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Exasperation: When the library has almost all the volumes of a series you're reading, except the last one....

I was reading A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, but they don't have vol 09, aughhhh (wailing, gnashing of teeth).

This happened to me with Citrus, too. I should just get off my arse and put in an ILL request. Minorly inconvenient, but faster than asking the library to buy it. Note to self, do that.

(So frustrating, though!)

Misc +++

+ Came down with a cold yesterday. Spending time flopped on the couch isn't how I'd planned this weekend to go, but, well....

+ On the upside, I managed to get some writing done, and I'm really happy about it. This particular project is extremely self-indulgent (and very hot, but I repeat myself) so it's nice to make some progress with it, however small.

+ Random factoid: 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of organized judo in Canada. I had no idea it's been a thing over here that long. Neat!

+ My pal power_handmaiden made a resolution to read and review 365 works from Chuck Tingle's oevre this year. So far, they've kept at it. Tinglers aren't really my thing, but I've been finding their bite-sized reviews pretty fun, possibly due to being written by a genuine enthusiast. (Speaking of Chuck Tingle, it turns out my library had Camp Damascus, so I checked it out - now, this is one of his works that I'm curious about reading myself.)

+ The online introductory accounting course I signed up for started a couple of weeks ago. I was worried that I would struggle with it (compared to the Excel & Word courses I took last year) but so far it's going pretty well. I do have to make sure to take detailed notes and do every single example exercise, otherwise it's hard to retain the concepts, but... yeah, not too bad!

+ One of my plans this year is to organize and catalogue my yarn stash. I have no idea how well that's going to go. :V For some reason, I've never really clicked with Ravelry's stash organizer; I've made multiple attempts to use it, but no dice. This time, I think I'll try just putting the details in a spreadsheet, see where that gets me. It would be nice to at least have some idea of what the heck I own, anyhow.