My Book Sales Bring All the Boys to the Yard
Right. So. Today was the Friends of the Library half-price sale, and if you weren't there, you suck. ... Okay, I'll make an exception for people who aren't currently in Texas. The rest of you suck.
I was there from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM. A lot of stuff happened, but I'm going to give you the highlights.
First, I was in the Holding Area until about 12:30 PM or so with Decadent and the engineering league's adorable, strong guys. Things weren't alphabatized properly, but I don't care. We had two major book dealers come through. The first was Book Nook. Book Nook dropped off a cartload at around 9:30 (the actual sale started at 9:00), and headed out for more. By noon they were ready to leave, and we started boxing. They had about five shopping carts full of books.
The second dealer was a man named Wigley. I don't know who he worked for, but he'd come by every once in while, starting at about 9:15, and drop off three good-sized boxes stacked to the brim with books before he went out for more. When I went to eat at 12:30, he had about 12 boxes back in Holding. He checked out at around 4:00 or 4:30, and just for grins and giggle I counted how many boxes he had. The total ended up as a whopping 23 boxes of books.
When I returned from fooding at 1:30 or there abouts, I just started wandering, and I wandered back to the Sci-fi/Horror section (since I manage them). One of the bulk author sections was fucked up so I was dealing with that and didn't really notice the woman and her kid with a shopping cart back there. Later I wandered by again and glanced at the cart; it was literally overflowing with sci-fi and fantasy paperbacks. I came back I little while later and they were grabbing the horror paperbacks (and she killed one of my shelves while grabbing the John Updikes that make up my U section in Horror).
Naturally I was a little suspicious. I thought she was another used book dealer. I later learned that the reason she had wiped both sections clean of paperbacks? She's sending them to soldiers in Iraq. It's wonderful that she's willing to spend so much to help out the boys and girls who are fighting in a war that shouldn't be happening anyway. Brings a tear to your eye, really.
That was more or less the really good parts of my day, aside from the fact that HOLY SHIT I CAN SEE THROUGH MY SHELVES. I'm tired as hell, so I'm gonna go now.
I was there from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM. A lot of stuff happened, but I'm going to give you the highlights.
First, I was in the Holding Area until about 12:30 PM or so with Decadent and the engineering league's adorable, strong guys. Things weren't alphabatized properly, but I don't care. We had two major book dealers come through. The first was Book Nook. Book Nook dropped off a cartload at around 9:30 (the actual sale started at 9:00), and headed out for more. By noon they were ready to leave, and we started boxing. They had about five shopping carts full of books.
The second dealer was a man named Wigley. I don't know who he worked for, but he'd come by every once in while, starting at about 9:15, and drop off three good-sized boxes stacked to the brim with books before he went out for more. When I went to eat at 12:30, he had about 12 boxes back in Holding. He checked out at around 4:00 or 4:30, and just for grins and giggle I counted how many boxes he had. The total ended up as a whopping 23 boxes of books.
When I returned from fooding at 1:30 or there abouts, I just started wandering, and I wandered back to the Sci-fi/Horror section (since I manage them). One of the bulk author sections was fucked up so I was dealing with that and didn't really notice the woman and her kid with a shopping cart back there. Later I wandered by again and glanced at the cart; it was literally overflowing with sci-fi and fantasy paperbacks. I came back I little while later and they were grabbing the horror paperbacks (and she killed one of my shelves while grabbing the John Updikes that make up my U section in Horror).
Naturally I was a little suspicious. I thought she was another used book dealer. I later learned that the reason she had wiped both sections clean of paperbacks? She's sending them to soldiers in Iraq. It's wonderful that she's willing to spend so much to help out the boys and girls who are fighting in a war that shouldn't be happening anyway. Brings a tear to your eye, really.
That was more or less the really good parts of my day, aside from the fact that HOLY SHIT I CAN SEE THROUGH MY SHELVES. I'm tired as hell, so I'm gonna go now.