Travels to the Library

The day did not begin well. I thought that interview with Healthy Kids was tomorrow. Turns out it was today. I had barely enough time to change and eat breakfast before they told me I didn't have everything I needed. Oh, I have the job. They just need more paperwork, including my college transcript and two letters of recommendation. I rescheduled the interview for Monday.

After that, I did the paperwork I could finish now, then called Uber. I have no idea why the Mt. Laurel Library's book sale was so late - it's usually in April - but it is today through Saturday. Fortunately, I had no trouble getting there. The driver going to Mt. Laurel arrived in 7 minutes. The one going home got there in 3. No traffic either way, not even in Cherry Hill.

The Mt. Laurel Library Book Sale was in a slightly bigger room this year, but that still didn't make it more organized or easier to get around all the people looking for bargains. Even when it started to clear out a bit around 1:30, I still had a hard time finding things. I eventually came up with four records, four CDs (two are part of a double set), three books, and a DVD of the 1975 historical action film The Man Who Would Be King. The records are:

Gold - The Best of Sesame Street (2-Disc set)

The Brubeck Laverne Trio - See How It Feels

Remember the Golden Days of Radio Volume 1 and 2

The CDs are: 

The Glenn Miller Orchestra - In the Christmas Mood II (I've had this on cassette for years and have been looking for the CD version.)

The Beatles - Live at the BBC (2-Disc set) 

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - The Dave Brubeck Quartet at Carnegie Hall

 The books are: 

The Tempest by William Shakespeare (My favorite of his plays.)

Six Stunning Sirens by Lynn Cahoon

Murder In an Irish Churchyard by Carlene O'Connor

The driver passed Stacks on 38 in Moorestown on the way to Mt. Laurel. I originally thought of them for lunch, but I got out at almost 2, and they close then. After I got in, I brought everything upstairs, changed into sneakers, and ate at the Legacy Diner in Audubon instead. Had a short stack of "Chunky Monkey" pancakes, which turned out to be pancakes with chocolate chips and huge slices of banana. Very tasty and big as the plate. Good thing I only ordered the short stack. Tried a tasty linzer cookie that was almost as big.

I was really in Audubon to stop at the Acme and ask the head manager to write me a letter of recommendation. Thank goodness he was still in, and he's a nice guy who had no trouble doing so. I told him I'd pick it up when I came on Saturday. Grabbed a Lemon Perfect drink on sale after that and dodged evening rush hour traffic going home.

At least the weather was gorgeous for all the running around. It was perfectly sunny and dry today, in the upper 70's without a cloud in the sky. Dry and breezy, too. You'd never know it's supposed to rain all weekend.

When I got in, I ordered a copy of my college transcript and had dinner while watching Riding High. I go further into this year's Kentucky Derby horse racing musical featuring Bing Crosby and directed by Frank Capra at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.

Riding High (1950)

Had dinner while watching Press Your Luck, then Match Game '76. Finished the night listening to two of my recent CD finds while working on the Riding High review. Until I saw The Buddy Holly Story, I hadn't realized just how familiar I was with Buddy Holly and his work. I didn't know he originally wrote and sang "Everyday" and "Rave On." Other songs of his I was more familiar with include "That'll Be the Day," "Oh Boy!" and "Peggy Sue."

Dave Brubeck and his jazz combo took their sound out of the colleges and into Carnegie Hall in February 1963 in The Dave Brubeck Quartet at Carnegie Hall. They kick off with an epic "St. Louis Blues" and finish with Brubeck's famous "Take Five," but there's some nice stuff in between as well. I especially enjoyed "For All We Know," "Three to Get Ready," and "It's a Raggy Waltz."