Blaaaah

The weather is vile. This much humidity should be against the law, or something. My entire skin feels greasy.

I'm doing the 15-minutes-on-15-minutes-off technique to shovel out the munchkin's room. The first 20 minutes barely cleared a six-inch-square patch of floor.

At least her ear pain has subsided from last night's tossing and turning, and the walk-in confirmed my suspicion of swimmer's ear, and she has antibiotic drops for it, and poor kid has to miss swimming for a week.

Blaaaah.

If I had $1,000,000.00

No, not the Barenaked Ladies song, although I like that.

No, it's how I'd stock my very own personal reference library.

A Windows-compatible, searchable CD-ROM copy of the Stith Thompson Motif-index of Folk Literature can be had for $400, plus a $20 setup fee.

I want it so bad I can taste it.

I also want an Oxford English Dictionary, a copy of the Annotated Alice to go with the Annotated Mother Goose and Annotated Sherlock Holmes I already own, a complete collection of the Child ballads, and, while I'm wishing, I'd really like a pony.

I'm not even planning to write novels. I just want all this stuff to improve my PBeM posts, and maybe to have on hand if I ever decide to GM again.

Any wealthy benefactors out there?