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A few weeks ago a couple of boxes appeared in the mail room of the library where I work. The address label said DONATION ENCLOSED, which equals somebody else’s problem, so I didn’t look at them very closely. Then yesterday a co-worker mentioned that they appeared to be from L. Ron Hubbard! I had a better look today, and sure enough:

And of course I had to see what was inside. And it seemed that some sort of documentation was in order. So here’s me, heading back down to the mail room, camera in hand, imagining getting a box open, wondering if it would have actual poison in it, seeing myself collapsed on the floor, camera gone flying…. I was brave and opened one up anyway. And of course it was just books and a DVD. Maybe they had poison on them, I don’t know. I feel fine so far. I did feel kind of dirty touching them though.

Anyway, it was LOTS of books:

And that’s just from one box! They sent us two times this amount of crap! What do they think we are, a Crap Library?

I had to get a close-up of the DVD, since it has a picture of L. Ron himself on the cover. Click to embiggen …if you dare.

Then I put all the books and the DVD back in the box, and closed it up again. SEP Field engaged!

And so we’ve been quit of smoking for four years now. Woo hoo! According to the quit meter, that means:

Over $15,300 not spent on cigarettes — and that’s at four-years-ago prices!

AND

Between the two of us, over 51,000 cigarettes not smoked. YUCK!

It’s that time again, kids. Time for a new palindrome! And the featured palindrome this month will be:

Oh no! Don Ho!

Thoughts of Don Ho ought to cheer up the darkest, dreariest February day. Except: I just found out he died last year! Oh no! Rest in peace, Don Ho.