1/ I’m going to be honest. We’re having terrible weather (wet snow, hazard driving conditions, more to come in the next day) here in New Hampshire/Vermont up north. My bookstore is right in that weather zone. We’ve been having the *worst* sales season for Christmas in the last 9 years we’ve been open. If we don’t earn a lot more in the next week (leading up to Christmas), we will struggle until April, when the tourists/seasonal residents start coming back…