BOOKCELLAR NOTES (2/27/03 Thurs):

CDs played today (background, mostly):
- Judy Collins vinyl LP side (I try to start out the day with a side of vinyl from my sixties and seventies accretion--a lot of bargain-bin misses and dud albums built around one or two decent radio cuts, but a few that are still fun to hear)--this side four of So Early In the Spring: The First Fifteen Years. Xgau might only rate it a C+, but it doesn’t kill me to listen to it anyway.
- David Shea CLASSICAL WORKS II (Tzadik)
- Morton Feldman VOICES & INSTRUMENTS (1949-1971), (Mode)

---Got a better start today (9AM), having done a bunch of book packaging. I still need to print out the mailing labels. I check my email first in case any of the recipients, who I apprised yesterday of the imminence of their shipments, might have some feedback on the invoice-copies I pasted to them. Not much reply today, but lots of spam. So far the spam in my in-box only fills up two windows full every day, so it is not much trouble deleting. It takes less than a minute, but I am fearful of a geometrical increase that might come from an ill-considered stop at some website. Like when I was searching for a Philip K. Dick visage to imprint on a t-shirt (for fun) with an inkjet transfer I have had lying around here a long time but never got around to using. Googling PKD, one of the sites that came up apparently had been co-opted by a site that was a virtual encyclopedia of spam scams. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough--no doubt about that.

---I did get one email from Bill Schaffer at Subterranean responding to my Feb 21 inquiry about my Jan 16 inquiry/order. He said it was never received, so I re-sent it. It was in my emails-sent file with the correct address, but I guess something went awry. Maybe this time...

---Only had a banana to eat so far today, along with my mega-cup of coffee and quart travel-tumbler of watered down orange juice.

---After going to the post office, I went for another five-mile run--with still only a banana for fuel. The temperature rose 6 degrees in an hour this morning, so what was another frigid start to the day became almost balmy by comparison. It might have been all of 20 degrees (Fahrenheit) when I was running. The bike path was still icy and snowy in spots, but there were also some clear stretches. I need to put together a few more days in a row running, but I also need to do a better job of getting back to work afterwards. Today I got sidetracked on the upstairs computer (with the relatively faster, but still dial-up, modem).