Hi all! I've been poking around in RP - somehow I missed out on it before Houzz. I thought I would just jump in on this conversation. I have had to limit myself to only keeping books that I know I will re-read. I rarely get to buy them new, so most of the books I buy at library bookstores and nowadays online shopping for used books is very helpful. Many books I am trying to find are out of print, and eventually library copies are so well-loved that they are withdrawn and can't be replaced.....I am not a fan of ebooks (much prefer the physical for many reasons) but I notice that some out of print books are showing up as ebook editions. I work in a library, and have a few library cards, so I can tell you from personal experience that all libraries do not have the same policies. In our county system, we have to buy from a specific vendor, and the books are mostly processed when we receive them. We just do a couple of small things before they are on the shelf, and that factors into to the higher replacement cost. The processing fee is a separate thing and varies by item type. Once we did accept replacements but they had to have the same ISBN among other criteria, and it was just easier to switch to a charge. As an aside, only a few weeks into my working at the library, someone gave me such a wonderful site : www. fantasticfiction.co.uk. I use and recommend it constantly, it is invaluable to those of us who want to read series in order. Dawn

Thank you, tech-familiar folks. I just entered a PIN. We may still lock up the BluRay remote -- which has 'gone missing' in the past. Lately, we've told guests they could request the remote from our management. Most of our guests hardly watch TV. They don't fly all the way to Maui for that. We do have guests coming next month who may want the remote. Their DD is now 8. It's their fifth or sixth visit. (They reserved a crib the first time. They say their DD still thinks they own this place. LOL)

Sorry, I was confusing. I had OTA with an antenna (and I still do), but my favorite channel sometimes lost its sound. My wife persuaded me to get cable, which I did, but I decided to replace the cable with DirectTV, because of the internet perks. However, I can't get that same channel on DTV's internet service (it comes in fine on my TV).

I started watching "The Thing About Pam" but I found it too depressing and chilling. It shows pretty well the way a psychopath can sometimes easily manipulate people, but it also shows how police and prosecutors can sometimes take the overly simple and easy way out. Not to give it all away, (although you can google the way the case went) the husband they pinned the murder on had three friends he was with who testified he was with them on a game night, plus he made a verifiable munchies stop at an Arby's during the time the murder took place. This was not only discounted, but if these guys LIED and gave him a false alibi, they should have been prosecuted for lying and being co-conspirators in a murder. They never followed up, which is a big red flag. That's why the feds ended up investigating the prosecutor's office after the fiasco was over. Thank goodness the husband had a good lawyer!! So that's why it was hard for me to watch, the chilling behavior of a psychopath as far as being psychologically manipulative and not having any feelings of guilt for doing some icily calculated evil. They can pass lie detector tests because of that too. And also the inane "confirmation bias" of the police, that was hard to stomach as being entertaining, even in a fictional account. After suffering through about 2/3 of "Inventing Anna" (another dramatization of the behavior of a manipulative psychopath and institutional ineptness/easy gullibility) I couldn't take it any more, so I haven't had the stomach for "The Dropout." Gonna have to give the others a try though. If you've never been around a psychopath you might find their behavior "weird" but that is only in hindsight. They really can do heinous things and not bat an eyelash, and often let themselves either "forget" or get confused about the details, they live in a world where truth is whatever suits them at the moment, they don't relate to it the way a normal person does, they perceive the world as something that revolves around their needs 24/7 and they can bend to their immediate whims in an ongoing way . . . they never reach a "bottom line" or a "moment of truth." It just doesn't exist in their mental toolbox. The mental toolboxes of science and math are ways of thinking and perceiving the world that can help us counter psychopathic influences. One can go too much into any discipline, but they are definitely a counter balance. That's one reason I went into the science field, to expand my mental toolbox.