I came home this afternoon from my lunch/read and PJ's/read to find a strange car parked in the driveway. It looked sort of like my neighbor's--the one who helped me with the battery--but I thought his was sharper and newer. Maybe a hand-me-down to one of the kids?

I decided to call the sheriff's office and ask them to run the plate, but couldn't find my cell phone. I was all set to go back to PJ's to see if it had fallen out of my pocket there, but instead first checked the couch just inside the door. There it was. I explained the situation to the sheriff's non-emergency number, and about five minutes later a deputy came by, ran the number, and it DOES belong to my neighbor. Just in case I was wrong about the owner, I had waited outside. (I figured YD would have been really mad at me if I'd waited inside, and gotten raped and murdered by a madman who had left his car in the driveway.)

Okay--I have no idea why it's in my driveway, but it might be related to the work that goes on with the street repaving. He (the neighbor or one of his sons) may not have been able to get in his driveway and figured it would be okay to leave it in mine. I rather imagine that, at some point, it will disappear as magically as it appeared.

Today's mail was delivered to my door! The mail carrieir came up the driveway and honked. I went out and she had three packages, plus a couple of envelopes. It's a newish carrier and we chatted briefly. She asked how I like my Escape (she has one) and I told her that if I wasn't home and there was something large, it needed to be left on the steps under the patio cover.

The packages? A total of FIVE books, and only one of them was mind candy. There were two by Leonard Slain: I have one in hardback (The Alphabet Versus the Goddess) but I guess the price of his other one PLUS the Goddess book was sufficiently attractive that I bought both. I've read the first, and am not sure I agree with his hypothesis, but there are those who do.

I also bought the first volume of a "Women in History" series, as well as one about the discovery of the ancient Indus civilization. I need to read that one first, since that's one of the topics of the next World Civ unit.

Book number five was mind candy--the third in Catherine Coulter's FBI books.

Meanwhile, I am reading Dead Man Rising, by Lilith Saintcrow.

I think I'll set TWO alarm clocks for tomorrow morning.