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Post by Mormel on May 20, 2016 23:02:55 GMT -5
The dial for my cars air conditioning broke off. It's now stuck on full blast. I can't decide if I'm annoyed or amused. Ahh, duper, but that is punishment for not giving proper respect to the Norse god of thunder, believing that a certain Kryptonian charlatan could best him in combat. Now the Norns are frowning upon you. >
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Post by dupersuper on May 21, 2016 0:32:44 GMT -5
The dial for my cars air conditioning broke off. It's now stuck on full blast. I can't decide if I'm annoyed or amused. Ahh, duper, but that is punishment for not giving proper respect to the Norse god of thunder, believing that a certain Kryptonian charlatan could best him in combat. Now the Norns are frowning upon you. > I love Thor!!
I just love Superman more...
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Post by Mormel on May 21, 2016 13:19:32 GMT -5
I just saw X-men Apocalypse this afternoon. I quite enjoyed it!
Sure, there's a lot to nitpick about it if you're a fan of the source material, but in that respect it's no different from the other X-men films. Scott, Jean, and Kurt are pretty cool in it. Jubilee is unfortunately not a main character.
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Post by The Captain on May 21, 2016 15:24:14 GMT -5
Both of my daughters have been participating in an after-school running program that our district does in conjunction with a neighboring district. It's to encourage kids to exercise (never a bad thing) and develop an interest in running, and this is my girls' second year doing it. Every Monday afternoon they practice, and the program culminates with a two-mile race/run on the next-to-last Saturday of May.
My younger daughter (2nd-grader), who is not what anyone would describe as athletic, finished the course in under 25 minutes. It doesn't seem like much, but she's got short legs and doesn't have any level of intensity for competition, so when I saw her come off the road portion of the course into the stadium with her fists clenched and her teeth gritted, I was just amazed at how hard she was working and pushing herself to get to the finish line. Her stated goal was "just to finish", as she had barely made it to the end last year and it took her almost 32 minutes to do so, so she really rocked it out this morning.
My older daughter (4th-grader) is fairly athletic, as she has been swimming competitively for the past year, and she is uber-competitive. She's very tall (only 10 and 1/2, and just a hair under 5'), thin, and has long legs; we call her our "baby giraffe." She finished the course in less than 16:30, and wound up being the 2nd overall female finisher from our district (the organizers divided the awards by district and gender first, then additionally by school and grade level, so she was also the first female for her elementary school and first female for her grade level within the district, as the girl who finished ahead of her was a fifth-grader from another school). Seeing her sprint into the stadium, head high and a big smile on her face as she saw the clock at the finish line, brought an incredible amount of joy to my heart, as she never seemed to enjoy team sports but has found her way in individual sports where she is really just competing against herself and her previous best time.
So incredibly proud of both of my girls for practicing hard all season, giving it their all this morning, and having fun while doing it.
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Post by shaxper on May 21, 2016 22:44:06 GMT -5
Office is finally (mostly) back to normal a full day and a half after beginning the collection weeding and purge. Got lots of extra space to play with now that the clean-up is done, but, for now, I'm just damn exhausted from carrying filled long boxes from the attic down to the basement.
Final tally: approximately 750 books purged from my collection. Five short boxes removed entirely, and a lot of space in my boxes opened up. It's nice to see my collection receding for once instead of slowly expanding out to devour the entire room.
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Post by Confessor on May 22, 2016 5:25:40 GMT -5
Office is finally (mostly) back to normal a full day and a half after beginning the collection weeding and purge. Got lots of extra space to play with now that the clean-up is done, but, for now, I'm just damn exhausted from carrying filled long boxes from the attic down to the basement. Final tally: approximately 750 books purged from my collection. Five short boxes removed entirely, and a lot of space in my boxes opened up. It's nice to see my collection receding for once instead of slowly expanding out to devour the entire room. Inspired almost entirely by your previous post about sorting out some of your comics to go into storage, my girlfriend and I have been looking at storage solutions in our home town. I have maybe 4 or 5 long boxes that I would like to get out of the house, without throwing them away (I'll still be keeping 15 or so long boxes here though). Plus, we have some other clutter that we'd like to put into storage -- everything from Christmas decorations and guitars to clothes and old cassette tapes. I looked on Google and it turns out that there are storage units about a 10 minute walk from my house. I gave 'em a call this morning and it looks like we're gonna go ahead and rent a 10" x 10" unit. So, thanks for giving me the idea.
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Post by shaxper on May 22, 2016 8:47:33 GMT -5
Office is finally (mostly) back to normal a full day and a half after beginning the collection weeding and purge. Got lots of extra space to play with now that the clean-up is done, but, for now, I'm just damn exhausted from carrying filled long boxes from the attic down to the basement. Final tally: approximately 750 books purged from my collection. Five short boxes removed entirely, and a lot of space in my boxes opened up. It's nice to see my collection receding for once instead of slowly expanding out to devour the entire room. Inspired almost entirely by your previous post about sorting out some of your comics to go into storage, my girlfriend and I have been looking at storage solutions in our home town. I have maybe 4 or 5 long boxes that I would like to get out of the house, without throwing them away (I'll still be keeping 15 or so long boxes here though). Plus, we have some other clutter that we'd like to put into storage -- everything from Christmas decorations and guitars to clothes and old cassette tapes. I looked on Google and it turns out that there are storage units about a 10 minute walk from my house. I gave 'em a call this morning and it looks like we're gonna go ahead and rent a 10" x 10" unit. So, thanks for giving me the idea. Awesome! Glad I could help. 15 boxes? Man, I wish I had your discipline.
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Post by Confessor on May 23, 2016 9:44:58 GMT -5
Inspired almost entirely by your previous post about sorting out some of your comics to go into storage, my girlfriend and I have been looking at storage solutions in our home town. I have maybe 4 or 5 long boxes that I would like to get out of the house, without throwing them away (I'll still be keeping 15 or so long boxes here though). Plus, we have some other clutter that we'd like to put into storage -- everything from Christmas decorations and guitars to clothes and old cassette tapes. I looked on Google and it turns out that there are storage units about a 10 minute walk from my house. I gave 'em a call this morning and it looks like we're gonna go ahead and rent a 10" x 10" unit. So, thanks for giving me the idea. Awesome! Glad I could help. 15 boxes? Man, I wish I had your discipline. Ha! Well, I don't have that big of a collection compared to a lot of you guys in this forum. I actually sold about 500 comics or so on eBay semi-recently to try and reduce my collection. The 15 odd long boxes that I'll be keeping in my house are issues that I'm likely to read again. Also, I live in a small, 200-year-old Georgian cottage, so space is not exactly abundant...hence the decision to rent some storage space. You know, it's funny, but when guests come round our house they are always amazed by the size of my comic collection and look at me as if I'm some kind of weird, nerd hoarder. That always makes me chuckle because I think to myself, "it's really not that large at all for a comic book fan...most serious collectors have a comic stash that would dwarf mine!
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Post by shaxper on May 23, 2016 9:48:19 GMT -5
You know, it's funny, but when guests come round our house they are always amazed by the size of my comic collection and look at me as if I'm some kind of weird, nerd hoarder. That always makes me chuckle because I think to myself, "it's really not that large at all for a comic book fan...most serious collectors have a comic stash that would dwarf mine! So true. If I didn't weed my collection every few years, I'd be well over 10,000 books by this point. And, by the way, the 70 short boxes I still have are all books I plan to read again...sometime...somehow
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Post by impulse on May 23, 2016 11:31:22 GMT -5
Yeah, I've been transitioning toward bookshelf editions of things I plan to reread as opposed to single issues, so that's helped me not rebuild my collection a lot after selling so many. Very few of my books are sentimental or of collector value, so I have little problem selling most of them. I have some of my nicer ones framed and on display, but 99% of my books are taking up storage and never looked at. Once we get the china hutch we just bought fixed up and put the china on it, that will free up a bookshelf so i can hopefully actually put those TPBs out on display to read again and take some of the books out of perpetual storage.
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Post by shaxper on May 23, 2016 11:40:35 GMT -5
Yeah, I've been transitioning toward bookshelf editions of things I plan to reread as opposed to single issues, so that's helped me not rebuild my collection a lot after selling so many. Very few of my books are sentimental or of collector value, so I have little problem selling most of them. I have some of my nicer ones framed and on display, but 99% of my books are taking up storage and never looked at. Once we get the china hutch we just bought fixed up and put the china on it, that will free up a bookshelf so i can hopefully actually put those TPBs out on display to read again and take some of the books out of perpetual storage. I've done the math and figured that I conserve more space by owning floppies as opposed to tpb editions. Vertical short boxes are more space efficient than horizontal bookshelves. I'll buy tpbs if the edition is particularly handsome, the original floppies are particularly hard to come by, or the storyline is convoluted and difficult to follow in the original floppy format (ex, the early Thanos stories), but I try to avoid them otherwise.
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Post by impulse on May 23, 2016 13:48:29 GMT -5
I hear you. I find TPBs easier to work with, so I prefer them for casual reading, but for sheer capacity sake i can see your point.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 23, 2016 15:34:08 GMT -5
Very few of my books are sentimental or of collector value, so I have little problem selling most of them. I'm in the opposite situation - almost all of my comics have sentimental value, and a fair amount have collector value, so I'm not selling anything. If & when I get them into boxes actually designed for comics, I'll be able to tell you how many, but it's actually not that large a collection. Most of them are in storage; we started remodeling our house four years ago and have been renting 3 10x10 and one 5x10 spaces ever since. I'll feel better when I get them back home.
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Post by hondobrode on May 23, 2016 19:52:27 GMT -5
Mine are home but in the attic that's jam packed and inaccessible, but it's saving us $ 200/mo for the 10' x 30' we had rented (not all comics BTW)
When I started with digital comics a few years back I purposely avoided things I already had in paper, but found myself getting digital so my kids could read them too.
Not sure if I'll sell of the dupes or not. Probably, cause I too need the room.
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Post by berkley on May 23, 2016 20:23:09 GMT -5
Yeah, I've been transitioning toward bookshelf editions of things I plan to reread as opposed to single issues, so that's helped me not rebuild my collection a lot after selling so many. Very few of my books are sentimental or of collector value, so I have little problem selling most of them. I have some of my nicer ones framed and on display, but 99% of my books are taking up storage and never looked at. Once we get the china hutch we just bought fixed up and put the china on it, that will free up a bookshelf so i can hopefully actually put those TPBs out on display to read again and take some of the books out of perpetual storage. I've done the math and figured that I conserve more space by owning floppies as opposed to tpb editions. Vertical short boxes are more space efficient than horizontal bookshelves. I'll buy tpbs if the edition is particularly handsome, the original floppies are particularly hard to come by, or the storyline is convoluted and difficult to follow in the original floppy format (ex, the early Thanos stories), but I try to avoid them otherwise. Same here as far as originals vs TPBs is concerned. But what are these short, vertical boxes - can you post a picture? I should start looking for something to put mine in - they're just stacked on bookshelves right now.
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