I recently discovered the site LibraryThing, which lets you catalog your books online and see how your collection matches with other people's. The social networking part of the experience is particularly nice. Right now, I'm busily engaged in entering all my books. I've been wanting to catalog them for a long time now, but I haven't had the energy. One nice feature is that you can type in the ISBN, and it will look up all the relevant information for you. It's a big time saver, although it's not always perfect. For example, there is a field for "Original Language" for the case of translations, but this is almost always blank.

Home from Cozumel (the trip was my wife's birthday/anniversary present to me) where we went diving and snorkling. It's a great place, although still quite battered from Hurricane Wilma. Most of the trees are still largely denuded of their leaves, and the reefs, especially the shallow ones, have really suffered. They're covered with sand. I came home with a ruptured eardrum. I was diving on the last day--we went down to about 65 feet on the second dive. On the way up, though, I couldn't get the air to clear from my right ear. The pressure just kept building up. If you have trouble equalizing on the way down, you just scrub the dive, but there's not much you can do when you're already at depth. You have to come up, after all. So I ascended, and eventually I felt the pressure release, and the pain went away. I thought no more of it until the plane ride home. Then my ear really started to hurt. It too, eventually cleared, but this time I had some blood coming out of my ear. (Usually a sign that the eardrum has been ruptured.)