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Free Comic Book Day Haul

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Free Comic Book Day Haul
Photo-A-Day #1487

Andrew, a fellow comic book geek, wanted to know what my haul was like on Free Comic Book Day. I ended up with 10 books. I’m not sure how it is at your comic book store but mine limits you to 5 books per person. I actually think that is a good thing so that there are plenty of free comic books for everyone who wants them. I got 10 because I went to my local store as well as to a Newbury Comcs.

So the books I ended up getting included a Keenspot Spotlight (from 2004? I didn’t notice till I got home), Transformers, G.I.Joe, The Avengers, The New Mutants Saga, Cyber Force, Hunter Killer, Cars, Wolverine Saga ,Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Savage Dragon and Ronin Hood of the Samurai. I also decided that I’d pick up the 1st compilation of Y The Last Man. You might recognize the creator of that book, it is Brian K. Vaughan who is now working on LOST. I hope that Y is a decent read. Has anyone read it?

BTW the T-Shirt is from IZEA by way of fellow IZEA Insider Heather in Beautiful British Columbia.

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Some New Tech

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Some New Tech
Photo-A-Day #1399

No, I haven’t gone crazy spending some stimulus package. Am I the only one sick of seeing those scam ads on Facebook? No, I watched OfficeDepot as the price fell on the Wacom Bamboo Tablet and the 4 port USB hub. The Samsung camera was a giveaway from a generous sponsor at IZEAFest 2008. And generous Swag is reason #9 for going to IZEAFest 2009. The 1 TB FreeAgent XTreme external hard drive from Seagate. I won that from a contest on The Dirty Shirt. Today I finally put these items to use.

I hooked up the hard drive and set it to backup the video and photo folders of our other external hard drive. I also made sure that that particular drive was up to date with my travel external hard drive. And if that is not anal enough I have another external hard drive of just Eva photos. The 1 TB FreeAgent XTreme will go into our fireproof lockbox. I will also find another safe place for the Eva hard drive and do my backups once each month. So now I have to set up a reminder message to myself for once a month backups.

Speaking of getting things done, today I finally picked up my glasses, the ones that were $200 more than the Zenni Optical ones that I am wearing right now. The company called me wondering why I hadn’t picked up the glasses in 4 months. Oops.

So I grabbed them, then stopped over at my Gym to cancel my membership. Gyms are such scams. I know that I paid 1st and last months fees but they said I have to bring my original paperwork back to confirm that. Really, they didn’t have that on file somewhere? I find that hard to beleive so tomorrow I bring them my paperwork.

Oh and I also got my car inspected. My plan to have it inspected at least one day into the new month after the last one expired is working. I figure if I do it for 12 months I get one year free. That is probably not what is happening but I like to think it is.

And I love On Demand by Comcast because they had Wolverine and the X-Men was on Nickelodeon for free. I also found Marvel on Twitter. I love that they are using Twitter. I’m going to find some of the other media sources that I love as well. Hey great, news IDW publishing is on twitter too! They are the people who do the Angel, Transformers and G.I. Joe comic books.