by Alan Beatts
Despite the strangeness and historic elements of 2020, it's actually
been pretty boring in a day-to-day way. I don't know if that matches
your experience but, around Borderlands, it's mostly been The Usual.
Or, perhaps I should say, the "new" usual. Sales are slow-ish but we're
managing and otherwise we're just plugging along. Don't get me wrong,
"plugging along" is just great, given how things might be, but it means I
don't have a whole lot of news for you all. One or two things, sure,
but there really hasn't been much excitement around the shop.
Which is just _fine_ with me. Absolutely. In 2020 excitement has rarely, if ever, been a good thing.
Before
I get to the store news, such as it is, I'm going to make a (thankfully
rare) public service announcement. I had been on the fence about
mentioning this but today a friend who's a doctor with the SF Department
of Public Health stopped by the shop. She was a valuable resource for
us in March and April while we were figuring out how to manage the
pandemic and, as you'd expect, we started chatting about the current
state of affairs. That conversation made up my mind. So, here goes -
