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September 24, 2006

update 3 months after the flood

Small update on how things are going with the clean-up/rebuild. As you know from reading the posts here, the flood waters did some major damage at the end of June. I've been steadily weeding out the secondarily damaged books sense the initial push to clean out the soaked and mildewing books. The secondary damaged books have been a little harder to find. And I have to go box by box, book by book and check every one of them.

In the mean time I have also been working on the back end of the site. Fixing the bug that took down the search feature, doing a redesign of the site, sorting out the stock list, adding new shops to the mix, and doing the final push to read the last of the contest entries for the Brighid's Fire Books Fiction Manuscript Contest.

Last Thursday I finally heard from the State of NY about my small business flood grant application. And had an inspector come out to see that I and the books were real. So I have hope.

But its taking some time. So adding to the mix of things I'm doing, I've also started working in the neighborhood doing odd jobs to earn enough to keep these shops going until things turn around and the shops start paying for them selves again.

After things start to calm down a little my next major project is to rewrite my short book on books. And I think add a wish list to the new Shop Harlequin site.

Posted by derstaffo at September 24, 2006 08:44 AM

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