Todays forecast: Mostly sunny with a Mosquito factor of 98. Dont leave your home without ample protection.
Thats what the weatherman should be telling us. I think its time to start treating those pesky little winged monsters as a weather phenomenon and start warning people about how bad they are and to what degree different areas are infested.
In the winter we have the wind chill warning, summer should have a mosquito infestation warning.
It looks like Im on my way to becoming self-employed.
Well, semi-self-employed anyway. Ill probably have to keep a part-time job to offset certain inevitable monthly bills.
My good friend and fellow comic book aficionado, Josh and I have decided to quit complaining about all the stupid things we see about the local comic book retailers and get into the business ourselves.
Weve both got tons of stuff wed be willing to part with to use as start-up store stock, so now all we have to do is get a little bit more, pay down our respective personal debts, save a little money, take out a small loan, and BLAM-O! Were in business!
One of the things I really want to do with this is create a retail comic book environment that is accessible to everybody. Not just hard-core superhero fans. I want to keep the superhero aspect of the business to a minimum and give more shelf space to a lot of the really great non-super hero comics out there. Books like Sandman, Cerebus, Bone, Strangers in Paradise, The Goon, Conan, Sock Monkey, Usagi Yojimbo, Archie, Uncle Scrooge, Tintin, Asterix, Elf Quest, Hellboy, Liberty Meadows and lots of Manga, Anime DVDs, action figures, plush toys, original art, used video games, and lots of really cool t-shirts. I want it to be a place where your girlfriend brings you, not the other way around.
I also must find the money I need to buy a good printer for my computer. Its the only thing stopping me from unleashing upon an unsuspecting populace my self published mini-comics. Then youre all in for a treat.
Yesterday I finally got the snake from my Grandmas house. Shes moved out into one of those assisted living homes, so now her kids are plundering the stuff she left in her old house. Actually theyre planning on selling it, so theyre working on cleaning out 50 plus years of clutter.
Anyway, Ive always loved this old stuffed snake. Its about five feet long and filled with styrofoam bits. Its really old too, and Grandma didnt like us playing with it too much for fear of us wrecking it.
But its mine now! Mom made my brothers go help her clean yesterday and they brought me the snake, because, well, I said I wanted the thing. So now Ive got my two favorite things from Grandmas house; first, the old Batmobile toy car and now the big snake. It makes me happy.
I also must remember to wash and vacuum out my car today. The high school is putting on a little car show, and I told my brother he could enter it. Im a little nervous about letting him drive it. Thered better not be a scratch on it when he brings it back.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
~ Mark Twain
Thats what the weatherman should be telling us. I think its time to start treating those pesky little winged monsters as a weather phenomenon and start warning people about how bad they are and to what degree different areas are infested.
In the winter we have the wind chill warning, summer should have a mosquito infestation warning.
It looks like Im on my way to becoming self-employed.
Well, semi-self-employed anyway. Ill probably have to keep a part-time job to offset certain inevitable monthly bills.
My good friend and fellow comic book aficionado, Josh and I have decided to quit complaining about all the stupid things we see about the local comic book retailers and get into the business ourselves.
Weve both got tons of stuff wed be willing to part with to use as start-up store stock, so now all we have to do is get a little bit more, pay down our respective personal debts, save a little money, take out a small loan, and BLAM-O! Were in business!
One of the things I really want to do with this is create a retail comic book environment that is accessible to everybody. Not just hard-core superhero fans. I want to keep the superhero aspect of the business to a minimum and give more shelf space to a lot of the really great non-super hero comics out there. Books like Sandman, Cerebus, Bone, Strangers in Paradise, The Goon, Conan, Sock Monkey, Usagi Yojimbo, Archie, Uncle Scrooge, Tintin, Asterix, Elf Quest, Hellboy, Liberty Meadows and lots of Manga, Anime DVDs, action figures, plush toys, original art, used video games, and lots of really cool t-shirts. I want it to be a place where your girlfriend brings you, not the other way around.
I also must find the money I need to buy a good printer for my computer. Its the only thing stopping me from unleashing upon an unsuspecting populace my self published mini-comics. Then youre all in for a treat.
Yesterday I finally got the snake from my Grandmas house. Shes moved out into one of those assisted living homes, so now her kids are plundering the stuff she left in her old house. Actually theyre planning on selling it, so theyre working on cleaning out 50 plus years of clutter.
Anyway, Ive always loved this old stuffed snake. Its about five feet long and filled with styrofoam bits. Its really old too, and Grandma didnt like us playing with it too much for fear of us wrecking it.
But its mine now!
Mom made my brothers go help her clean yesterday and they brought me the snake, because, well, I said I wanted the thing. So now Ive got my two favorite things from Grandmas house; first, the old Batmobile toy car and now the big snake. It makes me happy.
I also must remember to wash and vacuum out my car today. The high school is putting on a little car show, and I told my brother he could enter it. Im a little nervous about letting him drive it. Thered better not be a scratch on it when he brings it back.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
~ Mark Twain
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