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To keep my funny bone feeling sharp, I do not adjust my TV set.  I read, or, to join the flock of me2 techsters, iRead.

To accomplish that, we stopped first at McCutchen's Magnolia House, home of our favorite dedicated owners of the former Blue Willow Cafe, and now reincarnated as a finer version of the former, the antiques cleared out and offering a hot bar, meat with either two and three veggies, with a variety of enticing desserts spread across the top of the bar.  Of course, the menu offered inducements for further investigations in hungry haunting before/after visiting UBC.

[Cue segue music]  At Unclaimed Baggage Center, I tried on a $1300 100% cashmere men's coat (Giorgio Beverly Hills?) priced at $225 or thereabouts.

Current budget not cut out for cashmere, I opted for a lightweight coat and some pants ($10 to $15 each*) to leave room for books.

Also stopped at Keepsakes on the Scottsboro town square, me picking up another book and my wife some scrapbooking supplies.

Later on, we shopped at Mike's Merchandise in Huntsville and added to the assortment.  The list:

• Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (Blue Ribbon Books edition) by Carl Sandburg
• The Debate On The Constitution, Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During Struggle over Ratification: Part Two
• A People Numerous & Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence, by John Shy
• The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall and The Battle for the Supreme Court, by Cliff Sloan and David McKean
• Shadows At Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History, by Karl Jacoby
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins
• The Spy Within: Larry Chin and China's Penetration of the CIA, by Tod Hoffman
• News of a Kidnapping, by Gabriel García Márquez (translated by Edith Grossman)
• The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History, by Harry S. Dent, Jr.
• My First Time: a collection of first punk show stories, edited by Chris Duncan

Swung by Tuesday Morning for cards and such.  Stopped at Staples for office supplies.  Ate afternoon dessert at Dairy Queen and dinner at Outback Restaurant (wondering for the second time in a row why we bother eating at Outback with their inconsistent seating priority process (note: we won't be going back)).
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* Pants: Pierre Cardin Paris, $3.29; Dockers (never worn), $10.59; Kenneth Cole New York, $15.59; Brooks Brothers, $12.59.  Coat: Alan Lebow, $15.59.