Google Books: My Hero

Okay, I’ve never used Google Books before — because face it, I have plenty of books to read here; I sometimes find myself wishing for a hospital visit or something so I can get to some of them — but today it absolutely made my day.

Why?  Because one of the papers I’m holed up writing this weekend* is about David Hume, and I don’t own a copy of his mega-master-work, A Treatise on Human Understanding.  But I need it as a primary source.  So I put the phrase in, hoping Google-fu will unearth some exerpts or something with enough veracity to quote as a primary source…and what do you think I find?

The entire text.  Indexed, searchable, and, in spite of being an image, copyable with the copy/paste command, for easy quoting.

Brilliant, brilliant, OMG BRILLIANT.

So, that’s the good news. 

The bad news?  Is how many things I want to do this weekend, and probably can’t because it’s imperative that I finish both these papers.  Because I can’t do them, I guess I’ll console myself by making a list of them:

*  Set up new drum kit!  (Will probably, to be fair, do this one anyway…come on, I have a drum kit!!  It’s awesome!!!)
*  Go to taiji (will definitely do this anyway, because otherwise I’ll be so sore from being behind the computer all weekend…ugh)
*  Go to open-skate charity event at Anime to Skateboards…I love the owners of that shop, and that they’ll set up all kinds of equipment in their parking lot and let people come skate on it on a Saturday, raffle stuff off and give the proceeds to Gleaners…I’d have to make stupid hot progress today in order to be able to swing this tomorrow…but, um…I really want to!
*  Work on basement…lord, that’s getting desperate…but I probably just can’t
*  Ditto I just can’t do any painting in the kitchen, though geez, I’ve had that paint for months now
*  Photograph and post new chainmail, heh yeah right
*  Make tutorial for "my" chainmail weave, Asian Bicycles…again, haha yeah right
*  Buy new printer…might end up having to do this, since mine is taking a crap and well, paper-writing means printing some things now and again…though who knows, Google Books might save me from that too…
*  Buy new underwear…shut up, I need it!
*  Donate the metric shit-ton of accumulated clothing, and pick up some new work pants while I’m there…yeah, probably not…
*  Do a ton of laundry (will do this, because it provides good repetitive-stress breaks)
*  Read this week’s comics (Immortal Iron Fist!  Jack of Fables!  Thor!  Awesome haul this week) and watch the new Dr Who and anime I’ve got…yeah…maybe, if my brain fries hard enough, but I hope it doesn’t because I can’t miss any more work for this, and it’s gotta get done…
*  Call contractor & mechanics (they’ll just have to call me, probably)
*  Not go crazy (very unlikely that I’ll get around to that one; it’s too much work!)
*  Finalize Ubersleep! …MAN it’s irritating me to have it so close and not be able to work on it!  Just gotta hold out until next week, though…
*  File the piles of paperwork from April (not that I’ve ever managed to do that right at the end of the month, like I should)

And, you know, other crap.  At least it’s there, though, so maybe my brain can just get used to the idea that there’s a huge list of crap we’re not going to get to do this weekend, and get over itself.  You thing?  …Yeah, me neither.  If my brain could get over itself, I’d be Buddha or something by now.

Speaking of, I’m having a great email conversation that I plan to post bits of soon…you ever correspond with someone and think, "If they ever collect my "correspondence" when I die, this is going to be some of the best of it"?  Well, I have.  I know some awesome people, digitally and otherwise.

Alright alright, back I go.  TO THE TRENCHES!  DON’T SHOOT UNTIL YOU SEE DEAD WHITE GUYS!

;)

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*Look, I’m not procrastinating; I’m killing time while I update OpenOffice because that italics bug in 2.3 is killing me, okay?