Comic-Con 2010 is officially over and we have unloaded and returned the truck. Happily, not in 100 degree weather after yesterday's 10-hour drive broken up by a quick visit with the Boys in Bakersfield (my brother and his partner and the dogs ( Read more... )

For the three of you who might actually read this, none of this is news except maybe the pictures. Assuming they show up ( Read more... )

It's been quite a while and quite a late spring/early summer. The week before Easter my father finally shuffled off this mortal coil in the way he would have chosen, asleep in his own bed after an unattractive couple of days in the hospital. We'd been expecting it for a good 3-4 years--after the first 12 months, the Hospice people finally decided ( Read more... )

Spent the whole of last week  reacting to the exhaustiveness of Comic-on, wrestling with the new inventory database (wonderful but with some odd personality quirks), catching up with orders and trying to get unpacked. My open suitcase on the bedroom floor is almost empty, the dozen boxes stacked on the deck outside my office have been emptied and ( Read more... )

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Yes, Comic-Con was last week. The usual madness, mayhem and wacky hi-jinks. Oh, and we sold  10-12 boxes of books for the best grossing fair ever.  ::is dead::

We drove down last Monday after sending the stock down on the big truck with B's regular retail booth stuff, with a brief stop in Pasadena to deliver a complete run of Doc Savage paperbacks ( Read more... )

Whew! We spent the weekend and the first half of the week madly packing up boxes of books (and pulps and comics on B's part0  to the tune of two pallet loads including bookcases for next week's madness and excitement. The big truck (of which my two little pallets are but a fraction) is loading today, so anything else will have to be drug along in ( Read more... )

Not usually up for the sunrise (physically, I mean, not a lack of enthusiasm for the sight). However, on the rare occasion that I wake early and can't go back to sleep I rather enjoy it. Proof of the novelty of this ituation was MoMD's wandering in to make sure I was all right...early rising is so unlike me.

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Now I see why rainkatt spends so much time here...this is too much fun. I've already rearranged the format and uploaded icons and answered some of your kind welcoming emails. Thank you!

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