The Guardian of the Gates

I volunteered today at Longwood Gardens, for the first time in a while. I only stayed there for about an hour, which is about how long it takes me to get there, so that was kind of annoying. On the other hand, I didn't really want to stay for that long anyway. I mostly just wanted to let them know that I'm still interested in volunteering there, maybe once a month or so. They now have someone else doing most of the cataloging that I had done before, but they'll probably still have library stuff for me to work on.

I had a little trouble getting through the gate, since I didn't have the most recent parking sticker. I still had an old parking sticker, though, and why they would have changed them is beyond me. Did they have a real problem with old volunteers and employees sneaking in after they'd stopped working there? I tend to doubt it. Just another pointless security measure, I guess. There's a lot of that going around, isn't there? It was all sorted out in the end, though, and I should get my new sticker in the mail soon.

Speaking of mail, I finally got my copy of Edward Einhorn's new Oz book, The Living House of Oz. Based on a quick glance through it, it looks like it includes the (former) Flatheads, the Phanfasms, and and alternate-universe version of the Wicked Witch of the West. Sounds cool, huh? Okay, it probably doesn't to YOU, but I think it does. The book is pretty short, so I should be finished with it fairly soon. I'm going to have to temporarily switch the fantasy-reading part of my brain from Discworld to Oz mode, but that shouldn't be too difficult.