Not a Bad Apple

So I'm on vacation this week and decided to head over to Green Apple books on Clement to check out their used book selection. It was so great. I found 7 books and I hadn't even stepped inside yet! They were all on the super sale outdoor rack. One of them was by a guy I used to work with in New York. I was so excited to see his book and thought, wow! I'll have to write him and tell him that I saw/bought it. Then I realized that it had been marked down to $2.50. I guess I won't be telling him about it, after all.

I meant to go hiking today, but the weather is so crappy, I think I'll just settle into my afternoon with one of my new books, perhaps Adam Gopnik's "Paris to the Moon." I've been wanting to read it for awhile, and at $1.99, I don't think it will disappoint.

It's Good to be the Queen

I have to say I'm riveted by the coverage of Queen Elizabeth visiting the States this week. President Bush even made me laugh when he joked with her about one of his usual misstatements in a speech he made in the Rose Garden yesterday. (He said we celebrated our bicentennial in 1776, instead of 1976. She gave him a look and he made a joke about how she gave him a look that only a mother could, and I think he meant that England was sort of like our mother, so it was appropriate that she should scold him like one. But maybe I'm giving him too much credit. I was impressed with his quick wit. And that never happens. And then the British press got all upset about it because he winked at her, too. You're not supposed to wink at the Queen, apparently.)

Anyway, what I really wanted to talk about was the Queen's hat today. Check it out from all angles. It's fabulous!