Two books I found at work today

Your Psychic Power and How to Develop Them

Psychic Archeology: Your Time Machine to the Past

And as a result of this, I now know that "Parapsychology and Archeology" is a Library of Congress subject heading. Words cannot express my delight.


We have a surprisingly large 133* section. I think we may have gotten a donation from a generous crackpot, or perhaps the crackpot's heirs. I think that section may soon get quite a bit smaller, since I don't think we really need to be giving shelf space to the writings of crazy nutters that haven't been checked out in the past twenty years. If they were popular writings of crazy nutters, that would be a different matter entirely. But given the dust from a bygone prehistoric era that puffs up every time you open one of those books, I think that's a section ripe for weeding.



*Occultism and Supernatural/Parapsychology/crazy weird ravings by eccentric loons

(no subject)

Currently, to flush our toilet you have to:

1. Turn the water on at the back of the toilet
2. Lift the lid off of the tank
3. Pull on the chain that was once attached to the arm of the flush lever before it broke off
4. Wait for the tank to fill up
5. Turn the water off again so the toilet doesn't keep running indefinitely.

We first called about the initial broken handle problem two weeks ago. The more our toilet disintegrates before our eyes, the fewer qualms I have about moving to a new house with a new landlord.