BOOKCELLAR NOTES (3/3/03 Mon):

CDs played today:
- David S. Ware GO SEE THE WORLD (Columbia, 1997)
- Massacre MELTDOWN (Tzadik)

---Yesterday was another Sunday washout. It is a wonder that Sundays have been my day for catalog preparation. By my latest quarterly catalog schedule next week is when I will come out with #145, or at least ready it for the printer. With my vehicle incapacitated I had been thinking maybe to take the layouts in on Saturday (using my wife’s car) and picking up the finished product a week later. But I hitched a ride with my mother-in-law to Des Moines where Neil’s car was being stored in her garage. Now I have another vehicle on its last legs to try to tool around in. I won’t have an excuse to miss my dentist appointment on Thursday. Or the paperback book sale at the Botanical Center on Friday. Nor the jury duty I have been assigned to starting Mar 17--the day I figured to be mailing the catalog. And I should be able to make it to the printer on schedule--finally. Thirteen weeks between catalogs--I don’t know about that. I had hoped to be catching up on more things by having the extra time. Well, I could still start bearing down now.

---Once again I did not get much done today. I should have erected the new shelves I picked up yesterday, but instead I did it this morning. I thought it would be something I could do quickly, but it turned out to be quite a chore. Now that it is done there are only a few million other things standing between me and a perfectly well organized workspace down here. But right now I have some books to catalog, some orders to process, etc., etc.

---A batch of books from Prime Books arrived today. Now I should have all their in-print titles. More later.