Friday night and the moon is bright

My latest stock dividend check was drawn on Mellon Bank in Pittsburg. I suppose it always has been, but this is the first time I noticed the name of the bank. I'm enough of a geek that it makes me smile. Mellon!

I read Guards! Guards! by Pratchett last month, and I forgot to mention when I did my book list something about it that I liked. It featured more promenantly than usual a certain Librarian (you may call him an ape and feed him bananas, but just don't use the monkey word in his presence...) and thus had some great library quotes:

The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has ever been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one of those that look as thought they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and have more staircases than storys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

and

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

I think I killed my blood sugar today. That was interesting. I had to give up on my exercise regimin after fifteen minutes or risk falling over. But I've been really enjoying the lecture series while I work out--am I a geek for thinking Indo-European is super cool? In the next lecture we move on to Anglo-Saxon, which is even better.

I'm in charge of the library the next two Saturdays, so no staying up late for me tonight. G'night, all. *blows kisses*