This is it. We’re liquidating. We were to have an auction on Tuesday, but no one other than the liquidators submitted bids. So we’re skipping the auction and submitting the fait accompli to the judge on Thursday.
Liquidation sales will start at some stores as soon as this Friday. We don’t yet know for sure when ours will. The stores will all be closed by the end of September. Again, I don’t know when ours will.
I’m blogging this from the elite WiFi lounge in the US Airways terminal at Newark’s Liberty International Airport — by which I mean that I’m one of a half-dozen or so people sitting on the floor. The wireless signal reaches one wall of the long corridor from the Sentinels of Indignity to the gates. This short stretch also has power outlets — though I had to keep an eye on one and dive for it the moment that the person next to me unplugged.
As usual, work on creative stuff has gotten stuck in a sargasso of technical crud, but I’ve dug my way out, and the accelerated composing of “Moses” continues.
Thanks to all who responded about my Bluetooth problem and keypad confusion. John’s comment, erudite as always, explained the odd history of keypads in a way that made sense of things (though my hands will remain confused until my brain convinces them of how things are).
Ron’s comment explained what I needed to do to get [...]
Here I am again, trying not to go to bed angry after having spent several hours battling to get my technology to do something that should be dead-simple.
I just got a Bluetooth USB dongle for my laptop, so I can send photos to it from my phone more easily. Setting up Bluetooth on both the [...]
I’ve always been told that it’s not good to go to bed angry. But waiting to calm down, after using my computers, means that I get very little sleep.
One thing that drive me utterly nuts is when software does something on its own, ignoring my directions, just because it wants to do it.
I’ve been getting messages for the past few days about the new format of this blog. Since I hadn’t looked at the blog in several days, I wasn’t sure what people [...]
I’m working on a small quick book, a subset of the infamous Book of the Blog, focusing on my secondary job at a nearby church and the neighborhood around it.
I’m putting it together using the LaTeX document preparation system, which is wonderful in almost all ways, especially for a command line and markup language geek [...]
I’m pleased, proud, and relieved to announce that my father’s novel, Troika, is now in print.
It’s been a process that’s taken over twenty years, counting from the conversation that I had with him that sparked the book, as we sat in a plaza in Tel Aviv in the summer of 1986. While the first draft [...]
Apparently the problem with posting to a mailing list was part of a bigger problem. According to this post to Slashdot, there was major cloggage somewhere that backed up messages from gmail addresses to mailing lists hosted at SourceForge.
My mailing list posts haven’t shown up yet, but there’s probably quite a backlog.
By the way, I [...]
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From the author of 19th Nervous Breakdown: Making Human Connections in the Landscape of Commerce
"Customers have told me that I approach bookselling like a ministry. Sometimes I find people exactly what they want; I hope that sometimes I find what they need. And helping the store make a profit is probably a good thing, too. But what I look for is the human contact, the communication, the chance to help people leave the store happier than they came in."