Scooter Chronicles

I experienced my first “Oops!” with a BookMooch member. It wasn’t a bad experience, but it turned out to be even better.

The member is a female that goes by the username DEWEY (don’t want to give her real name, but still want to give her kudos). I was looking for a hardcover edition of “The Alienist” by Caleb Carr, and luck would have it that there was a copy available from her. However, she accidently listed it as a hardcover when it was really a mass market paperback.

Now BookMooch lets you give feedback. You gave give one of three ratings: +1, 0, or -1. I gave her a 0 because it wasn’t the edition that was listed, but the book was still in great condition. (If it had been a...

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But not one to celebrate.

Nigel has his first cold. The poor little guy is congested. His nose is running like mad, and since his mouth is always open to breathe he is drooling even more now. He woke up in the middle of the night for the first time in months because of it. I have a cold as well, so Marcia took care of him. I think he was only up for about an hour.

He is not letting it get to him too much though. He was all smiles when I woke him up this morning (I got the day off because of the impending move), and he was pretty happy for a while after breakfast and his bath, too. But it’s starting to take it’s toll on him. As I write, he is laying fast asleep on Marcia’s chest while...

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Been a while since I posted any pictures of Nigel. Falling behind with everything else going on. Not sure when all these were taken though.

First we have Nigel with Marcia’s Hello Kitty pillow. Marcia was disappointed in not having a daughter because you can’t get a boy Hello Kitty stuff. However it looks like Nigel still likes the pillow.

One night, while sitting on the couch with us, Nigel decided to turn around and lay on his stomach. He was like that for about 10 minutes just watching TV.

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