Comic-Con 2010 is officially over and we have unloaded and returned the truck. Happily, not in 100 degree weather after yesterday's 10-hour drive broken up by a quick visit with the Boys in Bakersfield (my brother and his partner and the dogs ( Read more... )

Apparently I can only think of things to post about when I'm grumpy.

Yesterday I stopped to pickup the mail down on the main road and discovered with quite a bit of surprise that  our group mail boxes (one group of individual boxes and a second pillar for large parcels) had been consolidated into one sleek new pillar (with a total of one less large ( Read more... )

I have now been home for a whole week after consecutive weekends in two distant states trying to sell books during an economic panic. Interestingly enough, people are still buying out of print books with some enthusiasm...possibly because you actually have something to hold in your hands when the money has melted away.

Disjointed items of ( Read more... )

October vanished in a whirl of bookfairs and travel and weather. We exhibited at the Seattle Antiquarian Bookfair early in the month; the show opened the day after the stock market plunged 900 points. Weirdly, that seemed to bring out the buyers, maybe because they could actually see something for their money. So of course, we bought many books as ( Read more... )

Is it going to be a particularly hard winter (weather-wise, I mean...we already know about the economics of the coming months)? We've been bombarded by gargantuan acorns clattering on the roof, rolling down the decks, bouncing off windows, piling into huge masses on the drive for the last several weeks. I don't ever remember them as so intrusive or ( Read more... )

Since I haven't been, why would you be ( Read more... )

Iz ded from teh crowds ( Read more... )

And no fires here at the moment, but still a great deal of smoke in the air from all of the weekend excitement all over the northern part of the state. It's going to be a long, flaming summer if it's already this bad in June.

Random progress notes:

On the over-long kayak trip a week ago, one of the highlights was the flock of turkey vultures (12-15) ( Read more... )

The Pasadena book fair last weekend was quite productive (even profitable!), although every year the dealer list gets shorter...unclear of show management will be able to justify it again next year without some clever rethinking. Still, we got to see favorite customers and good friends among the dealers and the weather was pleasant enough, even in ( Read more... )

Blue jay just lit on the Japanese maple outside my window and distracted my eye. I am supposed to be doing final prep for this weekend's book fair but apparently I can only post under deadline pressure. But just passing thoughts ( Read more... )