It's gonna be a good month after all

My grocery store happened, by some miracle, to get in a shipment of good peaches.

I've got this Parallels Desktop thing installed which puts me just a wee bit over on my software budget but dude, it's like having an unending supply of new toys - plus, if you want (yes, I know it's stupid, but play along) to run Windows on your Mac, Parallels is the way to go, take my word.

I found a new kind of coffee (Guatemalan) at the good coffee store (which is a really good good coffee store, it turns out).

And best of all, today I downloaded Stieg Larsson's new book, "The Girl Who Played with Fire." I've only listened to the first few pages - interrupted by a phone call - but just enough to recognize it's gonna be another good book by Larsson and to be reminded it's read by Simon Vance, who also read "Tattoo" and is one of my all-time favorite readers. If you've been looking for an excuse to try an audiobook this one is it, especially since, we are reliably informed, at the library lines are long.

I've blown off most of the month on a truly dreadful volume of verbal white noise called "The Last Man Standing," by David Baldacci, which is why there hasn't been an addition to the book list for a while. "Fire" will definitely wind up there though, you can bet on it, so no need to wait.