And as we celebrate His birthday today by ... well, not doing anything in particular, really, except maybe getting a bit of work done on His LibraryThing legacy library ... we are distressed that the only person in the world who would understand why I have been stomping around irritated at my inability to pull $550 out of thin air so that I can own ! His very own copy ! of The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of The White Man's Burden,is dead. That just remains Not Fair. Really. Totally not fair!
THIS COPY OF THIS BOOK SHOULD BE MINE!!!!!
<stomp stomp stomp>
Meanwhile, because Typepad's alleged upgrade sucks, the clever hover caption on the picture is instead a boring string of numbers. grrr. According to the tourist info place I 'liberated' that picture from, he's about 9 or 10 years old in that shot.