hellbilly

So tomorrow is one of the greatest literary windfall days of the year. That's right library book sale. It only comes twice a year, and luckily I just happen to be in town when it happens this year.
See the library book sale is where you can buy a shopping bag of books for $5. Any books as well. Hardcovers paper backs, as long as you can fit it into a shopping bag it's yours. Now myself I love the library booksale for a number of reasons. First off it's it's a great way to stock up on reading material for months. Second it removes the monetary restraints I place on learning. For example, I'm not going out and paying $15 for a book on Dwight D. Eisenhower, or a book on cooking with a wok. For $5 a shopping bag though...And the bonus is because I paid money for them, even a few cents, I'm still going to read them. Why? Because they're there. The final reason is because you can actually find great books there, and some that are actually valuble. Last year I picked up a first edition copy of Deliverance, A collection of Mark Twain stories from 1903, and a first edition of True Grit. Plus I lucked out and was able to find a lot of hardcover editions of books I have in paperbacks.
Last year I went with the girl I was dating at the time (Sorry Catiedid this is not the bizarre tale of love gone wrong). Well actually I made her go. I was kind of surprised she hesitated. After all besides being Scotish, she's the most thrifty person I know. She doesn't buy trash bags, because as she said, " I don't buy things I'm only gonna throw out." And she she doesn't. She uses leftover plastic shopping bags. She also washes out the plastic tupperware trays chinese food comes in around here and reuses those. I asked her about other things that you buy only to throw out, like toilet paper, napkins, and well, condoms. She choose not to answer my inquires. Also I was pretty sure I didn't want to know the answers to those questions. She was however impressed with the book sale. Though she didn't believe in reading fiction, because according to her it's all made up shit that isn't true, she does now have an adequate home repair library and an extensive collection of cook books. All for $5. At first I though she'd compliment me for my frugality, since all she usually said about me was that I was a no good drunken Irish spendthrift with no direction in my life, but all I got was some good natured griping about how she was gonna have to pack all this stuff up when she moved to Colorado. I should have seen that coming.
That was then though, and this is now. And tomorrow is another library book sale. Where, if fortune favors me again I can stack up on enough reading material to get me through the next month or two. And while the scottish girl is gone, I got me a $5 dollar shopping bag full of stuff to read.

Well you all wanted a story and you got the library book sale. That's just how my mind works. That doesn't mean I won't honor requests. So figure sometime this weekend I'll dredge up a bizarre story of love gone wrong. Or maybe just about the the best Valentine's Day I ever had which involved Karoke and a bar fight.

And sweet merciful crap I almost forget. Hillbilly motorcross photos could be posted as soon as tomorrow. You unlucky bastards you'll actually get to see what I really look like.