Life is strange ( Read more... )

All day Monday, packages arrive at Arkham via various delivery services. One package for Giles, one for Alex, one for another doctor on the service and another for a nurse. Assuming these packages are actually opened, all they will find inside will either be a Newton's Cradle, or a very unassuming clock radio. Except for the fourth, of course.

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The more of Stark Tower that was completed, the more walls and tarps and banners were utilized in covering and disguising the building. It was all a tremendous secret. A 'surprise' being kept from the city. Hiring was done elsewhere and those hired on were sworn to secrecy about anything they did learn in the process. It was all kept tight lipped ( Read more... )

John and Allison recently did inventory. Not that they ever don't do inventory, but it's been some months now since they took over Oubliette Video so they have a good idea of what does and doesn't rent.

And what doesn't rent? Is getting sold. For somewhere between $1 and $5, depending on how long it's been in the stores.

Overdrawn at the Memory ( Read more... )

It's true. Possibly.

Dib is camped out in one, bagel and coffee set next to his laptop. He's dressed like any other 'office' worker type, in a suit in tie.

Except it's about two in the afternoon, and he got up about an hour ago.

He loves his job.

Someone is learning their lessons. And is not going outside their damn home on a holiday. But that doesn't mean Dib wants to watch the ball drop and ring in the new year alone. So he invited everyone he knows ( Read more... )

The novelty of 'honest' employment is still going strong. There is organizing! There is customer service! There is friendly coworker interaction! Charlie knows that she'll never be the best at, well, anything; but she'll work harder than anyone else. Allison and John have been so awesome, no way she's letting them down ( Read more... )

And the last minute shoppers are just beginning to realize they need to get their asses in gear. The stock in stores is starting to look rather picked over ( Read more... )

The weather forecasts had all been predicting snow on Saturday. To the chagrin of some, they're not wrong. It's just a light snow, a couple inches, not likely to stick even a day, but it's paired with biting wind and occasional bouts of freezing rain. There have even been power outages reported across the state, though not in Gotham (yet ( Read more... )

Gothamites are recovering from Halloween the same way most of the country does: by starting Christmas shopping. While people are looking over their shoulders and not lingering anywhere long. There are still mad men about ( Read more... )