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Today after work, I ran errands. I usually wait until they pile up, because I generally hate the "running" part of errands. As it turns out, it was a great day to do just that. Here is my story.

I drove the 2 miles to downtown (imagine Ogden, only smaller and with more parking). I dashed across the street, walked passed the comics stores, the optician's, the florist, the bookstore and the bar, and disappeared around the corner in search of the cobbler. Finding Gepeto in his shop, I dropped off some shoes for repair and was told to "give me 15 minutes." So I headed back around the corner to the bookstore, which has an amazing selection of used books (and where, incidentally, you can get new ones for 20 to 50 percent off). After picking up "A Treasury of Kahlil Gibran: the Arabic Writings by the Author of 'The Prophet,'" I crossed the street to drop a commitment form for a local CSA farm into a post office box, and, since I was there, skipped up the steps into the library for a quick browse of the movie section. (I settled on a DVD of "The Office," a show I have never seen.) I checked my watch as I exited the library, and since it'd been 15 minutes, I headed back to Gepeto's. Paying him my "$100, minus your discount, so that's $7.45," I thanked him and headed back around the corner in the direction of the bookstore, which I passed this time before crossing the street and pulling the door to the tailor shop open. The seamstress there estimated that it will take $65 dollars and 3 yards of fabric to replace the lining of my winter coat. I will be revisiting her once I'm certain winter is over. I considered stopping by the coffee shop, but decided I'd save that for tonight, when I head back downtown for the Scrabble gathering.

NOTES:
1. Support your locally-owned businesses. The customer service is hard to beat.

2. "The Prophet" is the one record I miss from the record collection I sold a few years ago. It's a beautiful poem, which I recommend.

3. The CSA will be the culinary adventure for me this year. Stay tuned for how I turn it into something worth reading. For more information on community supported agriculture, visit localharvest.org