Extremes in Weather

I understand that Australia's been coping with her own forms of seasonal weather misery over the last week or two in particular. It would be good for both our nations if we could export some relief to them derived from our current weather woes hereabouts. Yes?

Weird Wildlife: Red Crab Migration on Christmas Island

If you're the kind of person who shudders at the sight of crustaceans, don't click.

http://whenonearth.net/red-crab-migration-christmas-island/

An amazing sight...

Venting: On the subject of personal libraries

Since kradical accidentally touched that nerve today...

I'm still working on getting my own collection into a more organized setup, with three or four boxes' worth of purgeable stuff waiting for a yard sale. Maybe in the spring, I'll finally be able to hold that sale.

I don't want to deal with eBay because volume of material, nor with second-hand bookstores because the ones I visit regularly are swamped with product as it is. And the product's fairly diverse at those stores, so I'm considering setting aside a posting later for promoting those stores I've been visiting in order to help them out with "sell-thru" speed and getting some breathing room into their floor-spaces.

There's also a lot of stuff tucked away in other boxes that I want to break out of storage and re-read again. Sooner than later, preferably, in a number of cases.

Example 1: I'd like to rediscover where I hid my copy of FASA's Regula-1 deck plans from the Trek role-playing game.

Example 2: dduane's novel Doctor's Orders is calling out to my brain again...