The festival has finally ended, but it's gotten so big that there's still some merchants with packing up and leaving here on this Monday morning. It's basically a great big low-rent flea market that's filling more and more of the streets. I didn't find any good treasures this year, anything that made it worth the walking around on Saturday. Years ago somebody was selling comics and I got what my memory says is fine condition (but it may be the charity or memory) Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 for what was probably overpriced then, but would be a steal today. I was getting the reprints through the color paperbacks back then (about 7 issues a book) and they either skipped the annuals or hadn't gotten to reprinting it yet. And yes, I got it out of the bag and read it after getting it. And then there was my first cat. Someone had a box of free kittens on Main St about a year after we married, and after some discussion decided to get one. I wasn't sure which one to get, and after Kathy had picked one, at the last minute I decided on another. It was a few months before we decided to name him Ranma, after the anime because Ranma had a fear of cats, and a now-ex sister in law that told us that looking underneath the cat didn't necessarily determine the sex.
We got him in September 1994.
We lost him in July 2002.
I had hoped for at least 10 years with him and didn't get it. And although time has healed some wounds, it didn't heal me enough to continue on the subject.
I opened the Spider-Man UNO deck I got the other day, and apparently it was intended for the Chinese market, as the instructions were Chinese on one side, and a "Draw 2" card just had "+2" on it. I suspect the Disney/Pixar Cars deck (I know I sound like a shill for describing it that way, but that's only to communicate clearer to you, as I would imagine if I called it a Cars UNO you might not necessarily think of the movie.
Great, and now I'm sounding condenscending.)
The place I got it from had a bunch of cardboard boxes on the ground selling different things in it, such as household goods, etc. I wonder how many of them were intended for China and got "fell off the truck" to end up at festivals and flea markets? I'm glad I didn't get any shampoo or other personal products.
And I never got my comics Friday or Saturday. Will I get them on Tuesday? Stay tuned...
And XBox is doing some work on XBox Live to add their Mii rip-off icons make some changes to XBox Live. I assume that's why my XBox Live box on the right is blank. If not, then you know they're done with the upgrade.
My sore throat is downgraded to scratchy, but it's made it way to my nose. I'd say that on a scale of 1 to 10, I felt like a 6 on Saturday, a 7 on Sunday and an 8 today. Kathy has a cough we're trying to fight. We've got plenty of medicine to take, so hopefully we'll fell better soon.
I feel so bad I know that some of the people that got the country in this financial mess are planning to make out like bandits and the Orphan Works Bill looks like it's going to go through resulting in creative people getting more taken away from them, but the best I can do is pass the word and hope that helps.
And there was a couple of conversations I overheard that didn't sound good for the election results here. The news sounds better in other areas. I wish I could take more comfort in that. Maybe if I knew it was a majority opinion.