04/16/04 FRI:
---Here today from Borderlands Press:
Lebbon, Tim FEARS UNNAMED: 4 Novellas, Borderlands '04, one of 350 SIGNED copies, (one original; also: White, Naming of Parts & and The Unfortunate), new in dj 40.00

---Tomorrow is city-wide junk pick-up day. At Amy’s behest I hoisted the thirty concrete cinder blocks we had so discretely stashed behind our garage out to the end of our driveway. Even with my two-wheeler it was a back tester. I hope they take it away. I also got rid of the cases of empty erstwhile returnables I used for the dozen or thirteen years I made homebrew. Sad to see it go, but the couple batches of explosive bottles produced toward the end--after such a succession of successful and succulent batches--made me think it might be a best to finally hang up my carboy. It is missed--the dead storebought (pasteurization mandated), even fancy microbrews or importeds, would never be able to replace it.

---Later today I have to crank up the lawnmower, also at Amy’s behest. Except for a few patches that are growing pretty good by now, I don’t quite see the need yet. But I know better by now than to think I have any veto power.