I am still doorless. The signs now point to a new door today. In the meantime, I have newer lights around the exterior of the house and two fewer vacation days.

And a headache.

So while I am still on house arrest I figure it's a decent time to do a little quasi-random link posting and conversational catch-up. I hope you are okay with that.

• Help Miami get 20,000 free books for our community's disadvantaged children by voting for us at First Book.
• The Miami International Book Fair is now in progress with it's "An Evening With..." series; Wednesday evening features Arianna Huffington, and Thursday it's Isabel Allende. (The Street Fair starts Friday.)
• Deep Discount DVD, an establishment I frequent for my all too frequent DVD purchases, is having their twice-annual 20% off everything sale. Given that they have pretty good prices in the first place, the extra discount makes it quite an attractive holiday gift shopping option. For a list of codes to use you can see this forum post. (For the cinephiles among you, this discount is applied in addition to the normal 35% discount they give on Criterion titles.)
• I've watched a lot of DVDs in the last couple of weeks, between Hallowe'en and two cross-country flights. It's mainly been TV shows (Justice League Unlimited, Wild Palms, Addams Family Volume 1) due to the episodic time slots available for viewing. However, I also managed to get in A Woman with Red Hair, Musee Mechanique, and Spirits of the Dead. Putting all of this in my brain at once is causing some odd dreams.
• Past futures hold a great deal of fascination for me — the world of the 1960s as envisioned in the 1920s, for example. Of particular interest is the steampunk genre, that nexus of Victorian colonial propriety and mechanical marvels. One of the best sites exploring this period is Brass Goggles. (I want a pair of the eponymous handcrafted mad-inventor eyewear very badly.)
• Next year will be my thirty-year high school reunion. Thus far I've never attended a reunion, and I haven't made up my mind yet about this one. But, does anyone have any experience with Reunion.com? It looks remarkably like an on-line dating site, and this does not fill me with the desire to send them $30.

With luck the next post will be a picture of my shiny and thoroughly industrial front door.