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[George]

I don't think I've paid a fortune (or anything much over list price) for a book or score, but I definitely have a few things that are worth much more now.

One of my better book "holdings" is a huge 3-volume Chinese-American dictionary published early in the last century. We have some Chinese artifacts in the family and it attracted my interest at a library book sale where it was priced at $100. I went home, did a bit of research on it, and decided if it was still there the next day, which was to be their half-price day, I'd buy it. It was, and I did. It flew right under the radar. For my $50 I got what seems to be an exceedingly rare volume, a lessor edition of which was priced at $2K-$3K online, and this was a good 15 years ago. I should check it again.

Wow!  That's amazing, ChasSmith!

[George]

Oh, look!  It's Page Five!!

[George]

I came home yesterday and sat with the heating pad on my back. I can walk for miles, but standing several hours seems to be harder.

I think standing is much harder than walking.

As an experienced usher, I can concur.

[George]

I've told this before, but DR JRand74 mentioned his, so...

The One That Got Away

I bought my 1st printing of Atlas Shrugged in great shape with a wholly intact dust jacket for $1 at a Goodwill while on a visit to Miami in 1980. I wasn't into collecting books at all then, but I knew even then that it was a prized volume. I also knew very little then about protecting valuable books, but I was a careful person and it was with me in good shape for a couple of years ... when one of my best friends at the time asked if he could borrow it. And then I moved east, a tumultuous time when we all literally lost track of each other and I had plenty of other things on my mind.

Folks, never loan a valuable book.   

Years later I found another copy of it, also in great shape, 9th or 11th printing, I forget (it's in a box where I can't get at it to check right now), and I keep it just as a reminder of that lesson and as an angry fist shaken in the general direction of the universe.

That was a hard lesson to learn.  At one point I stopped lending books as people didn't return them or lost them.  Later I began lending them again, if I didn't care if it was lost.

My dad loved reading and the books he bought.  I don't think he had anything truly valuable, but he bought what he wanted and was interested in.  He never loaned books outside the family.  I can only assume that it was because of a lesson learned years ago.

I learned never to loan CDs or DVDs the hard way.

[George]

I just received a pair of shoes from Amazon, except it wasn’t a pair. The box was open and one shoe was missing.

Oh, no!

[George]

Wordle:  No luck today!

Noooooooo!!!!!!

[George]

TOD:  Autographed and numbered "My Passion for Design" by Barbra S.  Suggested price, I think, was $500 but I got it from Barnes and Noble for something like $270.

Very nice!

[George]

Wordle 1,482 6/6

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Good for you, DR George!

Thanks, Kevin!

[George]

Most expensive books I ever got were college textbooks.

I think mine were, too.  I can't remember paying an extreme amount of money for a book...but you never know.  I could just be forgetting.  It's entirely possible.

[George]

Wordle 1,482 6/6

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Keith also got it in six.  His 3rd, 4th, & 5th lines were only missing the first letter.

Good for Keith!

[George]

Well, I must be off.  I'm working concessions again for a local production of Rent. 

[George]

I might stay to watch the whole show this time.  We'll see how I feel in the moment.  I am ushering a couple of time in the next couple of weeks, so this isn't my last chance to see it.

[George]

Until later!

[bk]

Jrand, I've written about Artur Rodzinski here many, many times - one of my favorites and who I named the Creature Wasn't Nice character after.

[bk]

Watching Shooter - season three is, thus far, better than the first two seasons. Same terrible direction - different directors all being told to ape the style that the producers love and I loathe. Actors are a bit better in this season, too, but I'm not sure how they're gonna stretch this out to thirteen episodes, although each episode is only forty minutes long.

[bk]

Hoping Claritin-D arrives soon before I have a full-blown allergy attack.

[Jane]

Good morning! Last night I finally got to see I Confess on the big screen as part of the Stanford Theatre's Hitchcock festival. That was way better than watching it on my iPad.

This was the last of the 3 Hitchcock movies that my 2nd cousin once removed was involved with. He started out as co-producer, as with Rope and Under Capricorn but left midway through and took his name off the credits.

Oh, my!

I second that

[Jane]

Hoping Claritin-D arrives soon before I have a full-blown allergy attack.

Vibes that once you have been on Flonase for awhile you won't have any more full-blown allergy attacks.

[Jrand74]

LOL MR BK I am sure you have - that's what I get for not pay8ing close attention.

[Jrand74]

Still 84 degrees.

[Jane]

I can't remember what we paid for our most expensive book.  It has been way too long since we purchased any books.

[singdaw]

Congratulations, DR John G., on making it through the latest hoop with your book.

[singdaw]

Loop-de-loop.

[singdaw]

Hula hoop.

[singdaw]

Betty Boop.

[singdaw]

Alley-oop.

[singdaw]

Enough of that.

[singdaw]

I mean, really.

[singdaw]

What could be more silly?

[bk]

Claritin-D has arrived and been taken.