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Tomorrow is the semi-annual used book sale at the city library. It's become something of a tradition to get in line an hour early so that we can be some of the first in the door. We used to go to breakfast beforehand, but lately we've been doing that after the sale. One of the great things about the used book sale is that you can go around buying every book in sight that has even the slightest appeal to you, and still end up with a bill of just around $20.

I have a confession to make. I've started playing Magic: The Gathering again. For those of you unaware of what this is, it's an addictive little card game based on two competing wizards casting spells. That short description doesn't do justice to the infernal addictiveness of this, the first collectible card game. So far I haven't spent any money on it -- I've been playing with a friend's deck. At most I plan on buying a single tournament deck with a couple of boosters and doing a sealed deck tournament. I say that now... Though honestly, I think I played so much Magic back in the day that though I can still enjoy it, I think I'm largely immune from becoming addicted and spending wagonloads of money on it again.

I guess I should toss a link in before I close. Scientific America did the top 50 science websites the other day. I didn't have time to look through it that much, but it looked like there was hundreds of hours of really quality web surfing available for anyone with the time. And the latest Election Scorecard has Bush back on top, but only by the slenderest of margins.

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