So, here’s the highlight of my day in a nutshell.

An order of books from Amazon.com. Actually, that’s two orders, I just haven’t gotten them all logged into the official Debbie’s Library database yet, and they don’t get shelved in the “library” until they’re officially entered. Otherwise, you see, it would be chaos.

Then, the audio book for “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” which I just finished ripping so Mom and I can bring it on vacation. We’re bringing the actual book for our “trip book,” but there are times when we want to hear the story, but neither of us is in the mood to read outloud (mostly because we’re tired or are busy with our cross-stitch (Mom) or knitting (me), and Chappy’s not so good with the reading aloud thing. So . . . I’m bringing Jim Dale along as our backup–only on the MP3 player, rather than dragging all the cds along.

And, what’s that on top? A Creative Zen 8 MB Micro Photo in Titanium Grey? However did that get there?? I actually looked at the Sleek, which was basically the same price and had 20 MB of space, but it was heavy! At least twice as heavy as my camera. Just not reasonable, no matter how little I really think I’ll be carrying this, despite the vast amounts of storage space.

Meanwhile, my Celtic Dreams is coming along and starting to look like a real sweater. I wasted about five minutes of knitting time tonight, just sitting there with it spread out on my lap, admiring it. That’s not silly, is it?

Oh, and I got my Knitter’s Tea Swap pal today. Yay!

Hey, that lame form letter I got yesterday from UPN? It was more than made up for today, when I got this, the very best form-letter Order Confirmation I have ever seen. Ever. Even better than SitStay. See? From www.cdbaby.com.

Thanks for your order with CD Baby!

Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with
sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.

A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make
sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.

Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over
the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that
money can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party
marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of
Portland waved ‘Bon Voyage!’ to your package, on its way to you, in
our private CD Baby jet on this day, Thursday, May 4th.

I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your
picture is on our wall as “Customer of the Year”. We’re all
exhausted but can’t wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you once again,

Derek Sivers, president, CD Baby
the little CD store with the best new independent music

Tags: General, Reading // 11 Comments »