Once again, I realize that I'm spoiled

I've figured out one thing that I'm going to do with my time off over the summer. I'm going to rebuild the deck at my sisters house, and build the deck that my parents have always wanted to have at their house down the shore. Neither one of these projects should be too bad to complete.

I consider myself to be pretty savvy when it comes to these types of things, but I wanted some insurance. I've seen a book on building decks before, and I wanted to go ahead and get it just so I can make sure that I get everything done properly. It never hurts to have a little help. I'm currently outside what I consider to be a fairly large city, and went to a Barnes and Noble. You can't even imagine how disappointed I was in my trip there.

First, they didn't have the book I wanted. In fact, the really didn't really have any book that would have satisfied what I was looking for in terms of a deck building reference. Second, I was looking for some other books, current affairs and political science type, and they had NOTHING I was interested in. If it hadn't been released in the past month, they didn't have it. Very disappointing. I'm used to walking into 2 story Barnes and Noble's that are fully stocked and never leave you wanting more. I go to those stores by me, and people are sitting comfortably, scattered through out the store reading. Here, it was like the store was an old pharmacy that they squeezed a Barnes and Noble in.