Free Books Are Blessed.

When free books are read aloud by John Hodgman, also for free, they are double-blessed. How it slipped by me, I don’t know (I blame my lack of internet access for the past three days), but apparently John Hodgman’s excellent audiobook version of Areas of My Expertise is now free at the iTunes store. If you finish this sentence without clicking over there and beginning to download your own free copy, then you are a slimy fuckwit without a dram of sense and we have nothing left to say to each other.

Aw, who am I kidding? It’s Christmas Eve. I’ll spot you this one. Just get the free book, you.

One-Minute Update

This is how much I can tell you in one minute of typing*:

I had to drop my MacBook off to get a fan replaced, my parents are in town for Christmas and to pick up this black lab we’ve been holding for them, and I’ve finally been to the Atlanta History Center in Buckhead. This is all from the last two days. In an amazing twist, the Apple store got my machine back to me the very next day (today), so here I am finally typing again. And here’s I’ll be this week, playing catch-up at my desk at home while everyone else is off on holiday vacation. I think of it as my little elf’s-like workshop. Now, if –

Time’s up.

* While being distracted by an episode of Homicide.