When I got there, naturally, the fax machine wasn’t working. I told the lady working there, “I should apologize, as the only reason it’s not working is that I needed to use it.”
Still, I bought the shredder, then headed to Super Target to pick up Batman: Beyond Season 3 on DVD.
While I was at it I bought Justice League Unlimited Season 2, and would have bought Season 1 if they’d had it there.
(I’ll have to pick it up somewhere else.)
Once I got home I set up the shredder and became a crazy shredding fool.
That thing is cool!
It even shreds CDs and DVDs.
Now I understand why they were so fond of shredding stuff at Enron.
After I finished ripping apart every spare scrap of junk mail, used paper, and coaster-fied CDs and DVDs I could find, I ate lunch and then got to work on the problem of faxing the check.
I scanned the check in, dropped it into a Word document, and plugged Munin into the phone line…only to discover that I don’t have any kind of fax software. After tracking some down and installing it I faxed it off. Hopefully I should get a call tomorrow telling me that my taxes are done, I’ll go in and pay for them, and within a short period I’ll have a lot more money at my disposal (the majority of which I’ll put into savings).
In looking to pick up a copy of Captain America #25, Scott tracked down a local comic shop that I was thinking about visiting today. Scott and I are both toying with the notion of getting back into regular comic buying, at least to support some of our favorite creators like Gail Simone, Ed Brubaker, and Bill Willingham (but only when he’s writing Fables and Fables-related stuff. Most of his more mainstream work is pretty weak.).
I decided not to go today as Wednesday is new comics day, so I figured I might as well just wait.
(By the way, in all the years that I was buying comics, I don’t think I ever actually noticed that new comics arrive on Wednesday. I’d noticed that Tuesday was the day for new music and movies, but never picked up on the comic thing. Of course, it didn’t really matter, as I had a “pull list” at my local store, so when I went in, the most recent stuff that I wanted was already set aside for me, so I didn’t have to go in on any particular day.)
Of course, getting back into buying comics on even a semi-regular basis means that I finally have to get around to organizing my existing collection.
It’s a daunting task, especially since that means re-bagging and re-boarding hundreds upon hundreds of comics, which will require a lot of time and money.
I’ve been meaning to do it for years and actually started on it a while back, but soon gave up on it, One of the main things I want to do is either create my own database or, more likely, use an existing comic book cataloguing program to create a definitive list of what I have and what condition each book is in.
Towards that end, I hauled all of my comics in from the outside storage area and now have them taking up space on my floor.
I also did some searching for comic database programs and found this program.
I’ve downloaded the trial and it’s pretty cool.
Basically, you enter in the title of the series, it connects to an online database and gives you a list of all of the issues, complete with, in most cases, cover scans, and full info on writers, artists, editors, etc. You simply check off the issues you have, and boom, what you have is added to your own database.
Here’s a screenshot of my test database:
The trial limits you to 100 comics, and I went with the ones that I knew that I have off the top of my head, in particular limited series that I know I have every issue.
I’m definitely thinking about paying for the full version, but on the other hand, I do have a birthday coming up.
Just something to think about.
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