A toast to blind luck. Very cool photographs.

OK, almost all mail sent (still have to send the package to parents, couldn’t find an open post office). TBPi essay written. NaNoWriMo word count is 1679, which is enough to keep me afloat.

Bought a notebook computer to facilitate easier NaNoWriMo and so I have portable computing power for group work, etc. However, there’s a broken scroll button and the battery refuses to charge, so I have to return it. It looks like there is no Office Depot in Atlanta with more of these in stock though, which is unfortunate because I think I otherwise like the computer. I’ll try to get it worked out tomorrow, but we’ll just have to see.

About the post office: I thought the post office ships on Saturdays. I visited two different post offices today, and one of them closes the retail window for the weekend, and the other is open only until 1300 on Saturdays. Of course, I arrive at five until two. So I have to ship the package on Monday now, taking time during my lunch hour to drive over to the Smyrna post office (which is thankfully close to where I work) and wait in line—there’s always a line—for ten minutes until I am helped. Then my package is sent. At least I got the thank-you notes out. For gifts received for my birthday. Which was two months ago. My stamps are from early my freshman year, which was when first class postage was still $0.34. I bought some $0.03 “kicker” stamps, but it looks like (upon counting today) I have one too few to use all the stamps. By the time I use the rest of them they’ll probably raise postage again anyways.