http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/ LughnassadhBooks: Planting the seeds of yesterday for the dreams of tomorrow Copyright 2007 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:29:51 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 20% off all books in stock. For the next 3 days every order gets an extra 20% off. Offer ends at midnight EST Feb. 14, 2007.]]> http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2007/02/site_wide_3_day.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2007/02/site_wide_3_day.html News Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:29:51 -0500 I just finished reading Robert Gray's Playing the Bookshop Memory Game Online printed in todays issue of Shelf Awareness. It's the game in which you the customer presents a book seller with a mystery of matching you up with the right book, based on memory and clues. This game is what prompted me to set up the Q&A's, http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2007/01/memory_game.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2007/01/memory_game.html Articles Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:01:36 -0500 Is google book search fair use? Thats the name this pod-cast that was posted on Jan. 9, 2007. And it brings up some really good points. Some of which that can have far reaching effects, even outside of the publishing industry. http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2007/01/is_google_book.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2007/01/is_google_book.html News Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:05:46 -0500 But only 3 get the top place.... As you may, or not as the case may be, know I help sponsor and judge the Brighid's Fire Books Annual Fiction Contest. This year was a challenge to get through, and well, having good reading material helped to keep me from being washed away with the flood waters. for that I have to thank all of you that entered. You kept my summer from being just clean-up work. As our custom as early as possible on the 1st. we announce the winners. So forward on to the winners. http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2007/01/winners_winners.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2007/01/winners_winners.html News Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:31:28 -0500 http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/12/marry_xmass.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/12/marry_xmass.html News Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:44:15 -0500 Q&A on "Japan Today and Tomorrow", I got to thinking about the social implications of books. Books can be used to help move a country in a particular way. Whether its banning them or making sure that they say a specific thing. Then today just because I was thinking about it, when my friend received a book from his brother as a Christmas present about his hometown area in Texas the 2004 Christmas snow. I decided to write about local books.]]> http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/12/local_books_the.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/12/local_books_the.html Articles Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:55:02 -0500 Can you help me, I have this publication? Publisher: The Osaka Mainichi Publishing Company 1928 Osaka, Japan December 25, 1928 Printer & Publisher Riichiro Araki Japan Today & Tomorrow 1928 Number 2 This publication has historical value as it tells about a developing Japan with many beautful color prints. A: Its not very straight forward answer, but here I go. First a short history of the company. http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/12/q_i_have_this_p.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/12/q_i_have_this_p.html Questions and Answers Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:29:49 -0500 http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/12/this_was_in_one.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/12/this_was_in_one.html Quotes Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:30:09 -0500 I have not gotten much in the way of stock up onto the site for sale as of yet, so I'm not sure that I'll be running much in the way of sales this Christmas. Although I'm sure I'll be doing something between Thanksgiving and Christmas. So watch for it. http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/11/updated_shippin.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/11/updated_shippin.html News Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:21:08 -0500 The latest is that I have been denyed the state grant money from the NYS Department of Labor's Individual and Family Flood Grant. Now I get the pleasure of going through their appeals system. More paperwork and longer to wait to see what I can do to rebuild. http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/11/latest_word_in.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/11/latest_word_in.html News Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:27:00 -0500 And the trick was played on us. The furnace came in, I even helped get it into the basement and set in place. Thought we were in for a nice treat, namely heat.... The trick was that somewhere between the manufacturer and us is the flange for the duct work and a water heating coil. So its the ultimate tease, a furnace that we can't use yet. http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/11/well_halloween.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/11/well_halloween.html News Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:17:38 -0500 Trick or Treat.... I'll know in an hour or two... Workmen are scheduled to be here today, to install the new furnace that is also to be delivered today. So this will be the ultimate treat and I'll be warm... http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/10/halloween.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/10/halloween.html News Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:30:42 -0500 I got a call yesterday from the Empire Small Business Flood Grant telling me that the deadline for documentation was extended. Pushed out to March 31st. And asking me if I wanted to reconsider withdrawing my application. http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/10/scratch_that_la.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/10/scratch_that_la.html News Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:58:36 -0500 Well its official, I turned down $20,000 in free grant money from the government. Sounds strange don't it? http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/10/its_official_i.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/10/its_official_i.html News Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:17:51 -0500 Its getting cold, and colder, each day here. And its hard to think about anything when your cold. Or at least I find it hard to think about anything that isn't about how cold I am. And the fun dosn't stop there. The past three months I've been filling out paperwork and doing what I have to to quilify for the NYS grants for flood victoms. And I can't say that it was fun doing so. http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/10/its_hard_to_thi.html http://www.lughnassadhbooks.com/archives/2006/10/its_hard_to_thi.html News Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:15:38 -0500