and my daughter and I haven't watched in a long time.

And then I get to shepherd all three of them through bathtime.

I think I should get out the incense to offer to the tempermental water elementals in my house now.