Thoughts and Gripes.

First off, comics have become way more expensive than they are worth in my opinion. There are only a few titles out there right now that I think are worth the money. Sadly, trades are worth the money in my opinion. You get the whole story at once, and they actually work out to be a bit cheaper than the individual issues. As much as I hate to say it, I think that's where the industry is going to be heading. Actually, in my opinion, is pretty much there. There aren't many individual stories anymore. There are always these huge arcs. Why? That way it can go into a trade. I really think they are going for the bookstore market. A trade is going to sell much better in Borders than an individual issue.

(can you tell I bought comics yesterday, and paid way more than I wanted to, and that was AFTER weeding out the crap!)

I'm just really slow at getting things done. The second series of Doctor Who has been done for almost a month now. 13 episodes total. I think I have watched six of these episodes. You'd think that they are broadcast once a week on Saturday nights, I could find the 45 minutes to watch it at some point in the week, and stay relativily up to date with it, but alas, I can't do that. Venture Brothers is the same way, I've only seen the first episode of this season. It's not that these shows bore me, they are some of the best there is out there right now. But, I just always put it off to do something else.

Heather went home to visit her parents this week. Whilst there, she got shingles. She is on her way back to Ames as I write this, deathly afraid of me thinking she will look "not cute" with Shingles. She can be kind of paranoid sometimes, but that can be for the best I suppose. She also has reason to be, which I won't get into.

Um...Kinda sorta looking forward to Gencon. I always feel just, "meh" to leaving and not sleeping at home. Plus I think I want a vacation where I'm not doing ANYTHING. I've never had one of those. I guess when I worked at the radio station, I'd take a week off and just play video games the whole time. They would tell me I wasted my vacation at the station. I said I wasn't there and didn't have to see people, so I was happy. I'm sure when I get there though, I'll have a ton of fun.

All right, started this post hours ago, so I think I'll just end it now. Bye.

Come in, she said, I'll give you shelter from the storm.

Hello all.

Yeah the week in review thing didn't last very long. Mainly because the weeks became mirror images of themselves. Each one only vaugely different than the one that came before it. Nothing at all wrong with that. It means things are going well.

This Thursday I felt bad. Heather's power cord for her Apple laptop shorted out and burnt through the insulation. So she asked me if I'd go down with her to the Apple store and then to Hu Hot. Well, when we left I wasn't feeling very great, and it just got worse as the afternoon progressed. The Apple store lived up to the pretentious tone I expected it to have. (Don't get me wrong, I liked it a lot.) The only thing that was a little much for me was the "genius bar". Mainly because the overuse of the word genius is one of the things that really get to me. If I remember right, the employee had the title of "genius" too. If I were feeling better, I would of probably mocked it a lot more.

She got her cord replaced and we were off. She then asked if I was feeling good enough to go to Hu Hot. I said that I wasn't all that hungry because of how I felt. She then said that we didn't have to go. I told her it was her birthday so we should go. She then said that if I wasn't feeling good we didn't have to go. So we didn't go. She was in an extremely good mood on the way down, and on the way back she didn't talk at all. When she dropped me off, she just said "I'll see you later." Which isn't how things usually go.

She then told me later that night that she was upset that we didn't go. I then told her that I felt extremely horrible that we didn't go, since she really wanted to. She then seemed very touched that I felt horrible because of this. She then said something about ex boyfriends never caring if she was unhappy or something like that. So I think I scored some major points by just not being a jerk. Which is something I do normally. (well, ok, to people I like).

I just downloaded a program called CleverKeys. It's suppose to allow me to look up words from any program I'm using. It is the nerdiest thing ever. But if I can figure out how it's used, I am going to absolutely love it.

It looks as if Heather is going to be around Ames for awhile. Which is good. She's moving out of where she is living now, and that is an EXTREMELY wonderful thing. She's a great girl, but has some trust issues due to some recent events in her life. Living by herself I think will help that a lot. For those who haven't met her, you shouldn't feel too bad. She is extremely shy, so anytime there is a possiblility of new people she hasn't met being somewhere she'll try to get out of going. But once she meets people she is more comfortable with being around them.

Um, nothing much else. That's about it. Many books and albums coming out that I'm excited about, but no one is probably that interested in that.

Oh, the other thing that has been on my mind for a few months now is actually cutting the hair. This means it would be the end of an era I know, but sometimes change is good. If this happens it will probably happen when I do a massive clothing shopping excursion. I haven't bought new clothes, except for a shirt or pair of pants here and there, for a long time. My thought on the clothing was to go for a little nicer, dressier look. I just have to go and do this, as I've been thinking about doing this since about March. The haircut thing has actually been for awhile, but have only recently thought more about it in recent months. I was thinking of going with the Weaver or Garvey look. Ok, not really. I will probably still keep it kind of longish. Not super long. I feel comfortable when it's longer. But then again, I'm horrible with going in and getting it cut as regular as some people. That is how it got long in the first place.

All right, I've droned on long enough. Nothing like killing time by blogging. Fun times!

Until another time.