Ramblings on a Christmas Morning

    I'm pretty much finished with everything to do with Christmas already, so I don't have much of anything to talk about today.  No one is probably going to read this today anyway.  Well, maybe, so why be topical? I mean, no one offered suggestions for my next serial posts as of last week.  No one found the term "takeaway" instead of "take-out" in last week's post, or commented on the strikethrough 'victim' as part of a pun to the title either.  Anyhow.  Today is just another boring day, albeit a little behind schedule.  I don't get gifts any more, as it is only my mother, and she is not the best at getting me gifts.  She has been known to mess gifts up even after I tell her the exact things to get.  I've already finished going over hundreds of books coming out in February, a task I started yesterday but had to stop when my computer's battery started to run down and it was too close to closing time to start recharging it. (I found nine more books that I might get for the store, or myself.) There were only three customers at my store yesterday:  a woman who came in to pay for some chocolate-covered cherries she got but had problems getting her credit card transaction to work, a man who got a gift certificate for a neighbor, and a man who picked up almost $400 in cherries he ordered over a week previously.  We had to stay open a little later than planned for the that one.  The rest of my day will just be my usual random internet searching, a few games, a weightlifting session this afternoon, and maybe a nap.  I have to be ready tomorrow when I have to start the year-end inventory, as well as the trying to figure out the best order to take down the Christmas decorations so I can take home the more delicate things on days without a forecast for rain.  Some things won't matter if they get slightly wet, so I'll probably take them back first. My special technique for counting inventory is sort of tricky, but I realize I can't explain it in an easy fashion. It allows me to not just tabulate what the stock currently is, but also double-check on what had been sold over the past year.  (I do weekly checks on those books, but I have been known to haphazardly miss one or two.) Quite frankly, I am starting to get bored writing this morning.  I always planned on having a brief post today that kind of just plods along, so I feel I have achieved that goal. See you next week.  Year.  Whatever.  Merry Christmas!