What's on my calendar--January?

I'm quite pleased with myself this year—I found a calendar I liked for a good price in August or September, bought it, found it again before the end of the year, transferred over all of my calendar data, and hung it before the first event I note: J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday, today. That's some damn rare togetherness. I mean, finding a calendar I like is remarkable all by itself... I've found two over the years, and both I've never been able to find again in years after. For calendars, I like art: photographs, there just doesn't seem to be enough there for a month of viewing. I like color. And then, finding 12 examples of colorful art I'd want to look at for a month assembled into one calendar? Apparently, very difficult. But this year I have 12 gorgeous Japanese woodcuts coming, and that's a bright thing to look forward to.

Anyway. Figure y'all might be interested to read a selection of the things I've bothered to note on the calendar and transfer from year to year...

( More like Tolkien's birthday )

What've you guys got on your calendars this month? I'm always curious to add new bits o' interest.

Does anyone want...?

So, there's a pile of stuff that I don't need that I'm planning to sell/donate/leave in flaming paper bag on doorstep after ringing bell and running. I'd be happy to mail it to any one of you who's interested, so sing out if you want a package containing:

• 3 unused rolls of Kodak Advantix film, 25 exposures, 400 speed.
  
  I picked these up in a hurry 2.5 years ago, at a K-Mart in Raton, New Mexico, on a roadtrip from Colorado to Oakland... Only to find when I was back in the car that they didn't actually fit in a normal camera like mine. They've got a lemon-shaped cross-section. They come in neat little oval plastic cylinder sealed case things.
  
  
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: The Game
  
  A board game for ages 8 and up. Seems all nice; picked it up at a garage sale, but I don't think they used it either.
  
  
• Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone Trivia Game
  
  Same deal: nice, unused, I think.
  
  
• Witchcicle lights: 300 green, purple, and orange icicle lights.
  
  Seemed really cool, but I realized that I don't actually want to attact more people to my house at Halloween...
  
  
• Personalitease: a party sort of game where you guess who's got what quirk, I seem to remember. Me, I don't seem to have parties that involve party games, but I seem to recall that it wasn't bad, for those of you who might have such parties...
  
  I bet I have more stuff lying around, but that's all that's visible from where I'm sitting, which is a good start. Don't be shy, I'll send any of it to anyone...