On things...

I went out tonight, to get gas and to generally be away from home for awhile. I went and bought gas somewhere new today, and only paid $1.45 a gallon, so that was a plus. Cheapest I had seen so far was $1.49, so $1.45 was cool. It wasn't too far from my house, so it was worth the drive. After I filled up the gas tank I decided I wanted to go somewhere, but I wasn't really sure where. I decided that I hadn't been to Barnes and Noble in a long time, so I drove from the gas station to there. I debated stopping for ice cream when I passed the ice cream place, but I was too full at the time. That is twice today that I have thought about ice cream but been too full to actually want any.

So I go into Barnes with the goal of simply wandering around and seeing what was there. I enjoyed the smell of coffee and debated a cappucino, but decided against on the grounds that I was still full and I had no cash. I have not been to the north Barnes in a long time so I was disorientated, it is arrange almost the exact opposite of the south store. I wanted to get the newest Dilbert book, so I went to the back of the store, where they used to be, only to discover they had been moved to the front of the store. I got that book fine and decided to go wandering.

I walked past the religion books, the new age books, looked at some of the current events books too. I was looking for this one Micheal Moore book but they only had "Downsize This" and his newest book, which apparently just came out. I checked out the history books and saw one titled "George W. Bush, The Suprise Presidency." Yea, suprised is he president. I think the book was pro-Bush though, I didn't stop to look at. I then spent a lot of time looking at the writing books and making mental notes of books to try and find at the library. Unless it was a book I wanted to reference all the time, it is better to get them from the library.

After that I headed to the other side of the store and checked out the computer books. As I was passing the web design books I thought, "Do they have a book about not making webpages that suck?" Of course they have that one book, "Webpages that Suck" but that's not what I meant. I barley glanced at the computer books tonight though, I have plenty of them, don't read them, so I don't need more. I scanned the cookbooks and realized I would never use most of the recipies because I don't like complicated foods, and I don't like a lot of stuff. I like simple, plain meals and I'm not big into cooking meat. I consider instant mashed potatoes to be a perfect meal.

The next section is where a lot of my thoughts started springing from. I hit the ever popular self-help section. You know the one with books written by those people that try to fix other people's problems in an hour or less on tv. I call it the "Dr. Phil Syndrome." As I was looking at these books all I could think was, "I sure hope the answer to my problems can't be found in some book because I like to think my life is a bit more complicated than that that can be summed up in 250 pages of babble."

As I neared the end of my shopping adventure I spotted a little book titled Lucky Wander Boy and was interested mainly by the cover photo. Turns out this book was written for me, I swear it had to have been. Read the webpage about it and you will understand why.

I am now pretty tried and think I should probably get some sleep. I hope you all have a good evening!