Hacking at the weeds

After a long time of inactivity, I've decided that it's time to start selling books and such on eBay again, in an effort to weed the collection a bit and to raise a bit of money for Christmas or for buying power tools for myself. You never know...but there's a new eBay button in the sidebar (down below the link to my Flickr stream). Maybe there's something there that's perfect for the reader in your family!

BUY!!!

I'm selling some stuff, mostly books, on eBay. My current auctions are linked in the sidebar. There's some good stuff there! Buy! Now!!

Where there's swill, there's a way

That may be the worst pun I've ever used in a blog post title, but anyway, I just happened across a website called Swillparty.com, which turns out to be a Buffalo/WNY site devoted to social wine tasting. Apparently SWILL is an acronym, standing for "Several Wine Imbibers Liking Libations".

They've got a wine blog (already bookmarked for the next update of the blogroll), and they've even come up with a nifty-looking kit for getting your own wine-tasting parties together, along with several other items of merchandise. So, if you're local and you're looking for wine-tasting stuff, keep your money local and buy from them. And if you're not local, buy from them anyway, because your locality doesn't need the money as much as Western New York does! I'm not quite the wine drinker I used to be -- beer, rum (Spum! Vrum!), and Southern Comfort are my poisons of choice these days, although I do enjoy wine and I've got a half-bottle (or whatever the technical term is for a 375-ml bottle) of Sauternes that I'm keeping for consumption when I make my first professional fiction sale. (Although at the rate I'm going, that bottle will be too valuable to drink when that day comes....)

I found this site, incidentally, by exercising an old online pseudo-hobby of mine, namely, Googling names of people I've gone to school with. Turns out that the founding SWILLer, Anne Conroy-Baiter, is one of those old friends with whom I lost touch years ago. (It also turns out that she's apparently quite the watercolorist, which is something I don't recall knowing about her at all from high school. I could really learn to like this Interweb thingie!

Buy. Buy. Buy.

Hey, wanna buy some books? I've just listed a few on eBay, with more to come in the next few weeks. There's a link in the sidebar. Do it for the trees.

He giveth, and he getteth riddeth to make room for what he receiveth

It's time to make room on the shelves floor next to the shelves for newer acquisitions (like these), so I'll now be putting old books of mine up on eBay. There's a link over there in the sidebar, in the section labeled "Support your humble narrator". There will be more things appearing there over the next week as well; I've identified quite a few books to go as well as some music to which I rarely listen anymore.

Go forth and buy stuff for the person in your life whose tastes mirror mine!

(But not me. If you want to do that, just give me the money directly. There are links to do that as well, if that's your thing.)