trystinn | Mondays at the Bookstore

After I get the store opened up, I sit down with the voicemail machine and write down all the messages. Quite a few are telemarketers (an important business matter to discuss with you) kind of crap, others are the bizarre half-mumbled orders left by customers.

This morning's mystery was a woman who wanted to order the children's nature book discussed on NPR this morning. *headdesk*

So I checked the websites for NPR, KUOW and KPLU. There was nothing listed about childrens books on the front pages or in the current line up, so I ran searches on the site (boy, does their search engine suck - absolutely nothing popped up for today's date and children, book & variants there of). So I called her and found out which station she was listening to (KUOW) and which show she was listening to (10am Weekday with Steve Scher). From there it took seconds to find the book - Scat by Carl Hiaasen.

Such is the life. Life is also, apparently, a very small bat that flew in this morning and is napping peacefully in the fake fig tree in the back. I'm somewhat fond of bats, so we'll let it stay awhile before I rescue him. Out back in employee parking there's a sidewalk to the basement, which is protected from the sun. There's plenty of bugs and plenty of nighttime security lights to draw the bugs. Should be a great spot. Might even give him a name!