Today I went to the case lot sale at a local grocery store. This is a sale where you get low prices for buying in large quantities. It happens twice per year and I use the opportunity to stock up on non-perishables. So I filled my cart with several hundred pounds of canned goods and steered it into a check out line. The cashier was an older gentleman who kept trying to make conversation with me as I hoisted cases of cans from my cart onto the conveyer belt. Once I got everything unloaded from the cart. I went down to the other end and began loading things back in. I was about half done when I noticed a sign posted that instructed baggers not to require people to unload cases from their carts. Instead the little tags were to be removed from cases and scanned. That would have been nice to know much earlier. It also would have been nice to have a bagger at all. But at least the cashier was impressed. He kept saying “good job, young lady!” in a way that was highly annoying. But then I suspect that he wouldn’t much like being called an “older gentleman” on the internet, so I guess we’re even.
In other news, we’ve sold enough books to pay for the print run. Now we just need to sell enough to provide living expenses for six months.
Look, I can only force so many people at gunpoint, ok? I’m working as fast as I can…
Seriously, I’m surrounded by people who don’t appriciate quality humor. They don’t “get” Schlock…
Guess we’re just cooler than they are. 🙂
You’ve definitely done your part. Orders are continuing to come in at a steady rate, so things look promising.
I have about 35 billion nerd friends, so I’ve spread the word. I hope it helps.
Yay!
I do hope you break the sketch record from the last book. If this happened in two weeks I’d get a couple more sketches, but I’ll just have to content myself with a few non-defaced copies…
And I’m still working to make sure I’m at the shipping party.
I have to glare at Chalain… 🙂
Thank you very much!
Email me via the “leave us feedback” link on the store when you want to place more orders. We’ll see if we can arrange for them to have sketches.