1. there is an evil woman in soho who will try to get you to buy four balls of yarn to make a hat

2. the brooklyn library does not appear to be accepting remote renewals today, so you will have to go out in the snow to either renew your book or return it—it will only take you an hour to finish it

3. snow falling in the city sometimes makes you very sappy

4. the internet is kind of boring lately and you have better things you could be doing anyway
   

postscript, in the form of a book quote on my way to the final pages:

Jobless, Jimmy Herf came out of the Pulizter Building. He stood beside a pile of pink newspapers on the curb, taking deep breaths, looking up the glistening shaft of the Woolworth. It was a sunny day, the sky was a robin's egg blue. He turned north and began to walk uptown. As he got away from it the Woolworth pulled out like a telescope. He walked norther through the city of shiny windows, through the city of scrambled alphabets, through the city of gilt letter signs.