{"id":30357,"date":"2022-09-23T15:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T20:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30357"},"modified":"2022-09-23T15:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T20:15:46","slug":"the-latest-scandal-of-brian-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/23\/the-latest-scandal-of-brian-j\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Scandal Of Brian J."},"content":{"rendered":"

Gentle reader, you might have noticed no Good Album Hunting or Good Book Hunting posts recently, even though the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library held its autumn book sale last week.<\/p>\n

I did not go.<\/em><\/p>\n

I alluded to this in book reports leading up to the event–that I might not go–but in the end, I did not go.<\/p>\n

I had work for both my employer and my longtime client that chained me to my desk for twelve or fourteen hours a day, which made it difficult for me to get up to the fairgrounds on a weekday. Although I thought about taking a change of clothes to the NFFF Memorial Stair Climb<\/a> and running through the sale briefly on Saturday, half price day, between the second and third of my stadia last weekend<\/a>, but I did not–I couldn’t remember how long the stair climb actually took, so I demurred. I also did not want to go up on Sunday afternoon, bag day–in my experience, it’s pretty picked over by then, and I would not have found much.<\/p>\n

So I did not go.<\/p>\n

And, gentle reader, when my mother-in-law downsized earlier in the year, it broke me<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Well, all right, it didn’t break my spirit, but it really dampened my enthusiasm for book or record buying for a time. For, you see, I could get away with putting a couple or a couple of dozen books or albums on my stuffed book or record shelves, filling gaps in the to-read shelves created as I actually read books.<\/p>\n

But the books and records we received from my mother in law were boxes’ worth. I have two boxes of books and a couple atop those boxes in my office that I cannot fit on my current shelves. I will enumerate them when I can find a place to put them. I have a box of records under the desk with the 60s folk music she favors as I have no room on the record shelves until I build more.<\/p>\n

So, gentle reader, for the nonce, I have enough<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Or, more to the point, I cannot fit the amount that I would normally accumulate at the book sale into the existing storage.<\/p>\n

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’ll run up to ABC Books from time to time or pick up some records at antique malls as I do my Christmas shopping as long as the prices haven’t gotten too out of hand.<\/p>\n

But a book sale? Not until next spring at the earliest.<\/p>\n

And here I know you hang onto my look at what I bought!<\/em> posts. Maybe I’ll do a Musical Balance post since I haven’t done one in…. almost a year? Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gentle reader, you might have noticed no Good Album Hunting or Good Book Hunting posts recently, even though the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library held its autumn book sale last week. I did not go. I alluded to this in book reports leading up to the event–that I might not go–but in the end, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30358,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30357\/revisions\/30358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}