I had lunch yesterday afternoon at Spanky's Roadhouse here in Denver with Peter, my friend and former Tattered Cover Bookstore officemate. Peter is doing well, although being a big Denver Broncos fan, he is still disappointed about the team's 10-7 loss this past Sunday in the AFC Championship game, although I notice he is still proudly wearing his Denver Broncos cap, as seen in the photograph above. Peter was the Accounts Payables person at the Tattered Cover for many years. After that local bookstore chain went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, it was decided that the best course of action would be to sell it to Barnes and Noble, which promised everyone the chain would continue as an independent operation. And then after the sale went through, promptly laid off all the back-office people and kept only a single manager and the sales floor personal, much like Follett Higher Education Group did when the University of Denver Bookstore was outsourced to them. The moral of the story: beware corporate takeovers. In any case, Peter and I had a nice lunch, and he caught me up on how everyone we used to work with back when I was the Tattered Cover's bookkeeper is doing these days. Great to get together with you again, Peter!
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