Goodbye Borders

I stayed in the habitrails today; the interconnected covered walkway system that connects many of the downtown buildings. The weather was just too miserable to venture outside. Visited the local Borders book store which is unfortunately on the nationwide list of stores that will be closing due to bankruptcy. The discounts drew a surprising number of shoppers, all of us happy to dance on the corpse of yet another cherished institution that may soon disappear: the bookstore. If we had all been a little more supportive in the past, maybe these people would not now be losing their jobs. Of course, I'm as guilty as any of them, and certainly Michelle uses Amazon to excess for her research needs (having just finished our taxes I can speak with authority about how much she spends on books each year). I was impressed with the general cheerfulness of the staff given the trying circumstances. I'm not sure I could have been so professional as I watched my job dwindle away. I saw the same thing happen in Mississippi last summer as the local video store went under, but the employees there did not handle it so well...