It’s usually around my birthday that I try to publish the annual Things I Want list. This time I’m about a week late, which is pretty good by my standards and releases everyone from the pressure to actually get me anything that’s on the list. Wanting material things these days seems vaguely embarrassing, considering everything else that’s going on. Then again, it’s the ‘everything else that’s going on’ that makes me long for pretty/fun/useful distractions. So be things as they may, here’s this year’s list.