I know, I know! As a parent I introduced my kids to a broad range of material when we read at bedtime (and we continued even when they were both in high school). They share those interests but also have many more of their own. Asked to make a recommendation for someone else's grown child is a challenge.

Shopping today until I was tired of it, not until I was finished. I'll go over to Costco later in the day when they tend to empty out. We started out at the discount grocery and I scored three boxes of a good looking gluten free cake mix to use in my wonderful cranberry bars. The cake part is full of sugar and the mix is used as the flour part, so they are gluten free but these aren't healthy, but better than before, and perfect to make for xmas.

Yesterday I made the call to sell the Canon EOS digital camera setup - I haven't been tempted to use it now that the Nikon is doing everything I need. B&H in NYC gives a quote, emails it in a document with a mailing label, and you send the gear to them to appraise IRL then revise the offer. Anything they don't want I'll sell for parts or repair on eBay, but either way, that's a bag of gear out of the office. I need to vacuum a couple of these nylon camera cases (lots of dust) and donate them to the teachers who are always looking for cases and storage and organizing materials.

Back to the front room, where the brush on the vacuum hose will do some heavy dusting. I'll flatten more boxes and see how much floor space is cleared out now. I'm ready to sit down at the piano to see how out of tune it is. (It's already tuned a whole note low because the strings are so old they break if trying to bring to standard tune, so anything played on it sounds rather dark.)