Busting heads, in a spiritual sense.
Today was a good day.
I woke up at around 11 after finally getting to sleep at 4:30 in the morning. My internal clock was screwed up when I stayed up all night to go out in the wee hours of the morning on Black Friday last week. For the rest of the week I was stuck downing Mountain Dew in the afternoon to keep myself awake, but the caffeine was also a shock to the system that kept me up until all hours of the night due to my screwy internal clock.
I went down to Indy to meet up with the guys for a bit of Ghostbusting since we missed the Indy tree lighting due to Dustin being sick. There was a Christmas festival going on in Mooresville, their home town, but it was mostly over by the time I got there. We walked around for a bit, played Apples to Apples for awhile at Jon's house, and then I headed out.
I also had the pleasure of eating dinner at Johnny Carrino's with Bill and Rachel. I hadn't eaten there before and would definitely recommend it to everyone. It was nice to get a chance to catch up.
After that I went on a pilgrimage to the Half Price Books which was just across the parking lot from the restaurant. They had a hardback copy of 2010, a book that I have in paperback but I've been trying to slowly replace those with hardcovers, and Worldwar: In the Balance by Harry Turtledove. I loaned my paperback copy of that book to a friend years ago and never got it back, so it'll be nice to have a hardcover edition of the first book in one of my favorite alternate history series.
When I finished at the Greenwoold Half Price Books I rushed around 465 to their other location on 86th street near the north end of Indy. There I hit gold again. The last time I read through The Wheel of Time series in preparation for the Knife of Dreams release I'd been working on replacing my paperback copies with hardcovers from the local used book store. I also bought a copy of The Eye of the World at a book signing so that I could have a signed copy of the first book in the series. I was missing The Great Hunt and The Dragon Reborn, the second and third books and two of the more popular in the series that are difficult to come by because people don't want to sell them, and A Crown of Swords, the seventh book in the series. I'd found that in the used book store in Muncie, but by the time I got to reading it in the series it had been sold. I managed to find a copy of it at the store on 86th street though, as well as a copy of 2061. Now the only hardcover I'm missing in that series is 2001. The real gem was finding a copy of Stephen King's novella "Cycle of the Werewolf," upon which the delightfully cheesy Cory Haim/Gary Busey vehicle "Silver Bullet" was based. I was terrified of that book when I was a kid, and I've flirted with buying it over the years but could never bring myself to pay the $15-20 cover price for what amounts to a 100 page paperback book. Yay for cheap used book stores.
I woke up at around 11 after finally getting to sleep at 4:30 in the morning. My internal clock was screwed up when I stayed up all night to go out in the wee hours of the morning on Black Friday last week. For the rest of the week I was stuck downing Mountain Dew in the afternoon to keep myself awake, but the caffeine was also a shock to the system that kept me up until all hours of the night due to my screwy internal clock.
I went down to Indy to meet up with the guys for a bit of Ghostbusting since we missed the Indy tree lighting due to Dustin being sick. There was a Christmas festival going on in Mooresville, their home town, but it was mostly over by the time I got there. We walked around for a bit, played Apples to Apples for awhile at Jon's house, and then I headed out.
I also had the pleasure of eating dinner at Johnny Carrino's with Bill and Rachel. I hadn't eaten there before and would definitely recommend it to everyone. It was nice to get a chance to catch up.
After that I went on a pilgrimage to the Half Price Books which was just across the parking lot from the restaurant. They had a hardback copy of 2010, a book that I have in paperback but I've been trying to slowly replace those with hardcovers, and Worldwar: In the Balance by Harry Turtledove. I loaned my paperback copy of that book to a friend years ago and never got it back, so it'll be nice to have a hardcover edition of the first book in one of my favorite alternate history series.
When I finished at the Greenwoold Half Price Books I rushed around 465 to their other location on 86th street near the north end of Indy. There I hit gold again. The last time I read through The Wheel of Time series in preparation for the Knife of Dreams release I'd been working on replacing my paperback copies with hardcovers from the local used book store. I also bought a copy of The Eye of the World at a book signing so that I could have a signed copy of the first book in the series. I was missing The Great Hunt and The Dragon Reborn, the second and third books and two of the more popular in the series that are difficult to come by because people don't want to sell them, and A Crown of Swords, the seventh book in the series. I'd found that in the used book store in Muncie, but by the time I got to reading it in the series it had been sold. I managed to find a copy of it at the store on 86th street though, as well as a copy of 2061. Now the only hardcover I'm missing in that series is 2001. The real gem was finding a copy of Stephen King's novella "Cycle of the Werewolf," upon which the delightfully cheesy Cory Haim/Gary Busey vehicle "Silver Bullet" was based. I was terrified of that book when I was a kid, and I've flirted with buying it over the years but could never bring myself to pay the $15-20 cover price for what amounts to a 100 page paperback book. Yay for cheap used book stores.