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Three, count them, three shipments of books sitting on my desk to be processed. Not a few of them had release dates for tomorrow. A couple of years ago, the distributors were sending us best sellers well in advance of the release dates so we could have them ready for people to check out on the same day that the bookstores release them. In the last year, though, they've been arriving just a day or two before release and sometimes actually after it.

We got the fifth Harry Potter book two weeks ahead of the release date, for instance. I cataloged our copies and locked them in a file cabinet to keep anyone from cheating. Seriously.

I suppose they decided that too many libraries were letting the books out into the wild ahead of time, but we never did that as long as we were advised up front of the official release date.

Anyway, car is scheduled for maintenance tomorrow, and I'm just as tired as I was last night. We seem to have some sort of low grade virus here. No heavy symptoms, but sniffles and congestion, occasional cramps, and tired feelings. Wish it would run its course and go away.