Dear Alien Anthropologists

Two full weeks of two book covers a day and not a single gratitude post to break it up. What is going on here? Last weekend was the end of my vacation. My vacation was really kind of like 3 mini-vacations. The first part had me here at home hanging out with our friend who was visiting from Sweden (though I did go into work one morning). The second had me driving up the coast for a couple of days just hanging out with my mother. And the third saw me driving across the state on Saturday night in order to go to a small county fair on Sunday morning…