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Free Gift with Purchase
August 31st, 2008
After work today I was walking past Angus’s. And, as usual, I couldn’t resist the urge to walk in. I can never seem to pass a book store without going in.
I told myself the same thing I do everytime I enter a bookstore – “You’re just LOOKING, you have a long TBR stack at home already, You DO NOT need more books… Just yet.”
So, I look around for a while. There are a few books I’ve come across on my internetting recently that I’d like to read, so I thought I’d see if any of them were in stock… Abandoning my ‘do not buy’ decision as soon as the first whiff of published pages hits my nostrils.
I’m having a look along the shelves when I notice that they now have a couple of Neil Gaiman’s books stocked. And as I recently read and loved The Sandman, I’d been thinking about giving one of his books a go.
But which one??
As it turns out I had a choice between two books – American Gods, which was over 600 pages long, or Stardust at a slim 200 odd pages.
Guess which one I chose…
That’s it, the short one. Maybe if I enjoy Stardust I’ll have a go at American Gods. It does sound pretty interesting.
I saw the movie of Stardust not too long ago and thought it half decent. So I’ll at very least have a half decent read in front of me.
The odd thing, though…
When I was paying for my book, the guy throws in a ’special gift’. I’m not sure exactly what it was promoting or why we’re getting such odd gifts from book stores nowadays, but I got an itty bitty little tub of Anti-aging cream.
Oh well, I thought, Momma always said Free is as free does.
So I gave it a go, I tried a little on my cheek. But I think I got a dud batch because now I have a little mutant sticking out of my face that keeps yelling ‘Quaid…start the reactor!”
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Behold! A New Couch!
June 4th, 2008
When my futon died last week, I thought it could never be replaced… At least not cheap.
But I found a nice little couch that folds down and all.
Today I picked it up.
I’d like you all to meet my butt’s new best friend -
I call her Couch.
Coming Soon
November 14th, 2007
Coming Soon – - – www.JeremyBoland.com
That’s right. My own domain. Can you say KICK-ASS!!??
Last night / this morning when I was avoiding writing again. (even though I came up with a couple of ideas of where to take my NaNo story and even though I’m about 15,000 words behind.) I, for some reason that eludes me momentarily, decided to look up how much domain names and web hosting cost. It turns out that it’s a lot cheaper than the last time I checked into it – about 4 or 5 years ago.
I almost impulse bought my domain name but somehow I’ve gained a small amount of self control somewhere along the way and so I managed to hold myself off jumping and decided to sleep on it (unfortunately my insomnia is still hanging over me right now and so it was more ’shut eyes on it’ than ’sleep on it’)
now you may be asking the same question that I asked myself. – What the hell do I need my own name in dot.com highlights? well the answer is – cause I wanna! leave me alone, you’re just jealous.
then around 8:00 this morning, when I sat down to write again, I thought ‘well, hey, if I have my own domain then I’m going to have to write a website for it.
so instead of putting in a hard days game of catch up as I’d planned, I instead spent the day playing around with YGen and it’s sample files – in the process, learning how to write html. (well, not on any professional level but I don’t have to copy link codes just to make links anymore) and when I realised that I’d made one pretty kick ass site. Well, then I decided to throw down some dosh on my own triple-double-u.
so, that being said, keep an eye out for www.JeremyBoland.com
Cheers!
Happy Birthday to ME!!
November 13th, 2007
I’d like you all to meet my BITCHIN new desk.
(photo taken with my bitchin new camera)