Chapter 110 February 2008 Business Priorities

Back in January, I wrote a list of goals I wanted to accomplish. I accomplished most, but not all of them. I’m sure you can guess that I did not switch my accounting “system” (if I can use so lofty a word for such a mess) from ledger book and pencil to computer. You can probably also guess that I did not list one book on my website every day. I did, however, catalogue one or more books per day, but these were mostly to take to the book fair — five days away and counting — so I am satisfied with that. I spent so much time preparing new stock for the fair that I did no work on my Dante catalogue, and that’s a disappointment, but I want to sell books at the fair, so the fair became a higher priority.

Without further ado, then, here are my goals for February, 2008:

+ Finish preparing for the San Francisco Book and Paper Fair.
+ Exhibit at the San Francisco Book and Paper Fair.
+ Return all books to their rightful shelves after the fair. (Since my books are spread out all over the house, this usually takes some time. I always want to put them back so I can find one I’m looking for later.)
+ Switch accounting from ledger book to computer.
+ After the book fair and the accounting, work on the Dante catalogue until it is finished!!!! Specifically, I want to finish writing descriptions for the remainder of the books in the catalogue this month — about 25 books to go.
+ Catalogue/list one book per day (except for the days of the book fair).
+ Learn more about the Rare Book School courses at UCLA.
+ Contribute an article to BookThink.
+ Contribute an article to Bookshop Blog.
+ Keep blogging here.

That’s a lot of goals for a short month. We’ll see what I can actually get done, and, I will report on it here, including any items not completed.

Below are the binders I use to keep paper receipts for books purchased and books sold. I file them in here in date order. I know I didn’t need to decorate them with scrapbook paper, but — it’s the housewife in me — if I can make the binders look nice, it makes me feel better about dealing with the boring paperwork, lol. Creating these binders was one of my January goals.