Revision: Moleskine USB Rechargeable Booklight–Not So Awesome after all.

Last September, I posted what might be the most in-depth review I’ve ever done, or ever will do of a product. The Moleskine USB Rechargeable Booklight.

Based on my order history, it died in May of this year.

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Awesome Thing: Rice Tub

I asked for a rice cooker for Christmas, and my parents got me one. Well, sort of. It was listed as Gremlin’s present, but I was the one who asked for it.

I like rice, I just don’t like making it. And the easy-to-cook rice costs so much more than regular rice. Regular rice is, what, fifty cents a pound or something? Something ridiculously cheap. Especially if you buy twenty pounds at once.

Which causes a problem: what the hell do you do with twenty pounds of rice, if you’re not cooking for five hundred people at once?

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Unexpected Good News

We ended up going out for dinner today, even though it wasn’t really in The Budget. It was a friend’s birthday, and it was just a small gathering, and I didn’t have to eat. I ate anyway, because everyone kept having me eat off their plates.

Not gonna complain about that. I tried two new things, and they were both surprisingly tasty.

While we were there, though, we ended up talking about the library.

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