Adventures in Book Selling

Thrift stores are amazing places to find cheap books. In almost brand new condition sometimes. I had an idea, what I believed to a be brilliant idea, of buying these cheap books and selling them online. I sold two, and ended up paying to sell them. Why? Because I was unfamiliar with what was the cheapest way to ship the darn things. So I unlisted most of the books; the ones I could in no way make a profit from. And I finally made a profit from one. A measly eighty cents. Which was a little over a three hundred percent profit. But still....

I have finally found a job. After more than thirty applications and four interviews, a job has been obtained. Alright, so most of those applications were just submitting a resume, but I got two interviews out of it. The hilarious thing is that there was no interview involved. I was on a wait list for this job and got an e-mail. We need you to come in and fill out an application. Okay, not a problem. Thanks for stopping by, we would like you to join our team, there is a mandatory meeting next Wednesday. Granted, it's not really the most glamorous job in the world: I'll be working in a cafeteria, truth be told, but it's a job none the less. And hey, it isn't retail. The work is only supposed to last for five-ish weeks, but hopefully they will let me stay into the fall.

Remember that hysterical, comical history book I was quoting a while back? Apparently you really do have to have an appreciation for the actual historical events. I was reading it to a few of my friends a couple of days ago and they didn't understand the humor. One basically said he was waiting for the punchline. The other just thought the situation was funny: me trying to convince them that the book was laughable.

The sermon this morning was on Elijah and the prophets of Ba'al. The pastor said we are uncomfortable with the fact that God had all the prophets killed after they were proven wrong, that we don't understand it. I beg to differ. I am not uncomfortable with it. And  I think I sort of understand it. God is a jealous God, right? If the prophets were left alive, they would continue to be a distraction to the Israelite people. They would also be a temptation for them to turn from God again and worship Ba'al.