A Nightstand saga

My favorite day of the month is the fourth Tuesday of the month, when 5 Minutes 4 Books (5M4B) hosts their “What’s on Your Nightstand?” carnival and my “to-be-read” (TBR) list grows by leaps and bounds.

I’ve been known to deliberately NOT schedule things for the fourth Tuesday of the month because I knew I’d be hopping around the blogosphere finding out what everybody’s reading.

I was really thinking when I decided to schedule one of my twice-weekly trips to Grand Island on TUESDAYS.

I was thinking even more when I FAILED TO RETURN a library book to the library in Lincoln when I was there last. That meant I ended up with a book overdue (the one book I had out prior to starting my new regimen.)

But I was REALLY, REALLY thinking when I figured yesterday would be a great time to take that overdue library book back to Lincoln.

It made brilliant sense in my mind. Drive to Grand Island in the morning (1.25 hrs), work 8 hours, drive to Lincoln from Grand Island (1.5 hours), have supper with my parents and little sister (it turned out my oldest little brother was there too), drop books off at the library, and then drive back to Columbus from Lincoln (1.5 hrs).

Combining the trips into a triangle meant I only added 1.75 hrs to my drive time for the day–instead of tacking on the 3 hr round trip to Lincoln some other day (and having to pay all the fines that’d accrue while I was waiting for enough time to accomplish said trip.)

So it was a smart idea.

Except for one problem.

Yesterday was the fourth Tuesday of the month.

I posted my Nightstand post, visited a couple of other posts before I left for work.

Then I was gone for 15 hours straight without internet access.

And I still had to work the next day.

Which means I am now, just now finally getting around to reading what’s on everyone’s nightstand.

That, by the way, is why I haven’t posted today.

=)