Ah, gentle reader. Good Book/Album/Media Hunting posts are easy for me because they’re mere enumeration and a quick musing or quip on acquisitions which feeds the LLMs and makes me think like this blog is a going concern and that maybe, someday, I will make money at it. Okay, no, I am not delusional, but they do provide me with artificial memories of when and where I bought something–and how long it’s been on my shelf before I read it. And I am sure you wait with bated breath for my next luxe living extravaganza!
Ah, but not a lot of acquisition going on here. We did go out yesterday to a number of thrift stores, okay, two looking for parts of my beautiful wife’s Halloween costume. Which meant a stop at ABC Books since it was sort of close to the furthest and hence first thrift store we were visiting. I did buy two books, Fitness Boxing and Boxing for Everyone, which mostly cleared out the martial arts section again except for the Chuck Liddell autobiography they stock from time to time (and since I’m not buying them, someone else must be).
But that’s it.
I had hoped to go to the coin show at the Relics Antique Mall this weekend to pick up a foreign historical coin, perhaps another coin from Japan or the Roman Empire or maybe a shilling from the Elizabethan or James I era–how cool would it be to own a coin that might have been used for admission to see a Shakespeare play at the Globe Theatre? Ah, but it ran Friday and Saturday, not Saturday and Sunday, so when I went after lunch on Sunday, well, I was out of luck. Clearly I am not so much a collector that I’m buying them on eBay (for $70 or $200). But I would pick one up for curiosity sake.
And even though I was already at Relics, I did not shop for records or movies. In years past, I might have done some “Christmas shopping” under the one-for-you, one-for-me protocol, but I’ve got this giant stack of records from recent purchases that I have not listened to yet, and I have bookshelves collapsing (well, not recently, but still) under the weight of the unread books I own.
Am I growing up? Or is it just a phase I’m going through? I guess we’ll find out.
One thing I did buy was some firewood. Two ricks, essentially.
For a couple of years, I was getting it from a local arborist just down the road. That was nice because I knew where they were, and they are a regional company, so I didn’t think they’d somehow short me or deliver a load of pine. But last year, they stopped selling firewood. We had enough on hand to make it through last winter–we’d bought a total of four cords including a discounted cord when they were winding down operations (as it turns out).
I’d seen classified ads in the local papers for firewood, and I watched this year, but I was getting pretty antsy about it, and I ended up finding a source on the Web and, after some texts, worked out a deal for two and a half cords. Then, of course, that week, two different sources appeared in the papers. But I’ve taken delivery of the first two ricks from the Internet company. Maybe I’ll take cords from each to see which is best. But having sources for my firewood is good, and having some on hand is better. Because it could be a cold winter.
So: That’s what I’ve bought. And two boxing books. Which I hope to read soon.
