Yeah. My mom left yesterday evening. My room begins to resemble its previous configuration, with myseterious piles appearing at every corner and the distinct feeling of being smaller than it actually is.

News#1: My computer is gone. I gave it to my mom because she said she wants one at home, and I felt it would be too much for her to buy one when she would be using it just for writing documents and spreadsheets. She will get a printer there, that’s all.

News#2: I am getting a new computer. With a DVD drive. And a Creative Soundblaster Live!TM soundcard, and a 5.1 Cambridge SoundworksTM speaker set. Beatzo’s descent into Entertainment hell begins. *Insert RATM guitar riffs here*

News#3: Ma left at 5:45 yesterday. At 6:10, I was in Abids, going through the new Star Wars novels that Ahmedsir seems to have gotten. Found a lot of good novels, but the icing was the invitation he made. Seems there’s a new sci-fi collection he’s acquired, so he wants me to go today and help him price the lot. He’s about to put up a sale, and he wants optimal prices. Right. First dip is what I get in exchange.
The stuff I bought yesterday:

Philip Pullman: The Tin Princess. My first stab at Pullman. Seems this book is a member of that deadly species for bibliophiles – The Multi-part Epic. So I will have to defer reading it until I get the remaining ones. Or unless madhavn can help me out with the reading order.

Carl Hiassen – Skin Tight. I have taken to buying every Hiassen book I find. That guy can make me laugh aloud.

Vonda McIntyre – Star Wars: The Crystal Star. I sometimes get confused about which Star Wars trilogies I have, it’s easy to get parts 1 and 3 of every trilogy, but tough, really tough to find out part 2. Standalone books are so much better. Reserved a lot of stuff that I will buy today or tomorrow.

A haul of Argosy magazines from 1953. Contains original stories by Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, AJ Cronin, among others. Got a set of four books for 25 rupees, feeling pretty good about it.