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[Jane]

Years after my son finished med school I found down in the basement an expensive edition of one of those CIBA anatomy books, he had checked out of the med school library that he had never returned, so thank goodness I was able to mail it back to them.

[Linda]

Terri wrote: "Oh for sure! {{{HUGSSSSSS}}} :D"

Same here!

[Linda]

Kimber wrote: "Terri wrote: "Gack! dealing with this again.
okay, last call...:)

Dear members
I'm not sure how many more times Derek is going to create profiles and keeping kicking this dead horse. I had to dele..."

Be well soon, Kimber!

[ECH]

Well since we're confessing...

When I was in elementary school (first or second grade I think) I checked out a copy of Matilda from my school's library. When they told me it hadn't been returned, I was sure I had returned it and got very upset, insisting that they must have made a mistake. So they took it off my account and didn't fine me for it. A couple of years later I found the copy. I was too embarrassed to go back and admit my mistake. In fact I'm still too embarrassed, but I do feel very guilty.

[Allison]

I am shocked, SHOCKED at the behavior in here :D

Never stole a library book, that's never entered my mind actually. But I did "accidentally" take home pens and envelope sealers from my last job. The last sealer I had recently ran out and I'm horrified I might have to start licking my own envelopes. Eww.

My parents raised such a rebel :)

[Allison]

Meant to say yesterday:

So sorry to hear of your struggle Kimber. Keep your chin up and we are all here for you!

[Kimber]

Thanks guys! *hugs* to you all and no worries..I'm not going anywhere. :D

[Lisa]

Andy Andy Andy! We are a funny lot really. Not long ago someone finally did the family tree think on my Irish side of the family, and I was very excited to discover our criminal convict past. It was a woohoo moment, hahahaha.

But I'm not confessing, no way........

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Andy wrote: "Its in yer genes Terri, you couldnt help it ;D..."

Oh a convict joke. that's cute. ;)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Deborah wrote: "I guess I have just been really lucky with libraries in general the experience was completely new to me!

Regarding stealing from libraries... Ok, here comes one of my most shameful little secrets,..."

St Kilda Library is still very trusting. But maybe only with long term members now. I've been a member now for nearly 20 years. A couple of times I've returned books that have disappeared and they've always taken my word for it.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Deborah wrote: "
What were the books you loved so much you could not part with them? ..."

They were bird books. Photographic non fiction books on Raptors and a bird identification book.

I am still a bird watcher to this day. A twitcher. And now an amateur bird photographer. I still flick through those books. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Oh come on, Lisa, we're taking confessions. Clear your conscience. Confess! No library books in your past that you never took back?????

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I just woke up this morning (an hour ago) from an awful nightmare.
I had travelled an hour to go a butcher. Stood in line for ages to get served. Took another age to get served because the guy that was serving me forgot he was serving me and left me standing around for a while. Then when all was done, the machine rejected my credit card. I had to drive all the way home empty handed after dark.

What a stressful dream. I actually woke up in a sweat.

Damn butchers. There's nothing wrong with my credit card!! :D

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Anxiety dreams are a bitch.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

They are. Worse than creepy ones sometimes.

[Kim]

Terri wrote: "Deborah wrote: "
What were the books you loved so much you could not part with them? ..."

They were bird books. Photographic non fiction books on Raptors and a bird identification book.

I am stil..."

A fellow birder! Most of my limited book space is taken up by my bird books. I can't part with any of them either.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Nice to finally meet a fellow birder in here! I thought I was the only one, Kim.
I am big into the birds. I have always stalked them with binoculars, but a few months back I bought a dslr camera and now I stalk them with a camera.

I was surprised to discover how much more you learn about the birds when you take their picture instead of looking at them down some binoculars. It is like being new to the hobby all over again. :)

[Kim]

Yes, there are few of us. It's really too bad. They are so beautiful. I am passing it along to my youngest son. All the others are teenagers or older and stuck in their electric devices.

My husband has a dslr camera I use. He's not a birder, but he will take pictures of them for me when he's out and about. He's the photographer in the family. He's always worried I'm gonna mess up his settings when I use it. haha

[Lisa]

I want to make sure I'm way past the statute of limitations before I confess anything. There were so many I liked and just had to touch.......

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Lisa wrote: "I want to make sure I'm way past the statute of limitations before I confess anything. There were so many I liked and just had to touch......."

That's confession enough for me. ;)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Kim wrote: "Yes, there are few of us. It's really too bad. They are so beautiful. I am passing it along to my youngest son. All the others are teenagers or older and stuck in their electric devices.

My hu..."

I am just learning the settings. They freak me out. If I am in a hurry to get a shot I leave in on Auto. I know that if I take my time and adjust the exposure, etc.. the bird will be gone.
I only dabble in the settings when I have lots of time to play around with them. :)

I asked for from my hubby, and am getting, a proper portable bird hide for Christmas. It is already paid for and hidden in the cupboard.

[Kim]

I know what you mean. I'm not very good at it, so I keep it on whatever settings he has it on. I just change the lens. We live in the country and have bird feeders everywhere. I have seen some interesting birds from my back porch. I wouldn't survive in the city.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Depends on the city. I live in Victoria's state capital, Melbourne. My yard is full of birds and animals.

Magpies, ravens, wrens, various species of parrot, sparrows, minahs. We've now got the native minah bird moved in. Such a cheeky noisy little thing.

[Kim]

Margaret wrote: "Depends on the city. I live in Victoria's state capital, Melbourne. My yard is full of birds and animals.

Magpies, ravens, wrens, various species of parrot, sparrows, minahs. We've now got the ..."

I would love to visit Australia and see the native wildlife. Alas, it's not meant to be.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Kim wrote: "Margaret wrote: "Depends on the city. I live in Victoria's state capital, Melbourne. My yard is full of birds and animals.

Magpies, ravens, wrens, various species of parrot, sparrows, minahs. W..."

You never know, Kim. Stranger things have happened. I visited the USA twice, when I never thought I'd ever get there.

[Deb]

Margaret it is nice to have a relationship with ones library isn't it? It is such a restful relationship too. St Kilda was the first library I joined when I came back to Australia and I have a soft spot for it.

I have to say Terri that that is a well used, well loved book. However you acquired it :)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

It is. *grins*

Do you remember the ABC show "The Librarians"? The writer's based the characters on the St Kilda Library staff.

I watched a couple of episodes and laughed way too hard. It was so easy to spot who was based on whom if you knew the staff.

[Gretchen]

I've never made off when any library books but I may have participated in shenanigans that lead to me spending my 16th birthday in jail. You don't get cake when it's your birthday in jail.

[Simona]

Kimber wrote: "Thanks guys! *hugs* to you all and no worries..I'm not going anywhere. :D"

Be well, Kimber. These things can be cured these days, among my family and friends there are several people healthy and happy after an ordeal like yours.

And I prefer to be gullible and sorry than cynical and cruel, so...sursum corde, my friend.

[Simona]

Terri wrote: "I asked for from my hubby, and am getting, a proper portable bird hide for Christmas. It is already paid for and hidden in the cupboard. ..."

You aren't supposed to know that! Forget! Forget immediately! :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Gretchen wrote: "I've never made off when any library books but I may have participated in shenanigans that lead to me spending my 16th birthday in jail. You don't get cake when it's your birthday in jail."


hahaha!. I've done some similar youthful shenanigans and ended up in such a place too. 19 I was. :)
They fed me baked beans and toast for dinner. I hate baked beans. The coppers were all very nice to me. They seemed to enjoy my company. made the experience less frightening.
One even offered to let me come stay at his place after I got out the next day....I am sure he was just being nice. :]

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Simona wrote: "You aren't supposed to know that! Forget! Forget immediately! :)..."

I'm trying!! It came in a plain brown box (it was posted here) so I didn't even get to see internal packaging. Gives an added sense of suspense even though I know what I am getting. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Did anybody else read the Sex and Reading post on the Goodreads blog?
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/4...

These stats prove it, I have little in common with the average woman.
But I already knew that. :)

[ECH]

Terri wrote: "Did anybody else read the Sex and Reading post on the Goodreads blog?
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/4...

These stats prove it, I have little in co..."

I often suspect I'm not the intended audience for my own life, so this one doesn't surprise me much. Then again, goodreads recently tried to recommend to me about five different old manuals for teenage boys. I've long figured algorithms can not perceive my gender.

[Carol]

I have never read a book based on the gender of the author. I think some of the best detective stories which one would think would be a male oriented genre were written by women ( think Agatha Christe) and I am sure there are those books that this author thinks women would be more attracted to, written by men. Good writing has no gender.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

LOL! They really have it wrong with you don't they? I have never had teenage boy manuals before, but I'm the other end of the spectrum. I get all the 'chick books' directed to me in recommendations.
Not that I have anything wrong with chick books or the chicks that read them, they simply aren't my cup of tea. Because I am woman, the GR algorithms think I like all the female oriented historical fiction books and bestsellers.

How wrong they have it.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I read across so many areas I think I have sent GRs algorithms insane.

[ECH]

Terri wrote: "LOL! They really have it wrong with you don't they? I have never had teenage boy manuals before, but I'm the other end of the spectrum. I get all the 'chick books' directed to me in recommendations..."

Between being a physical chemist, playing a bunch of video games, and reading a lot of genre fiction, I've got almost all the sites baffled. Except facebook. They latch on to my gender, age, and some misconceptions they have about my religious affiliation, and try to sell me "christian dating", "modest wedding dresses" and "in home birth" in cycles. Every time I tell them I'm not interested in one they go to the next one.

[Gretchen]

The title of that post was horribly disappointing.

[Lisa]

Terri wrote: "Gretchen wrote: "I've never made off when any library books but I may have participated in shenanigans that lead to me spending my 16th birthday in jail. You don't get cake when it's your birthday ..."

Yep, yep, just being nice!! Bahahahaha. You were 19! I bet he was, :)))

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Lisa wrote: "Yep, yep, just being nice!! Bahahahaha. You were 19! I bet he was, :))) ..."

He was around 25 or 26 I think. So an age i would have dated. Very cute too! Still, I declined the offer. He told me to come and see his band play too. I didn't show up for that either.
In the movies its always the copper that turns out to be the serial killer and, cute or not, I found the offer of a place to stay a little bit creepy.. ;)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Gretchen wrote: "The title of that post was horribly disappointing."


Sex and reading? Yeah, me too. I was expecting it to mean something much more blushworthy. Maybe a blog post about Erotica or sex in books.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Beth wrote: "and try to sell me "christian dating", "modest wedding dresses" and "in home birth" in cycles..."

That's hilarious!
The ads that show up for me on Facebook are usually for clothes.

[happy]

Wow, things have been busy here the last couple of days!
As to the weather - it's been chilly, but we really haven't had a lot of snow yet. The ski resorts are busy making it so they can open this weekend.

I read in the paper last week that one night last week all 50 states had lows below freezing.


As to "stealing" books from the library - I never have, but I did try to shoplift a paperback from the Stars and Stipes book store in Germany way back when -I was 13 or 14 and got caught. It cured me, I've never even been tempted since. The worst thing about the whole event was trying to explain it to my father.

Christmas has offically started for the Happy household. One of our traditions is to take in Christmas concert. We normally don't go quite this early, but Trans-Siberian Orchestra was in town and we got tickets for their concert. Enjoyable, but LOUD! It's been a while since I've been to a rock concert. We had 5th row tickets just off to the side. My 23 and 19 yr old daughters had a blast. It was more fun watching them than the band :)

I will spend tomorrow checking outdoor Christmas lights and will get them up next week, hopefully before the next storms get here.

[Dawn]

You wouldn't want to take a road trip and put up my lights too, would you??

[Simona]

Too early for me. I put them on around the 7th of December and take them off the 6th of january.

[Dawn]

I usually put them up whenever there is some good weather and turn them on December 1st. But I'm feeling lazy this year!

[Gretchen]

Mr. Gretchen is anti-outdoor lights. Little does he know, the Christmas tree is going up next Thursday while he's standing in line with all those other crazies waiting for the season of corporate greed to begin.

[Carlos]

Hi! My name is Carlos and I am a book Thief, (one time). I remember being with friends in High School in the roof of the library watching them get stoned (I have never tried myself, but there's still time I am only 54 yo) and laughing of all of them when I noticed someone has left an open window and I could easily take one of the books which I did and It was a bad one (The New Centurions) so I don´t remember if I ever returned but sure as hell I read It. I still remember the ending. Now I feel lighter. The library is still there maybe I have to make a donation to make ammends.

[Darcy]

I've never lightened a library's load, but I managed to purloin a few books from a course that was being cancelled at high school. I also accidentally left a bookshop with a couple books I hadn't paid for. It wasn't intentional. I'd been holding them in the crook of my arm for probably an hour or so when I went up to pay for the others. They were there for all to see but both the clerk and I missed it. I didn't notice until I got home hours later. I must have moved them at some point, but it wasn't until I dropped them onto the bed that I figured it out.
This walking out of shops without paying for stuff is also how I got my first 45 record, and a 40oz bottle of vodka (about a decade apart). Makes me sound like a klepto, but the vodka was 27 years ago and I haven't done it since.