Double Check

March 25, 2025

I had the day off yesterday, so I took a little afternoon trip. I had heard about a bookstore in my area dedicated to just poetry. Well, I’ve been on a poetry kick for a while now so I thought I’d go check it out.

Well, my friends, I didn’t read the hours on their website carefully enough: they are closed on Mondays. I suppose I’ll just have to try again another day (and double check that I can do so).

I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing to go around with an assumption that something is always going to go wrong. It’s easy to take this too far and fall into anxiety and doom and gloom (I know this well). But the world of your plans is always simpler than the real thing, and you have to expect friction and maybe some sparks when they meet.

So it wasn’t a disaster when I saw the closed sign on the door. My city’s library had a branch a few blocks away that I had been planning to check out anyway, so it wasn’t a wasted trip. I still came home with some new books, just not as many as I was expecting. I got a CD or two as well. Lately I’ve taken to ripping CDs from the library as a source of music in addition to the usual channels for buying it. You won’t get the latest hits that way, but oh well. Were you really expecting everything to be so easy?

In conclusion, remember that Murphy’s law is a thing and support public libraries. That’s honestly more of a point than I thought I’d have when I started writing this.