Bookstore #1: with a check for $3,500 in my pocket, I find myself looking at the same Lady Bird Johnson book I didn't buy before, and buy it. $20.
Bookstore #2: Clerk is like, don't I know you? Me: Couldn't possibly, never been to madison before. Us, a bit later: That riot twixt the anarchists and the labor history league at haymarket 1986. $15
Chicago, Clark and Halstead
You have to turn off your cellphone.
Three days later I realize my cell phone is still off. money spent: $0, even tho they had kurtzweil 'the singularity is near' at a good discount.
Evansville IN, suburbia. (book reviewed at vark.blogspot.com)
I'll have a double americano and a copy of vernor vinge's rainbows end.