A Big Bad Box of Books

Izzie comes home from her day job with plans of a little serpent snooze before pottering off into the city to test out the new improved 30 bus route that now goes down the end of the street.
But this plan was dependent on the Froggies delivering the rent money because there's no point in slinking about in the city with only 8 silver sickles to spend until payday tomorrow afternoon.

But neither of them were lurking around the Lair so just curled up for a snooze without setting the alarm for 3pm or so. Didn't wake up until 4pm or so. It was very tempting to linger longer but it was a nice day - sunny but not too hot and certainly not to be wasted snoozing inside.
Decides to take a quick peek in Cyberia before going out into the garden, but first will have a coffee and nibblies sitting in the sunshine and peek in the amazing "Permaculture Design" book snaffled exactly a year ago in a second hand charity shop. It's still probably the bestest book bargain ever as in Australia a new copy costs $$70 plus and on Amazon the price is simply astronomical - twice that price in US dollars. They must be the only books that are infinitely more expensive there than here

It turned out that there was no need to drool over this most magical black book for there was a big bag outside the door. A big bad white Santa sack with a brown box inside where no brown box had any business to be. After all, it was less than two weeks ago when the serpent succumbed to the temptations of the book jungle of Amazon on Wednesday 10th.

And yesss it was the serpent name on the bag. The other inhabitants of the Lair also share the same Amazon addiction ;)
Made it a long drawn out ritual opening the bag and the box. In the end, got a knife and cheated

It contained two books, a deck of Necronomicon tarot cards and the whole reason for sending the order in the first place - 5 boxes of fabulous 50s style kitsch - the Housewives Tarot
They had been half price for a limited time and the offer was just too good to refuse.
A seriously undomesticated serpent could just not go past this deck of domestic divination. And it turns out that the steak is even better than the sizzle.
The cards come in the cutest box replete with pretty pictures of housewives offering testimonials and there's little divider cards with recipes on them
But the 7 of wands being a pretty pink porcelain toilet surrounded by seven toothbrushes was just a touch of sheer sadistic evilness.

The Hierophant turns out to be a television and the magician is a washing machine salesman. It really should have been Kirby vacuum cleaners he was spruiking as at least washing machines are a useful and practical household gadget
These cards have been seriously thought out and not just squeezed and stretched to fit the relevant theme like so many of those recent vampire themed cards

So, Izzie's already got a whole bunch of Christmas and Birthday prezzies sorted out. It's amazing how many folks out there who love 50s kitsch and many of them like tarot too

And it's yet another sneaky way of procrastinating concerning the minor matter of that deck that Izzie is supposed to be designing
Now that the list of the last 1000 days has ended, it's time to start work on the next one to start in May

Other crazy stuff has been going on at work but will save that sad drama for another day.
PS Can't post linkies to the crazy cards as Google has gone all stupid. Now all the students are coming back and there's hoardes of them living around here, the local 3 ISP is back to being on a go slow.

A Big Bad Box of Books

Izzie comes home from her day job with plans of a little serpent snooze before pottering off into the city to test out the new improved 30 bus route that now goes down the end of the street.
But this plan was dependent on the Froggies delivering the rent money because there's no point in slinking about in the city with only 8 silver sickles to spend until payday tomorrow afternoon.

But neither of them were lurking around the Lair so just curled up for a snooze without setting the alarm for 3pm or so. Didn't wake up until 4pm or so. It was very tempting to linger longer but it was a nice day - sunny but not too hot and certainly not to be wasted snoozing inside.
Decides to take a quick peek in Cyberia before going out into the garden, but first will have a coffee and nibblies sitting in the sunshine and peek in the amazing "Permaculture Design" book snaffled exactly a year ago in a second hand charity shop. It's still probably the bestest book bargain ever as in Australia a new copy costs $$70 plus and on Amazon the price is simply astronomical - twice that price in US dollars. They must be the only books that are infinitely more expensive there than here

It turned out that there was no need to drool over this most magical black book for there was a big bag outside the door. A big bad white Santa sack with a brown box inside where no brown box had any business to be. After all, it was less than two weeks ago when the serpent succumbed to the temptations of the book jungle of Amazon on Wednesday 10th.

And yesss it was the serpent name on the bag. The other inhabitants of the Lair also share the same Amazon addiction ;)
Made it a long drawn out ritual opening the bag and the box. In the end, got a knife and cheated

It contained two books, a deck of Necronomicon tarot cards and the whole reason for sending the order in the first place - 5 boxes of fabulous 50s style kitsch - the Housewives Tarot
They had been half price for a limited time and the offer was just too good to refuse.
A seriously undomesticated serpent could just not go past this deck of domestic divination. And it turns out that the steak is even better than the sizzle.
The cards come in the cutest box replete with pretty pictures of housewives offering testimonials and there's little divider cards with recipes on them
But the 7 of wands being a pretty pink porcelain toilet surrounded by seven toothbrushes was just a touch of sheer sadistic evilness.

The Hierophant turns out to be a television and the magician is a washing machine salesman. It really should have been Kirby vacuum cleaners he was spruiking as at least washing machines are a useful and practical household gadget
These cards have been seriously thought out and not just squeezed and stretched to fit the relevant theme like so many of those recent vampire themed cards

So, Izzie's already got a whole bunch of Christmas and Birthday prezzies sorted out. It's amazing how many folks out there who love 50s kitsch and many of them like tarot too

And it's yet another sneaky way of procrastinating concerning the minor matter of that deck that Izzie is supposed to be designing
Now that the list of the last 1000 days has ended, it's time to start work on the next one to start in May

Other crazy stuff has been going on at work but will save that sad drama for another day.
PS Can't post linkies to the crazy cards as Google has gone all stupid. Now all the students are coming back and there's hoardes of them living around here, the local 3 ISP is back to being on a go slow.