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how to get Sara out of bed before 9am
Announce a library booksale starting at 9:30.
I checked in advance and they were only going to be accepting cash so I had to get up early enough this morning to swing by the ATM; I didn't know if this would be the "sell books at close to cost" or "sell books for a pittance" type of booksale, so I had to budget for the former. Luckily, it turned out to be the latter -- at 1EUR a piece, I could pick up anything that looked like it might be vaguely interesting, and came away with 22 books. A lot of them are old Ph.D. dissertations on game theory related topics which I thought there was a chance Joel might find useful so I got them. I got a few things for myself -- The Boole-DeMorgan correspondence, Bibliography and research manual of the history of mathematics, and some general philosophy of language/math/science books. Nothing too outstanding, but still worth getting up before the sun had wholly risen.
I checked in advance and they were only going to be accepting cash so I had to get up early enough this morning to swing by the ATM; I didn't know if this would be the "sell books at close to cost" or "sell books for a pittance" type of booksale, so I had to budget for the former. Luckily, it turned out to be the latter -- at 1EUR a piece, I could pick up anything that looked like it might be vaguely interesting, and came away with 22 books. A lot of them are old Ph.D. dissertations on game theory related topics which I thought there was a chance Joel might find useful so I got them. I got a few things for myself -- The Boole-DeMorgan correspondence, Bibliography and research manual of the history of mathematics, and some general philosophy of language/math/science books. Nothing too outstanding, but still worth getting up before the sun had wholly risen.