I am signed up with BookBub, a website that alerts you everyday to ebook bargains. Often enough, a bestseller with a hefty price tag will be offered for $1.99 and some books, of varying literary merit, are FREE. Frequently, new and capable authors will offer their books for free in order to build a readership. You can click through a questionnaire to indicate your preferences – so you won’t get any Zombie offers, for instance.

It has been a very useful service to me and many times I have opted for a FREE book for a quick read and an escape. In addition to bestsellers, books that are extremely well-written, but appeal to a quirky, limited audience are offered for low prices.

Today, my suggestions included a book of little-known information and piqued my interest. In the brief blurb about the book, how to milk a yak was listed. Okay, that probably wasn’t the hook to reel me in. Yak milking? I am at the present facing assembling a motorized, 234 lb. treadmill that arrived at my doorstep. It flashed across my mind that when I get this thing together, I do not want to visualize walking up a steep mountain trail to milk my yak.

And what would I do with knowing how to milk a yak? Turn to the person in line behind me at the grocery and remark that none of the tabloids I sneak a look at while waiting to reach the cashier mention the fact that such and such celebrity probably doesn’t know how to milk a yak?

Here is a bit of trivial information about me – a minor confession, if you will. I sometimes pick a long line that includes baskets filled to the brim so I can seek longer peeks at the tabloid articles. Why? I don’t know. I imagine it’s the low brow instinct in me to be drawn to the gossip people yak about.