My Paperbacks

I like all kinds of books, from a beat-up, small and faded paperback, to high-end leather-bound volumes. The best are the books that use premium materials, and paperbacks are the other side of that. About half of these, I rescued from a thrift store as they’d been sitting there for weeks. The busy chain-thrifts, I suspect they’ll toss what doesn’t sell. I do know they treat donated books really, really badly, so I never donate to the ARC.

Anyway. I just had these stacked up while I was moving some other books around and took a quick photo. I do have more small paperbacks, but this is the majority of them. Larger paperbacks are spread throughout my library and I replace them with hardbacks when the opportunity arises.

I haven’t done his to all of these books, but any one that I read, I have to give it that smooth, contact-paper feel. I learned how to do this from the librarians at Drake Junior High when I was in the seventh grade.

Before contact paper…
I read this book, it was really good.

052926 • Bike Ride

A pre-hockey bike ride, also the first ride of the season, so not that intensive.

It is always interesting to see what new construction has occurred since the fall, and there is a lot of neat construction in Arvada by the Walmart, including a scenic rest stop that is just east of the Walmart when going up the hill on the new trail by the gardens. I had no idea this existed! Then there were the usual soccer fields and parks on the way home, a nice way to wind up the ride.

Let’s Go Again!

We get back from a walk. It was warm out, she was hot and thirsty. I settle in, and of course, she wants back out for another walk. The photos here show you what I have to deal with in this situation.

Staring out the window, then getting in my face, making her case…

Nowhere Man: Finally

I have an extensive DVD/Blu-ray library, (I have no cable or streaming services, which is great… no commercials!) but one of the missing gems that was too expensive to buy, was the 1995 UPN Network series “Nowhere Man”. I’ve kept an eye out for this at used and thrift stores for years, and today, I actually found it, for eighty dollars less than it would have been to get it off of eBay or Amazon. They only made the dvd set in 2005, and not that many so it is quite a find. I got it for $6, and online the cheapest one I can find is $89!

So, I’m watching the first episode for the first time in what, thirty years, and I notice the main character and his hostage getting into… a Thunderbird! Cool!

But not long afterward, that Thunderbird gets blown up. Now, I’m not so glad I saw a Thunderbird in this series. And they blew it up REAL good. No salvaging parts off of this one.

Makes me wonder; they were actually driving this car earlier, so was the one they blew up a different Thunderbird, but same year, same color, but maybe procured from a junkyard or something? This show didn’t exactly have a big budget, but then again what do I know about television series production.

Also: The people who created this show also did the original “La Femme Nikita” on the USA channel, and “24” with Kiefer Sutherland. These were all great shows.



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