bunrab | we need more books

Well, we need an excuse to go out riding. I mean, with the price of gas what it is, and

squirrel_magnet's ancient bike getting less than 30 mpg, we can't just ride around burning up gas for the fun of it, right? So, we have flipped open the phone book, and we tracked down one of the used book stores listed. Perhaps tomorrow, we will try for another one, in a different direction.

The Book Rack, in Timonium, is well-lit, clean, cheerful, but about half the store is devoted to children, and while the mystery section is adequate, the SF section is small and the non-fiction nearly non-existent. To compare, Second Hand Books in Columbia is small, dark, extremely cramped, in terrible order - but has an enormous inventory of all sorts of non-fiction, as well as (cramped, poorly-lit) tall stacks of science fiction.

Timonium is definitely the suburbs. While Catonsville isn't inside the Baltimore City limits, and many people would call our neighborhood suburban simply because it's mostly garden apartments and single-family houses, it is very definitely urban compared to suburbs such as Timonium.

Still getting used to the concept of August weather not inducing heat stroke when one wears proper bike gear. Although I admit my gloves felt a bit warm. I know I have mesh summer gloves somewhere, but where is another matter. I suppose I'll just have to buy another pair, in order to make the existing pair show its hand, if you'll pardon the pun.