Country: 104.198.4.221, North America, US

City: -122.0574 California, United States

I'm usually a huge fan of short stories, but I had a difficult time reading more of these than expected. As others have mentioned, the choice of short stories is up to the editor, and this year it just wasn't up to what I've read previous years. That's not to say everyone will dislike the stories as many of them are good, but this time it just wasn't my favorite.

In our old 40yr old house, We had a bad roach infestation and nothing seemed to get rid of them long term. Raid roach and ant spray worked great on contact (they would literally die 2 seconds after spraying them). My mom went to Walmart and picked up some this Combat Source Roach gel (we call it roach peanut butter...dont ask) and I kid you not...after about a week we literally saw no more roaches!

I was losing ground in my war of the closets. My wife's sweaters had taken over, it seems like they are multiplying like rabbits. First one shelf then another shelf and a third till there was no more room for my ties with shoelaces. That's all the room that was left over for me. I had to do something as not only was this a space issue, it was a war of the dominant sexes, and I had to win so I resorted to technical weaponry. I went online and found these vacuum space saver bags and ordered them. They came quite promptly as I am an Amazon prime member. Well, a peace treaty was signed, with stipulations that would employ the space-saving bags to store her sweaters. It was so easy, you placed the sweaters in the bag, use the vacuum pump that's included to suck all the air out and reduce the size of the pile of sweaters, and then place them on the shelf. Well, we cleared about a third of the closet which is all I needed. The bags work well, and are easy-to-use and are cost competitive with other brands. I like the fact that you get 15 bags and the pump. It just seems like ordering one or two bags is a waste as you don't accomplish much. The bags are thick and seal well and should last quite a while. I think we will also use a couple of them to reduce space in our suit cases when we travel. I like them and will give them a four-star rating and recommendation for you to get some if your closet is becoming a nightmare.

I have always had problems with Roxio products. With version 12 Pro, I had problems with it shutting down at 99% being finished, the VideoWave program or whatever it's called shutting down about 50% of the time on a project. When I would do it the second time or third it would finally work. At least it would backup 50 GB of info on a 50 GB Blu-ray blank. Now I tried it with NXT and it backed up 1.5 GB only and told me it was finished!!! I'm through with this product, but don't know where else to go because CyberLink Power2Go also has problems with backing up this data. They're both good for something but not good on the other hand. I don't know where to go now. Maybe back to 12 Pro; at least it backed up most of my 50 GB of data onto a Blu-ray.