...that make it fun. Despite stresses, illness, deadlines and general responsibility, there are the pleasant little things that can make a day special. Today was such a day when I took a dozen or more of books and books on CD that I've read into a local bookstore and got $80 credit. I tend to only keep classics and antiquarian books, but that doesn't mean that I don't greatly enjoy buzzing through the modern stuff. You know modern books will become classics, but you usually sense what kind of stuff from which the book is made in order for it to eventually become a classic, and those usually aren't the light reading material. There are a few fantasy and sci-fi series that I think will stick around for a long while like Piers, Salvatore, and Rowling, but that's not the norm for the zillions of modern writers out there.
Usually I resell books on Amazon if I can undercut the lowest offered book price and still make $10 or more. However, that's not always possible, so the remaining books go to The Book Alley in Lakewood. My loot today involved The Lord of the Flies, Clockwork Orange, Dune, Freakanomics and a couple books on CDs for my travel time. Still plenty of credit available too, so I look forward to future visits.
What promised to be a somewhat lifeless day full of work and definitely a bad headache instead had a great start making the headache an annoyance instead of a mood driver.
