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Made pancakes for Eor and sorta-crepes for me. Being gluten free they weren't large, but I went to town with different toppings - lemon ginger marmalade, thimbleberry jelly, spirited blueberries. But I think my favorite was cashew butter with Nutella. Enough chew, not too sticky, and felt like food.
We skipped lunch in favor of tea and a little shopping at Bullmoose Music in Brunswick with Eor's friend, Doc. Bullmoose is a local chain CD store, and they sell both new and used and generally have good prices. In recent years they've started expanding their floor space in all the stores and adding movies and now books, and I found a hardcover of "Raising Steam" for almost $10 off the cover price. Looks new, though I don't know for sure. The drawback - it is, of course, the U.S. version. I'm not sure what the differences will be aside from the cover (which is, per usual for U.S. versions, much less exciting than the U.K. cover). We'd looked for it at Barnes and Noble the other day but they only had the trade paperback, so they lost a sale right there.
Barnes and Noble are being kind of stupid about their business model because they could have had a $70 sale of us the other day and what they got was $12 because they had almost nothing we were looking for. We had been planning to buy "Serpent of Venice" and "Raising Steam" in hardcover and two copies of "Wintersmith" by Gary Paulson in paperback - to replace a copy we gave away and have another to give away. They have acres of poorly-used floorspace in that store and very little inventory. Eor says it's considered expensive to have inventory, but I think it's a lot more expensive to not have what people want to spend money on.
Bullmoose always gets a fair chunk of money out of us, but you can get a lot of variety for that money. Besides the book we bought 23 CDs and DVDs and that ended up costing us $89. Only one new CD, the rest probably second hand, and a lot of them out of the dollar bin. They tend to have what we want because they have a lot of inventory densely packed in their floor space.
We skipped lunch in favor of tea and a little shopping at Bullmoose Music in Brunswick with Eor's friend, Doc. Bullmoose is a local chain CD store, and they sell both new and used and generally have good prices. In recent years they've started expanding their floor space in all the stores and adding movies and now books, and I found a hardcover of "Raising Steam" for almost $10 off the cover price. Looks new, though I don't know for sure. The drawback - it is, of course, the U.S. version. I'm not sure what the differences will be aside from the cover (which is, per usual for U.S. versions, much less exciting than the U.K. cover). We'd looked for it at Barnes and Noble the other day but they only had the trade paperback, so they lost a sale right there.
Barnes and Noble are being kind of stupid about their business model because they could have had a $70 sale of us the other day and what they got was $12 because they had almost nothing we were looking for. We had been planning to buy "Serpent of Venice" and "Raising Steam" in hardcover and two copies of "Wintersmith" by Gary Paulson in paperback - to replace a copy we gave away and have another to give away. They have acres of poorly-used floorspace in that store and very little inventory. Eor says it's considered expensive to have inventory, but I think it's a lot more expensive to not have what people want to spend money on.
Bullmoose always gets a fair chunk of money out of us, but you can get a lot of variety for that money. Besides the book we bought 23 CDs and DVDs and that ended up costing us $89. Only one new CD, the rest probably second hand, and a lot of them out of the dollar bin. They tend to have what we want because they have a lot of inventory densely packed in their floor space.