Books, Neil Gaiman, you tube volumn control, and that froggy icon

Yes, I took a picture of my stuffed frog at work and turned it into an icon. Let's move on. Oh, wait, I call him Kermit. Not because he necessarily looks like Kermit - okay maybe his much prettier cousin, but because I suck at naming things. My idea of a pet's name was Spooky. Then my brother took over. Although he named his kid Cedar. So this may be a genetic thing.

Prior to going online again tonight - ran into issues with Youtube volumn control. ( rather embarrassing mishap with computer which I'm writing down in case this happens to me again and I forget how to fix it again. )

Neil Gaiman found a website that had me laughing very loudly. Go here: http://jen-campbell.blogspot.com/search/label/weird%20things%20customers%20say

It's crazy things that customers say at bookstores. My favorite?

Customer: Do you have this book *holds up a biography* but without the photographs?
Me: I think the photographs are published alongside the text in every edition.
Customer: Why?
Me: I suppose so you can see what everyone looked like.
Customer: I don't like photographs.
Me: Ok.
Customer: Could you cut them out for me?
Me: .......

Although it really is hard to choose. Seriously? Neil Gaiman's blog is fun. Even if I envy his life, okay not the traveling about bit - I rather hate traveling. Seeing new places - I enjoy, getting to them and staying in hotels - not so much. I sleep poorly away from my own bed. My parents were/are travel bugs - ie. they love to travel. Okay, should amend that - they hated the actual travel, but loved going to new places. As a result - did a lot of traveling between the ages of 10-35.

Gaiman also provided a link to a rather interesting list of genre books.

http://yetistomper.blogspot.com/2011/05/for-win-guide-to-2011s-best-of-best.html

Five books I want to try because they look cool:

( Five Cool Science Fiction and Fantasy Books )