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It arrived. Twice.

Dave — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:00:00 +0000

I now have TWO softcover, ruled, pocket-sized Moleskine notebooks! My friend Erin delivered one she brought up from the BYU Bookstore in Provo on Sunday (thanks again!), and the one I ordered of Amazon finally showed up at work.

Lesson learned: if I’m going to order a notebook online, make sure I have plenty of space left in my previous notebook and order it early.

The horribly ironic thing is that I haven’t even done so much as an inaugural scribble yet. It’s weird. Getting a new Molie is a little intimidating. I’m not sure why, but I feel like I need to be very careful not to screw it up. So I’m excited to get them (0bviously), but once I do I feel like I have to have something worthy to write in them before I can do so.

I’m pretty sure none of this is healthy.

I once heard of a farmer who bought a brand new, beautiful truck. The first thing he did after he signed the papers was walk out and key the side of it. The salesman was obviously shocked and then the farmer explained how now he wouldn’t worry about it getting dinged up while working on the farm. He could go out and use it for what it was intended and wouldn’t think twice about it getting bumped, scratched, dented or dinged.

I need to key my Molie.

Maybe I furiously scribble on the first page until the pen starts leaking. Maybe I write some profound quote. Maybe I tear the first page out all together, sort of an overly dramatic Dead Poets Society gesture.

What do you think? Let me know in the comments.

The Notebook (not the movie)

Dave — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000

Here’s a history of the ordering process for the notebook I ordered a week ago:

I’m in Utah and ordered the notebook from some podunk bookstore in South Carolina via Amazon.

It shipped from Oregon.

It sat in Union City, California for four days.

It then flew from California (over Utah) to Denver, Colorado where it has been “processed”.

I charted the information/physical trail and it looks something like this:

It appears to me that they’re trying to avoid directly sending me the product I ordered.

Does ANYONE in Utah have this Moleskine?? – UPDATED X3

Dave — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:23:00 +0000

It’s driving me nuts! I’ve called every bookstore I can think of and NOBODY has these notebooks in. I ordered one from an Amazon retailer on Sunday and, from what I can tell from the tracking info, it’s been sitting in California since Tuesday.

I’m looking for the pocket sized, ruled, soft cover Moleskine notebook.

Do you have one? Do you know where I can get my hands on one ASAP? Drop me a line and if I can in fact get one, I’ll buy you a snow cone.

UPDATE: Barnes & Noble said they had one at their Gateway location:

Except when I called, they don’t really have it in stock. *sigh* And I went and got my hopes up.

UPDATE 2: BYU Bookstore has copies in. My good friend Laura is going to mail me one on Monday…unless someone else is going down sooner.

UPDATE 3: My good friend, faithful reader and distant relative, Erin, is coming to Salt Lake tonight from Provo and will be bringing me the long awaited notebook.
Photo courtesy of here.

Punctuation DOES make a difference

Dave — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:00:00 +0000

Courtesy of Duchess.

Writer's strike may be over

Dave — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:56:00 +0000

According to this article on USA Today as well as some other rumblings around the Internet, it looks like the writer’s strike could be over as soon as Monday. Unfortunately, many shows won’t be on for another four to six weeks. Lame. I’m having Chuck and 30 Rock withdrawals. Not so much The Office for some reason.

Oh yeah. And that could mean we see an Arrested Development movie coming out within the next year or two. NICE.