A Thousand Books

I just made a 300 mile trip to Chicago to send about 700 pounds of books to several Peace Corps volunteers in Romania. That brings the total to 8000± pounds in the past 3 years.

I found Bucovina Restaurant and had a great plate of sarmalute.

I stayed for the Christmas party given by The Round Table Society, a non-profit group of (mostly) Romanian-born people, trying to make a difference.They generously presented me with the 'Round Table Society Bridging Communities Partnership Award' for my book project.

This actually adds to the 800 pounds I sent at the end of October.

So I have established yet another blog, but my creative spirit isn't up to making it as great as many others I have seen so I leave this one blank, too.

Sad, isn't it?

Should I just jot down cryptic notes so interested parties know I am alive and well or wait for true literary inspiration?

I'll jot.

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Today I had a list of 5 rummage sales to check out. Bookwise, all of them fizzled. I only picked up about 10 books. One church that had some good ones they would save for the next sale, whenever that would be. A non-profit will repeat their sale next week before releasing the books. Another sale was apparently a big one, but was only a house sale with a big ad. The ten books were generated at one church where I was assured the new pastor would love to hear about the big project on the horizon. On the way to the last one I hit a curb pulling a u-turn and ruined a tire which cost $70 to replace.

A little PR, a few books... eh...