17 posts tagged “harry potter”

Friday afternoon I was at 244 on the library hold list for Harry Potter. Where am I right now?

161.

The Husband braved the crowds to pick up our copy Friday night while I went downtown with D and her family and saw an 11 pm showing of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Our plans for Friday night changed pretty frequently. Here's how it went.

6:30- Wristband pickup time. We got in line when it was halfway around the building. The Husband told his siblings that we'd be home by 7. Hah! Plan is we go home after getting wristband, have dinner, come back for dessert at Cheesecake Factory, then go to the bookstore and get Harry Potter.

7- We've gone maybe halfway down the block towards the doors to the store. Husband of person in line in front of us goes up to see what's going on. He comes back and tells us the line splits at the doors, so it should be a while. He also tells us with the number of people, we should get our book about 1:45. I call D and let her know I will be going to the movie with her and then we can come back and meet everyone at the bookstore in time to get the book.

7:45- We're finally around the corner. The line does not split like lady's husband said, it turns into one of those amusement park wrappy line things. We enter the wrappy part about now, after letting the siblings and D know it's going to take a while for dinner.

8:15- We finally make it inside to get the wristband. We get 225. Really? We waited almost two hours to be 225? Later we realize we were Gryffindor 225, and that means we get them at the back registers, as opposed to the music registers or the front registers. We weren't 225. We were 775, really. They tell us they'll start lining people up at 11:30 and the Husband will be last in line. We figure it'll be a while and D and I can still meet them at the bookstore.

We went to dinner, then parted company after more plan changes- originally we were going to all go get ice cream but D and I didn't have time so we went to the grocery store and got movie candy, then went down. The Husband dropped his sister off at our house, then they went down for ice cream and off to the book store.

12:45- The movie is over and I call the Husband to see where he is in line. He's home already. He said he only spent about 15 minutes in line, they were so well organized.

I went home and we were in bed asleep by about 1:30.

Since we only have the one copy, we've been nice to each other and we've been reading it aloud in the car. We went up for his sister's birthday on Saturday, about an hour each way, and then we bought a Wii on Sunday, and that ended up being about an hour each way, so we've read almost 300 pages now. The Husband's excited because he doesn't have rehearsal tonight, so he's going to come with me when we run errands and we'll read more in the car. Yay!

Yesterday morning I ended up at 284 on the Harry Potter hold list. I figured that's where I'd stay until this weekend when they handed the books out.

Not so. I just checked and right now I'm at 244. Huh. I wonder what the deal is. I had figured what with all that went down yesterday that I wouldn't get a book right away and I was okay with that, but now I'm starting to wonder. We'll know by this weekend!

In other news, the Husband and I had planned on just showing up eventually at Barnes and Noble to get a number to get a Harry Potter book. Then we saw they'd start handing out numbers at 6:30, so we thought maybe it'd be a good idea to get one then and go about our merry way. Then I heard from someone that their bookstore had to get extra books in because what they had didn't cover the number of reserves they already had, so now we're wondering if we shouldn't call ahead and reserve one. That was on his to do list, we'll see if it actually gets done.

When I left work yesterday I was 929 on the reserve list at the library. Since the number yesterday had dropped since the day before, I figured I'd check this morning and see where I was.

682.

How the hell did I drop so fast? I was going to page back to the reserve list and that's when I discovered something interesting and figured out the mystery. I have Mouse Tracks, which is a Firefox application that lets you do things with the mouse that you'd normally have to point and click to do. It's really cool, just swiping the mouse to the left to page back, or making an h to go to your home page or a backwards U to print something, but it's also a pain in the but when you're trying to highlight text and find yourself with another Firefox window. Yeah. Lots of trial and error on this one. Anyway, I accidentally refreshed the page instead of going back and that's when I saw it.

645.

What was going on? I decided to periodically refresh the page and, sure enough, my number kept going down. Eventually I figured it out. I bet the library is processing their books today. In our library, the way it works is you catalog the book, then to activate it in the system you check it in. At that point if there's a hold it comes up. I know the public library doesn't use the same software we do, but I bet that's what's going on. So, if the article I read the other day is correct, I'm thinking my hold number will end up being somewhere around 279. We'll have to see. It's been an hour and I'm at 402 right now. Who knows?

Yesterday I was at 931 on the library hold list for Harry Potter. When I renewed some of my library books this afternoon, I decided to make a quick check and see where I was today.

928

Wow. Since yesterday even. I'm tempted to check every day and see if it drops more. I promise, you'll be the first to know.

Usually I update these things on Mondays or Tuesdays, depending on how busy things get. This is the last Monday before the new Harry Potter book comes out, so why isn't this the final "Where am I on the Harry Potter library hold list" update? Because I'm going to update on Friday too. That's how big of a dork I am.

Last week: 936
This week: 931

Huh. I did some googling and as of last Thursday, there were over 2000 people signed up to get Harry Potter. They'd ordered 650 copies and were thinking of getting more if demand was great enough. So now I don't know. Will I get a book? Won't I? You'll know on Monday!

I should say, it's not like it'll be a big deal if I don't get one right away. It'll just mean the Husband and I can't read at the same time.

Last week: 939

This week: 936.

Last week: 942

This week: 939.

The library has all sorts of publicity about their book party, but nothing about how many books they're ordering. I'd be willing to bet, though, that I'll probably be getting one. I'd like to think, that is...

Last week- 946

This week- 942

The library has posters up for the "Come pick up your book!" event, but nothing on how many they're going to be ordering. In other news, The movie's coming up soon! A friend of ours has a birthday about that time, so she's making a night out of it. We're all going out to dinner, then seeing the movie. Should be fun!

Things are crazy around here, so I missed last week's Harry Potter list update. I think I remember looking, though, and I think I was at 949, down 4 from the previous week. So...

Last week: 949, I think.
This week: 946

It does keep going down, and there's about a month to go. We'll see where I end up.

Last week: 957

This week: 953.

I'm down four. So there you go.