Just heard about this book, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which is something I’m definitely going to have to find and read.� Here’s the description from the back:

�It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.� So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton�and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she�s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers�and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you�d actually want to read.

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For those of you Zune owners who don’t know how…

Since Zune software doesn’t actually put your audiobooks onto your Zune, it won’t help you pull them off when you’re done. You have to use the program that transferred them in the first place – for me, that’s OverDrive.

Here’s how to remove audiobooks from your Zune.

1. Connect your Zune to your computer.
2. Open OverDrive.
3. Click on one of your active books (doesn’t matter if you’ve already transferred it or not).
4. Click the Transfer button:
   
5. Click the Next button.
6. Click the Advanced Options button:
   
7. Click the Browse button:
   
8. Right-click on your OverDrive folder and click “Delete“:
   

All of your audiobooks will be removed from your Zune. That’s exactly what I wanted to do, but if you’re interested in only deleting one book, you can open the OverDrive folder and right-click/delete individual files.

Kinda kludgy, but if you’re like me, you’re really just excited that there’s a way to get these files off of your Zune.� =)

I travel a lot.  I spend four days a week in another town because I’m working with a team supporting an EMR implementation at a new hospital.

I have a pattern, a rhythm going.  I stay at the same hotel every week.  I leave a “crate” (a plastic tub/box) at the hotel when I’m in Indy so I don’t have to drag so much back and forth.  And what I do drag back and forth is pretty much always the same stuff, except I switch out the clothes.

So why is it that THIS week, I’ve forgotten so many things?  I’ve become accustomed to living a certain way, having certain things while I’m away – and I’ve left a large number of them at home!  There’s a running list, but in just one day, here’s what I’ve discovered I’ve left:

• My food (this is an extended stay hotel with a full kitchen, so I bring food from home)
• My cell phone and bluetooth earpiece chargers
• My Zune charger
• My sweatshirt (doesn’t sound like it, but this is a big deal – it’s freezing cold here and you don’t want to wear a business suit jacket to the free breakfast, while lounging around, or while chillin’ with the girls.  worse, you don’t want to wear it to a smoky bowling alley, which is where we’re going tomorrow night.)
• The movie I was going to watch and then mail in (so I could have the next one on the queue this weekend in time for next week)
• The DVD TV series I’ve been watching.  (Yes, I have cable here, but I work from noon to ten.  The only thing on TV after ten is animals and sex.  Also, in the TV series, it was season finale time, so I’m dying to know what happens next!)
• My facewash (hotel soap doesn’t remove the makeup well at all, and leaves a nasty feeling behind)

And the straw that broke the camel’s back, the thing that’s making me want to pull my hair out: my freaking toothbrush and toothpaste!

Yes, I can replace these and live without most of the rest (I have to buy food and facewash, too, now) – but I just cannot express how annoyed and grouchy I am about this week.  Not a good way to start a week, and I have three long days ahead.  And I have to start this one by showering, dressing, then going to work early so I can buy at toothbrush and toothpaste – and brush AT work.  Yuck.

How’s your day starting out?

He is risen!

Not sure what that has to do with eggs, but I don’t get a lot of things.� *shrug*

Neighbors decorate for every holiday – one of my favorites of theirs is Easter.� Among many other things, they tie eggs to the branches of a tree that starts off dead and naked and then blooms with the eggs still on.� =)

She was pretending to be a pirate – lens caps make great eyepatches, if you don’t mind holding them up.� =)

Autumn wanted to take a picture.

They were coming over for lunch.� Her daddy, who’s got the flu, said he was excited about infecting the Aukermans…� Daisy suggested we go out to a buffet so he could infect the world instead.� He started plotting the takeover, and enlisted his daughter’s diabolical aid:

She’s trying to figure out how to get Daddy’s lemon ice…

Autumn said, “Take a picture with me and Tara and Davad!” (That’s how she pronounces David’s name.)