Wednesday 01/14/2026
First thing today was a hike with Joanne and Martha. The plan was to walk the Dish, but our 9am departure was too late. There were no parking spaces within a mile of the trailhead. So we diverted to the Arastradero Preserve. My gout attack has faded out, and my feet felt fine. (3.5 miles for the day)
Lying in bed at 5am I realized a better way to work at FOPAL. The boxes of donated books are stacked in front of my section (see picture, 2 days back; there were 8 more boxes today). As taught me by the guy who had the section before me, I would go through them, pick out the books that looked saleable, put them on a cart, and trundle them to the opposite end of the building where I could sit at a computer and use a barcode scanner to quickly enter the ISBNs into bookfinder.com to get prices. Then I would bring them back to shelve them.
Well it dawned on me (5am, “dawned” heh heh) that I have a laptop and the scanners in the computer room have USB plugs. So I could steal a scanner, and do the pricing right there at my section. Check the value, mark a price on the flyleaf, and shelve the book all in one pass.
So I grabbed my laptop and went down there and tried this out and it did work. I don’t know how much time it actually saves, but it feels more efficient. I need to go back tomorrow and maybe Friday and Sunday to begin to catch up.
Sixth floor meeting at 4:30, fun, welcomed two new residents, Bob and Nancy, to our floor.
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