2013-03-01 Fri

SUFE

And it's HO! And off to the local YMCA, right behind my building, where I have negotiated to take off their hands all the books they don't sell by 7pm tonight.

And if you're wondering what I mean by "right behind my building", the two photos above are taken from the same spot; the first is aimed East, the red-brick building is the YMCA; the second is aimed South - my back-door is just beyond the bright light and yellow posts on the left. An easy stroll with 6 cartons of books on a trolley.

Here is my first trolley-load of the 26 cartons in the first batch; the top cartons contain 40, 21 and 42 books respectively.

We estimated 750 books out in the hall, and another 750 in the back-storage, which didn't get to see the light of day.

I'll skim all the books, grabbing those I should read, and keeping some of those, but the bulk of the books will be distributed to the various charity and volunteer organizations around the city.

Bonus: These are some of the CDs I get, but only some. Many are still shrink-wrapped.

A carton of books typically weighs twenty-five pounds, so we're looking at about 1,000 lbs of books, or half a ton.

That's heavy reading!