This isn’t such a bad deal, if you’re into that sort of thing: iTunes Plus, which is the DRM-free, 256kbps version of iTunes, usually runs you a buck-twenty-nine a song. But if you hit the iTunes plus section of the site, then find one of the albums that’s also in the “Biggest iTunes Albums of All Time for $7.99″ promotion, you’ll end up with DRM-free albums for $7.99.

This assumes you actually want one of the most popular albums from iTunes. But I did… and picked up Lily Allen’s album. Hot cha.

Finished Blink, and was well-pleased of it. It makes a convincing case for further study of poetry and its elements (though poetry is never mentioned).

If you try to call me for the next couple days, you likely won’t get me. I’m in Sophia, NC at a Baptist mountain camp that DPI sometimes uses for teacher retreats. I don’t get good signal up here, and if today is any indication, I may not be online all that much either. The Internet was down for about three hours this afternoon.

It’s also raining so hard that I may float away. And there’s hail. So yeah, this is a storm.

Continuing with my somewhat obsessive non-poem readings of late, I began Malcom Gladwell’s Blink last night, and expect to finish it tonight before I go to sleep. I also brought with me a copy of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, which I do not plan to finish quite so quickly. One might think that all this non-fiction would have an effect on my thinking about fiction, but if it is, I’m not noticing.

Also, I’m writing a technical manual right now. Zzzz. But that has to be done before the 17th so I can’t drag it out.