How Do You Lose a Lawn Mower?

We have an update on the lawn mower saga.

Apparently, the shop has lost our mower. Their best guess is that it was mistakenly shipped off to one of our many local home improvement stores, because they do a lot of contract repair work for them.

Albert finally found this out by talking to the owner of the shop, and also found out that Ms. Customer Service was the one who failed to tag the mowers when they came in. This makes her annoyance with myself and Albert all the more special.

The good news, though, is that the owner of the shop has promised to make it good, one way or another. If he can't find our mower (and he's not too optimistic), they'll replace it with a new one.

I'm okay with that. :)

Sit On Your Butt and Be Counted!

It's been a busy month in on-line fandom. First, there was FanLib. Then, Strikethrough '07.

In response to the latter, a couple of fans decided to see if there was a way to assess exactly how many of Livejournal's journals belong to fans or are used for fannish purposes--discussion, roleplaying, fan fiction, gaming, anime, etc. So, they created fandom_counts, and asked fans to join with all their fannish journals. As of this posting, less than 48 hours after the journal's creation, there are over 31,000 members.

If you'd like your journal(s) to be part of the count, just go to fandom_counts' profile page and join with all your fannish journals.

Or, if you're bored, you can just keep refreshing the page and watch the numbers go up.