Mission accomplished

I have the specified breakfast foods in my home.


Today's earrings: camels, suns

Bedtime reading: Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

Finally!

I'm sure he's probably a nice enough guy when he's not sleep-deprived and having cameras constantly stuck in his face, but I am glad Ricky is gone from my television.


Today's earrings: camels, lizards

Bedtime reading: Ashes to Ashes, Emma Lathen

The Waste Land

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
- - T.S. Eliot

Today's earrings: camels, lizards

Bedtime reading: The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell

Cash & carry

Compare & contrast, concerning the import of shoes:
US: http://hotdocs.usitc.gov/docs/tata/hts/bychapter/0701C64.pdf
Canada: http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/general/publications/tariff2007/01-99/ch64ne.pdf
Australia: http://www.customs.gov.au/webdata/resources/tariff/chapter64goods_a.pdf
Ireland: http://www.revenue.ie/pdf/04_12_CETI_06.pdf


Today's earrings: camels, coins

Bedtime reading: "The Mule," Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov

Elementals

Approach near the fire.
Let us go respire the air.
These apricots and these peaches make me and to come water in mouth.
How many this earth produce?
-- Pedro Carolino


Today's earrings: camels, fish

Bedtime reading: Not To Mention Camels, R.A. Lafferty