Day 29: What goes around, comes around

Today has been another day with boxes to unpack. If we want to claim for anything we have to do it within 7 days, and that is approaching pretty rapidly. The packing has been incredibly variable, from the ridiculous over-packing of unimportant articles to the complete omission of protection for things. This box for example had no packing materials at all just two girls, thrown in willy-nilly! So far breakages are at the few and minor level, but starting to reach making-me-grumpy proportions, just one step away from going-to-claim-just-to-make-a-point territory.

For better or worse, this process is making us unpack more of the miscellaneous boxes than we would have done otherwise. Maybe it will make the place seem more homely, or maybe it will just make us feel swamped in 'stuff' again, only time will tell.

Today we received a book we ordered, "Birds of New York - Field Guide" so that we can start to identify some of the birds that we see in the garden and elsewhere. It's a real birdwatching for non-twitchers book with the following chapters: Birds that are mostly black, Birds that are mostly black and white, Birds that are mostly blue,...,Birds that have prominent green,... Where we find a bird that is mostly brown with prominent red I don't know but I can get it down to two chapters. Along with the book we had ordered a couple of story CDs for the girls, as they tend to listen to a few on the way to and from picking up Exile #3 from school. Amazon.com have therefore started to send me targeted recommendations based on this small set of data. Here was their first attempt at a CD recommendation:

Based on your purchase of "Dr Seuss Presents: Fox in Sox [Audio CD]" Amazon recommends: "Justin Timberlake: FutureSex/LoveSounds [Audio CD]".

I'm thinking:

1. They probably have not got all that much in common.
2. Did they really confuse Sox and Sex?
3. If so, what other recommendations can I expect?
4. ??