I had better hurry up and finish reading Devils on the Deep Blue Sea quickly! I just went to renew it and on the same page I happened to notice that I am now #2 in the queue for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I was approximately #600 when I signed up about four to six weeks ago. I’m glad I stayed strong and didn’t buy the hardback when I saw it numerous times in stores - now I can read it for free! (I haven’t re-read any of the Harry Potter books.) Has anybody noticed there hasn’t been as much hype over this one as there was for Order of the Phoenix? I remember people were climbing over each other in bookstores for that one, but Half-Blood Prince seems to have been easy to find since it came out.

Also, I spotted an interesting adopt-a-highway sign on Purcell Road near the intersection with Dumfries Road in Prince William County. It said the highway was adopted by “Republic of Koznia.” At first I thought that was the country of origin for Tom Hanks’s character in The Terminal, but that turns out to be Krakozhia. The nearest other reference I can find is a Justice League plotline involving Kaznia, which a single poster on a Justice League message board spelled as Koznia. So what’s up with this adopt-a-highway thing?