Productivity up...

I finished JPod last night. Whenever I find a book I'm enjoying reading, the ending is always somewhat bittersweet. In JPod there were a bunch of extra blank pages at the end of the book, so I thought I had more reading to do before the actual ending. I didn't feel psychologically prepared to end the book. Wah... I have another couple of books in the queue and next week we go on vacation and I get to visit one of my favorite bookstores in the world. It's nothing fancy, but I think it's located over one of those mysterious electromagnetic fields like they have in the show Lost, because every book I buy there instantly becomes my new favorite book. I also finished the back of sweater #1 and am moving onto a sleeve. This is not exactly following the directions, but since the sleeves lack any kind thought-provoking pattern, I decided to alternate interesting knitting with mind-numbing knitting in an effort to keep my interest piqued. Finally, I've been wanting to post this picture...just because it's a reality reminder and I want to be able to refer to it when I get a bit full of McLife in North America. It's from the Guatemalan newspaper Siglo XXI and is about a man who built a house out of chicken wire and water bottles stuffed with plastic sacks. This is not a green eco-choice, but ingenuity born of necessity. Thoughts?