Blah. And Blah.

Going along fine this morning, reading stories, surfing the 'Net, and my laptop shuts down. No warning, no nothing, just fzzzzz and a dark screen. It's done this once before, a few months ago -- apparently it's a glitch with it getting too hot. Which, of course, it shouldn't. So.

Blue jays are taking fluttery baths in the bird dish. Some of them get really soaked.

Not much else right now.

Something Cool

A little site called Bookseer.com, which recommends what to read. You enter the title and author of the last book you've read, and Bookseer gives you some suggestions. I entered Drew Gilpin Faust's This Republic of Suffering, and here's what Bookseer recommended:

* 2666 by Roberto Bolano
* The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
* The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
* The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson
* Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia by Roberto Saviano
* Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
* The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
* D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
* Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
* Home by Marilynne Robinson

I've already read one of these (Netherland), 2666 is actually in the other room, waiting to be read, and several of the others are on my "to-read" list.

Via one of my favorite blogs, Presurfer.