Okay, the fifth volume of Pogo – The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips is officially on sale at Amazon. In fact, they're telling me that I can get FREE delivery Today if I order $35 of qualifying items within 2 hrs and 11 mins. I've also heard from folks who already had copies delivered by Amazon or bought copies in bookstores last weekend. I am quite pleased because getting Pogo books off to press was a major problem in my life for several years and now it's pretty darned simple.
Would someone who loves them even half as much as I do please go do the first review on Amazon?
Let's see what else I can put in this post. I'm not paying much attention to politics this week. Even more than usual, it seems to be one of those periods when no matter what you believe is happening or want to believe will happen, you can find some sage pundit who'll tell you exactly what you want to believe. I'm not going to nag you about registering to vote or actually voting because I like to believe that anyone smart enough to come to this site is smart enough to not need that urging.
I haven't mentioned it lately but I continue to get 3-4 calls a day from building contractors or their representatives. Each of the contractors purchased somewhere a list of people who've recently had work done on their homes and much to my displeasure, I'm on that list. They want to know what my next project will be and to tell me that they have someone in my neighborhood who'd be glad to pop in and give me a free estimate. Some are polite and honest about it. Some lie and read a script that goes, "We spoke six months ago and you were very nice to me and asked me to call back about now because you'd be ready to do more work on your home, blah blah blah…"
I am polite to the polite ones and uncharacteristically rude (for me) to the liars. I told one this morning, "Do you really think I want work done on my home by someone who started our relationship by lying to me?" It bothers me that obviously, this works sometimes. So obviously does lying in politics.