Feels-Like-Winter-Thursday Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

-- Winter-qua-winter is still a good month off, but today definitely feels like winter. Daytime highs in the mid-30s F, a good stiff wind making it feel like it's 8 degrees outside. Time to dig out the leggings, I do believe.

-- Introducing people who know each other: magid, re-meet autotruezone.

-- mabfan has Town Meeting this week, so I'm fending for myself most

Comments

[magid]

...and I know Autotruezone how?

[gnomi]

I'm told that you were in attendance at his wedding.

Your name came up last Shabbat at kiddush at Kadimah, and he said he knew you. He hadn't, however, put your LJ handle together with your real-life existence.

[magid]

I've been lucky enough to attend a lot of weddings...

[gnomi]

I didn't think that would be enough of a hint. Hmm. Let me think.

His profile is very bare, but the hint is in God-given and Traumatic.

Or I can just e-mail you offline and tell you his name.

[points]

Hm. Not sure how I feel about the B&N leaving. I remember being very upset when they first moved in (long ago), as they put two other local bookstores that I loved out of business.

[gnomi]

I remember there was a lot of neighborhood concern when they moved in. I don't remember which bookstores they put out of business, but I remember it happening.

[violetcheetah]

i worked at royal discount bookstore in 93. we closed within months of them moving in. though apparently part of that was that the landlord simultaneously decided to raise our rent by a substantial amount. anyway, i don't remember any other nearby bookstores. booksmith didn't go out of business, obviously, though i know that was a worry.

[gnomi]

I remember the Royal Discount! And I remember their going out of business. I'd forgotten that one of the catalysts was the B&N.

[aunt_becca]

when I was doing my Fawn Hall impression this summer ad shredding everything in sight, I found old bank statements in the trunk of my car for a bank which no longer exists! Why did I feel compelled to hold on to them?

[gnomi]

One of the things I found was checks from an account I had at a bank that no longer exists.

I shredded them anyway.

[fauxklore]

When I cleaned out the downstairs closet a few years after my father died, I found checks dating back roughly 30 years, including one to the doctor from when I was born.

I had quite an argument with my mother when I insisted there was no reason to keep them. Nowadays, when I visit, I just surreptitiously shred things early in the morning before she wakes up.

[gnomi]

I've been having an internal debate about some of the items, but mostly I'm going with the "do I *really* need this?" rubric.

[ephemera]

*smiles* - just last night Sc turned to me and said 'we need to get you a scanner', to which I said 'why'. "Identity theft - but mostly because it's fun to destroy things" :D

[gnomi]

There's some visceral thrill about sending things through the shredder. :-)

[vettecat]

Wow. I hadn't heard about the B&N - thanks for the update.