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You and me both brudder Icc! Though my westerns are lower on my shopping list. At the moment have a few Jughead, Charlton War, and DC Tarzan issues in my want box with MyComicshop.com for my next buy😁 hoping to celebrate with that purchase sooner than later!

(Dramatic voice): We welcomed them to our shores, thinking they would be a great addition to the diversity found in our land... and I must give them that: they look very good, and at first glance their coming to one's neighbourhood appears to be a blessing. But very quickly you notice they reproduce like mad and that everywhere you look there's one of them. Before you know it, you're surrounded, outnumbered and your home will never be the same. (/Drama)

I'm talking about the glossy buckthorn. I've never seen a tree that prolific, or that amazingly competitive. Having just moved to a house in the countryside, I keep uprooting and cutting the damn thing as is recommended by the government... but there are hundreds of new shoots everywhere around the house. My maples and cherry trees are being smothered, and if nature is left to run its course, this European invader will have outcompeted everything in a matter of a few years. It was imported as a landscaping plant, and it's true that it looks gorgeous (it even has lovely berries sure to attract birds), but it's like living in Invasion of the body snatchers! Our native trees are being replaced by aliens!

I finally understand what the southerners mean when they talk about kudzu.

We have Scottish broom here, people get rounded up to cut it and burn it to help the rarer Garry oaks.

Haven't been able to type as much lately, not sure when that's getting better.

So I had a fairly rough day on Thursday. A former assistant manager recently returned to become an item pricer to slowly work her way back up. She doesn't do the job very well and just empties a gaylord as fast as she can into a cart for me and other floor associates to sift through. She's been doing this with both wares and shoes and it's been hell. I was specifically told by a key carrier that I respect that we cannot stack shoes ontop of one another because it's a safety hazard and if such a situation arises where we run out of room for shoes, we need to tell a pricer immediately so that they can pull. Well I told this former co-worker about it and she gave me polite lip service about how "she's the only pricer" and that "she leaves at 3:30 and couldn't possibly do it" and this was at 1 O'clock in the afternoon.

Well, she told the manager, the manager told another key carrier, and the key carrier told me that I had to pull the shoes. I would not have minded doing it under other circumstances, but I shortly was going to be the only sales associate on the floor and I had numerous other things that I had to do like four racks of clothes and four carts. When I came back with my first load of shoes and began tossing them in the gaylord, the pricer chastised me for getting rid of shoes that could have sold even though we had no room for them. And when I was a little bit short with her because I was frustrated and overwhelmed she asked me if we needed to step outside and talk about this.

Luckily an assistant manager, another key carrier, and a donor greeter who I helped train one day on the sales floor pitched in to help. I was incredibly grateful that they did because I would not have known what to do otherwise.

And in regards to the pricer, I hold no ill will because I consider her a good person just with very questionable motivations

No, it's actually one of the few things that I'm good at and I love the people I work with and helping people. I just had a really bad day that day

My daughter-in-law got laid off Friday from Marriott as their Event / Catering Manager from a previously well performing hotel. Thankfully the family is doing fine and sounds like they'll be ok. I was hoping she'd be spared but no Big 10 football is what killed that option.

I always have said that I plan for my collection to be burned when I die. This guy did it while alive.