An Uneventful Week of Events

This past Saturday was International Tabletop Game Day, a celebration of traditional board and card games, those that you can't play on an electronic device.  The local game store was offering an event that afternoon that I was interested in attending.  However, things did not go as planned.  I was late with lunch and well as someone who came in my store, Booknotes.  That was going to make me late for the start time.  Furthermore, I wanted to wait until after the mail arrived before I left.  The store has been having problems with mail delivery lately, and I wanted to make sure nothing was amiss, especially since the mail can arrive almost any time on any given day.  I waited for over an hour, but I never saw it arrive.  By that time, I had to worry about taking out the trash, as the garbage pickup can be fairly random as well.  As it was, it was barely ten minutes after I put it out that they cam by to pick it up.  Most days, they arrive around five or so.  I finally checked on the mail as well, only to discover that it had been delivered without me noticing it.  It was closing time, and I needed to do some grocery shopping, making me even later to attend the event.  For the past few weeks, the weekend shopping had been taking me only about twenty minutes or so.  This weekend, it took almost forty-five.  I still had to take some things back to the store first, passing the game shop on the way.  There weren't really any good parking spaces at that time.  After I had finished up at the store, it was almost five, the time when the main event was scheduled to end.  With a heavy heart, I decided not to try and go back to see what was happening.  I regretted it almost instantly, but it was too late to make any more changes to my schedule.  To top it all off, I saw an item on the evening news that Saturday was also Independent Book Store Appreciation Day.  I had totally forgotten about it.  I didn't plan or even announce anything to do for the day.  In all honesty, we wouldn't have been able to get any of the special goodies that were to be offered to hand out, since Booknotes is not part of a retailer association.  I don't even know if there is a book store group for the area.  Even if there were one, we really don't have the funds to cover fees.  We might not  even be open by this time next year.  Anyway, this coming Saturday is Free Comic Book Day at the same store, and this time, I plan to attend.   The available titles have already been  announced, and none of them really excite me.  Normally, there would be a preview of a big event.  This year, that title is coming out Wednesday instead and cost twenty-five cents.  Sneaky move and not really fair.  Still, I will have something to look forward to, and there is another event coming this summer that I think I will like even more.