Becky, Kristy and V are going out to have fun, while I stay in the apartment and study. Pout.

And now, back to a less enjoyable book…

Yay!

P.S. Although I no longer need to worry about spoilers, please continue to confine spoileriffic comments to That Which Must Not Be Blogged (for now), for the sake of readers who haven’t finished the book yet. Thanks!

P.P.S. Glenn Reynolds writes:

Hmm. Clicking around a few sitemeters, it appears that yesterday was the slowest Saturday in a long time for the blogosphere. Coincidence? Or all those people reading Harry Potter?

Okay, I didn’t check enough to be scientific, but I still think we should be glad J.K. Rowling didn’t release the book on a Monday, as the economic drag would probably tip us over into recession . . . .

Heh.

NOTE: This post will remain on top of my homepage all day Saturday, even as new stuff is posted below it. That way, anyone who wants to comment on Deathly Hallows as they’re reading it will be able to easily do so.

If you want to leave spoileriffic comments without being exposed to other commenters’ spoilers, use the “safe” comment form. Otherwise, use the regular comment form.

Either way, THIS IS THE ONLY POST ON THE BLOG FOR DISCUSSING HARRY POTTER SPOILERS. It’s okay to discuss the book in non-spoileriffic terms elsewhere, but please confine any comments about the book’s contents to this post only. Thank you!

FINAL WARNING: There are spoilers after the jump, and in comments on this post.

(more…)

Just landed. 65 pages to go in book. Becky was done like two hours ago. Harumph.

Tammy Fay Messner, the former televangelist and Christian singer, died Friday, CNN’s Larry King says.

Visit CNN for the latest.

I'm on Chapter 22, and I know what the Deathly Hallows are. Can't say it here, of course -- it Must Not Be Blogged! :) Anyway, flight to Denver will be boarding shortly.

We’ve arrived in Nashville; waiting for the airport shuttle bus now. I’m halfway through the book — 18 chapters down, 18 to go.

Leaving for Nashville now… and I can finally start reading again! Yay! (Becky, who's WAY ahead of me in the book now, is driving.)

I’m just over a week into my Mac ownership, and because of that, I haven’t really had much occasion to step back and use the household PC much recently. However, I’ve been converting my recently acquired Harry Potter audiobook into mp3 format through the subscription service we use, Rhapsody, so I’ve been toying with it (and also importing it into iTunes on the Mac.

Wowzers, is the MacBook fast. The time it takes to accomplish essentially the same task is seriously slower on the PC. Of course the PC is a couple of years old at this point, but I never felt that I was experiencing any real meaningful slowdowns of my performance. That is, until I hooked into this little speed demon that I’m using right now.

Also, the score on shut downs and reboots in the last week is MacBook 1, PC 12. This thing is amazingly stable and smooth. I do see why Mac users say that the system and the OS are stable, simple, and elegant. Seems like everything I try to do on the PC requires some massive ordeal of a shut down and restart to implement.

Yes, you can watch me live as I read Deathly Hallows (or at least as much of it as I finish before Becky wakes up and demands that I turn off the webcam).

Why would you want to? I have no idea. But you can. And really, isn’t that enough? :)

UPDATE, 6:13 AM: Webcast over; I’m going to sleep. 245 pages down, 514 to go.

Long line moving not-so-fast, at different Wal-Mart, trying to get audiobook version.