Well my hatred of clothing shopping finally won out and I bought a bathing suit online. I wasn’t going to, since bathing suits are sorta the kind of thing you want to try on before you buy them… but I really don’t feel like going to stores in the end of July only to discover all they have left for bathing suits on the rack are size 4 bikinis, ’cause who buys a bathing suit in the middle of the summer? Oh well, I checked with the return policy of this one place and it seemed pretty good so I spent like $50, I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much on a bathing suit, but I didn’t want to get one from a crappy no name online company, that’s scary. Anyway, the reason for getting one was is that we have a pool here at the apartments, and it’s been hot, so I want to go swimming. I paid extra for quick delivery, so it should be here by friday or so… what can I say, I’m an impatient young american. The sucky thing is that I tried twice last night and the website was all “our site not working, come back later” and now when I look at my online bank statement it shows charging me 3 times… “Debit pending” of course, so hopefully when the bank realizes it was a mistake those will go away… I called the company this morning anyway to make sure they only charged me once. Gah, I wouldn’t be to happy losing $100 by some browser mistake, I’d lose all faith in internet shopping.
Speaking of which, I just finished the Third Wheel of Time book last night and wrote up a review:
The Dragon Reborn, by Robert Jordan, 701 pages
In this third book of the Wheel of Time series there was a lot of moving
of characters, it was very well written so that you are equally
interested in all the characters movements. I find that in some books
one set of characters is more interested than another and I always pull
myself through reading the uninteresting stuff to get the the
interesting stuff. Not so with Jordan, he really makes an effort to make
the whole story flow very well. Unfortunately, with this book I find
what flaw people have with Jordan, this book was about 700 pages long
and very little happened. Or hardly anything very important anyway, he
manages to take up a lot of space to write a small progression of the
story. I personally don’t really have a problem with this, not now
anyway, but I’m afraid I’ll learn to dislike it as the series
progresses. Some people have said that he created this series so that he
could write it for his entire life, he is very good at describing
scenes, and developing characters, but it takes so long. Anyway, the
plot is pretty much all the characters growing in their chosen tasks,
and all end up chasing different people all to this city of Tear. The
climax occurs toward the end when The Dragon Reborn takes a vital step
toward world proclaimation of his status. So in all? I
liked it, breezed through it in a little over a week, I’ll probably be
heading out for book number four in a couple weeks.
So I just looked up on my bookshelf and saw a book I hadnt read yet Redwall I’ve actually read another in the series but not this one, they are fantasy stories whose characters are animals *shrugs* It’ll be a nice break between WoT books. Hopefully I’ll get to the bookstore before I’m done with this so I wont have to do something silly like reading the Celestine Prophecy next or something. Then again I am sure I could look through my piles of books and find a few things I havent read… The problem is that I have a terrible habit of acquiring like, the second book in a 5 book series or something, I cant read that ’cause I havent read the first, and even if I decide to go on without reading previous I sorta get committed to a series *shrugs* I am gonna go wander off and see if I can get some work done, since it’s after 1 and all I have done today is unsucessfully tried to change my secondary domain name, bleh.
Wednesday, Jul 24th, 2002 at 0:44
hehe i used to hate shopping to…till i got money