chip's spynotebook

Let's just say that there are potentially 10,000 comics about 8 feet away from me. Let's also do the math and figure that my house is (give-or-take) 874 square feet. Let's cross-reference along the temporal axis and note that there are about 42 days until the wedding. So, let's say I need to sort through 250 comics a day on average and decide what to keep and what to sell/donate/disown because that 874 square feet ain't getting any bigger anytime soon.

Then add the fact that Scrappy and I also own enough books to start our own book-mobile.

Oh. That's not a bad idea. Anybody have an old RV they want to donate to the cause? I could deck it out in comics and alternate history novels and sell my wares door to door.

Last night, the Spynotebook Book Club (me, Scrappy, Jocelyn, Tera) had a "progressive meeting" that spanned Your Pie, Buffalo's, and then Border's for the midnight release of Breaking Dawn.

It was fun to see MJ and Allison at Border's. If you had told me back in the day that I would be 37 years old and still be having conversations about Watchmen, Doctor Who, and vampires, well, I probably totally would have believed you. Never mind.

(I might not have believed that it would have been with actual live women and not someone from a BBS or something.)

I have promised Allison that she and Yvonne can come over and play croquet in the backyard soon.

Today, we are meeting Sheni at the Grit and then who knows.

Off to sort into DC, Marvel, and other piles. If anyone needs any issues to fill out their "New Universe" collection, I just found that box.

In order to celebrate 9 years of blogging, here are my most recent tweets so you can get an idea of what has been going on in my life the past few months.

If you want to relive my last nine years, check out the archives!

As we countdown to 10 years of our blogs, I actually do resolve to, you know, blog more.

shawn&chandra_wedding - 03, originally uploaded by Chip.

Congrats to the newlyweds!

I'm washing clothes and getting ready to go to the beach on Saturday morning. I have been meaning to blog forever and ever, but honestly, twitter is so much easier. If you aren't following me and you read this blog, you should probably start following me there. At some point, I plan to figure out a way to archive a day's worth of my online comings and goings and post it here for the future generations. Maybe I can figure that out while I'm at the beach.

So, here is a brief catch up on my life.

Wedding still on for September. Honeymoon in Las Vegas to follow.

I started a new job at UGA on June 9 and so far I like it but I have had a tremendous amount of trouble with UGA Human Resources.

Walking to work in the morning rocks. Walking home in the afternoon sucks.

Scrappy and I canceled cable and are living off the internet. I think I am about to cancel our Netflix also. We just are such in the habit of having things streamed or downloaded that it is almost not worth the effort to get things through the mail. The tipping point was when I read that Netflix was getting rid of their option to split one account into different profiles. That is how we have handled ours for a while.

Hmmm. What else?

Can't think of anything for now.

Oh yeah, I have been reading Scott Pilgrim. It is awesome and you should read it also.

I know. I never blog any more.

New Buffy today! Hannah, have you found a comic shop in Lexington yet? You should.

No new Doctor Who means I will have to trick Scrappy into reading something else. I'll glue a picture of David Tennant on Detective Comics. She'll never know!

New comics come out on Thursday this week due to the long weekend.

I had a dream last night that Devlin told me to download comics instead of buying them. I am quite sure that won't happen anytime soon.

Here is the situation.

If I used Windows, I could put a hold on a digital audio file that when the last person was done listening to it, I would then have three days to listen to 13 hours of audio before it expired and then next person could listen to it.

Oh yeah, and I can't put it on my iPod!

For real?

I am a member of the "Friends of the Library" and all of that and go there at least every couple of weeks. I was psyched when I read the article in the paper yesterday about the new digital audio download service.

Now, I am just a little annoyed about the whole thing.

Lori, my sis, just had a baby girl named Charlotte Ann (Annie). Everyone is fine. Scrappy is ready to be Aunt Scrappy now. No pain meds. Damn.

So, we started off the week a little crazy by canceling cable.

This is not as crazy at it seems at first. We're keeping the internet (10MB through Charter) and plan on watching TV via the web, NetFlix, and various other methods. Plus, it saves us about $90/month that can be spent on other things like comic book spinner racks, roller skates, and weddings.

I also have spent the week trying to get my iPhoto library into some organized manner. Ever since I had to recover all my photos from a hard drive crash a few years ago, they have been all kerfluzzled. The are only mildy fluzzled now.

Friday night we went to DePalma's and then for coffee on College Square. There were "preachers" with signs about drunkards and fornicators standing on the little war memorial island in front of the Arch. Loud, annoying, etc. Some girls ran out of one of the bars and started to make out in front of them and they stopped preaching and packed up and left. Now, it was about 10:00 and they might have just been leaving anyway, but the girls were very proud of themselves and so were we.

On Saturday, Scrappy and I went to the auction at Barnett's News Stand. I was there to buy one of the comic book spinner racks as were friends of mine. I paid a little more than I wanted to but I am happy that I have it. It has Richie Rich, Archie, Spidey, and Supes on it so it is pretty cool.

I am trying out a new cross-posting app so this MIGHT show up on my old livejournal also. Who knows if anyone still is my friend on there.

What I Will Be Reading This Week: