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I now have about twice as many books for Books By Chance as will fit in the box I’ve got. I could still pull more, and Scott could likely get rid of a fair number of books, too. I looked in two of the bins of books in the basement, but I didn’t feel up to digging very far there because it would involve actually moving full or mostly full tubs of stuff. That might be better undertaken with Scott’s help, but I think he won’t be willing.

I need to see how many grocery bags we’ve got that are durable enough to hold books. I want to get at least some of the books bound for the library out of the house today. Getting all of them out would be really nice, but I’m not holding my breath that we have enough bags for that.

Yesterday, I got about a third of the way through a DVD that must be returned to the library today. It’s not in English, so it takes more focus to watch it than I had for most of the day. I think I’ll be able to finish it before we go to the library. I hope so, anyway. I don’t want to have to wait for my name to come up on the waitlist again.

I checked out the Kitchen Made website to look at replacements for the paddle that’s been giving us trouble, but, apparently, the only replacements available are identical to what we have and will have the same problems. The page for the part is full of one and two star reviews, all complaining about the coating flaking off. I don’t know if there’s something we can buy that will work that isn’t from Kitchen Made. Scott tried that route with the one he bought that turned out to be too tall, but I’m pretty sure he didn’t bother getting the model number for the mixer (I haven’t done that because it requires turning over the mixer which is too heavy for me to lift unaided) and just bought something that looked right. It’s a pity that one won’t work. I really like the design of it.

Cordelia will be gone most of the day today. It’s her friend’s brother’s birthday, and their family invited her to spend the day. (The actual party is from 5 to 7.) They’ll pick her up around 10, and we’ll retrieve her around 7. Finding a present for the birthday boy was challenging because he doesn’t read and isn’t interested in much but TV and games on his mother’s iPad. I think Cordelia ended up buying him a copy of Timeline because he’s enjoyed that while visiting us, even when the girls weren’t interested in playing it with him.

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I got most of the books for the library into four bags. There are five books up here that didn’t fit, and I have a stack of another ten to twelve books in the basement that also need to go.

It turns out that there is a very new Goodwill store in Ypsilanti that will take stuffed animals. They also take VHS tapes and recycle used computer equipment, working or not. They’re even open for donations today. They didn’t come up in my initial searches because they only started taking donations in December and opened their doors to sell some time after that. I’m a little boggled at the idea of an 'upscale' Goodwill store, but I suppose I don’t have to shop there.

We got a phone call from Kroger half an hour ago telling us that the packaged salad Scott bought yesterday and which we ate last night might have been listeria contaminated. I had to listen to the message twice because I couldn’t actually make out the product name, and I still wasn’t entirely sure until I turned to Google. Fortunately, the contaminated salad has manufacturing codes starting with A, and this package’s code started with N, but… I find it disturbing that Kroger would still have stuff on the shelves that was recalled January 27. I can’t believe that they only just got word, so I have to put it down to gross incompetence.