Book trading? How does that work?

I think the idea is we share books, shipping them to each other and then sending them back when we're done.

I'd be horrible at it, because if the book was good, I'd just want to keep it.

Sorry, but whatever ratings motivated television show tried to propogate such a silly idea is just dumb. The real causes of the Irish potato famine are well documented.

No, here's my idea...

To start with, everyone posts five books they have that they're willing to share. Someone sees a book they like, makes arrangements with the original poster to share the book or to swap. These should be paperbacks with low retail value unless it's something you just *have* to share. But because we're all bibliophiles, we would need to understand the odds of getting it back are low.

Ideally, when the person who got the book finished, they'd post it back to the group. That's the intention. And every month or so, we'd encourage members to add another book or two to the list. If we got 100 users, we could have a pretty cool selection. Sure it would cost us a small amount for shipping, but every one of the books would qualify for media mail rates so it wouldn't be too much of a cost. And if they wanted to ask to be reimbursed via paypal for shipping expenses, I don't think that'd be an unreasonable request.

It might take a bit to get the "rules" down, but I think if we worked at it we could set up something pretty cool.

Mason:

The program is The Irish in America. Blurb: "Aidan Quinn narrates this special 2-hour look at the epic 350-year struggle of Irish immigrants. Includes Irish involvement in the American Revolution, the Age of Jackson, the Mexican and Civil Wars, the California Gold Rush, and the building of the great American cities."

Perhaps you should let them know that they are mistaken? They probably have some sort of forum or email address for disgruntled history buffs. LOL.

I have no dispute at all with those aspects at all. Being of Irish descent tracing back from before the American revolution and far back in Irish history, but the cause of the Irish potato famine had little to nothing to do with the North American immigration. Like many things, people attribute causality where they will.

But then again, perhaps all of the things that I have read over the years regarding this issue were wrong.

That would be my guess.

I spent six hours in a call center negotiating hotel rooms for people who couldn't get flights out of whatever airport you can name due to the weather on the east coast! My mind numbed to such an extent that I completely forgot it was St. Patrick's Day until I got home at 1am and read a Yahoo! thing about how St. Patrick's Day is inexplicably popular in Japan.

My question is this: Do I win the boring game since, technically, I drifted (mentally) to a place where the holiday didn't even exist?

I did my taxes - now do I win for the most boring?

10 of us got a limo up to the casino (Mohegan Sun)

When we got there, we had a VIP table at the club for free, normally 500 bones just to get the table. Bottle service, gambling, the whole nine yards.

Was lots of fun but I paid for it yesterday. I did win a few hundred at craps though

I win for most boring.

I started the day by pinching three babies awake at 4:45am. (their diapers had green on them, just don't tell them that)

I did my shift until someone else woke up and then started working on a side job seting up a server, upgrading 6 laptops and configuring quickbooks to run in a multi-user environment.