New Comic Day

[newnumber6]

This week I just got one book:

Ultimate X-Men #88 (okay, but nothing special)

I considered, but in the end decided not to, get Avengers: The Initiative Annual #1. And of course I'm skipping Ultimates 3. Maybe I'll pick up the trade, but Loeb and Joe Mad isn't much of a draw to me, and if I wanted to see the Avengers including Wolverine and Spidey and fighting Symbiotes, well, I'd be reading New Avengers.

Full reviews as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.

Alas, did not find $20 again today. Found a dime, but that really doesn't count. Also found a library card, and I suppose theoretically I could have used the card to take out more than $20 worth of books and never return them, but that would be wrong, so I didn't, so I left the card on the sidewalk figuring it was the person's best chance to find it.

It was a tiny bit cold today. Something like -17 with wind chill, so not too bad all in all, but with the 3 or so hours of walking I do on Wednesdays to swing by the comic/bookstores it kind of adds up. I think I might need to get new gloves though, mine have a few holes in it and after the first hour of walking I had to put my book away and walk the rest without reading because my hands were getting a bit too cold.

Now I must go eat, I have some leftover roast with greek potatoes and rice from when I visited my grandmother on Sunday, and my stomach is growling for it.

Comments

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Actually, the person's best chance of getting their library card back would involve returning it to the library. Or, failing that, drop it in a mailbox and let USPS do the legwork.

(I, personally, would not bother with any of these suggestions, I just wanted to point out that if your aim really was to get the card back to its owner, there are more effective actions.)

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm Canadian, so if the USPS really does return Canadian library cards to citizens when mailed in Canada, they're really going above and beyond... and possibly spying on our mail way too much for comfort. But odds are they're doing that anyway. ;)

Anyway, I don't know if Canada would do that, but even assuming so, I don't know offhand where a library is, so leaving the card where I found it (in somewhat plain view on a sidewalk where the owner probably walks on a regular basis) was, notwithstanding options I don't know about like the mailbox one, the best chance of them getting it back, because I know myself. If I took it with me whether to attempt to track them down personally and return it or to find and give it to a library, what would happen is that I would get home and every once in a while I would happen to see it or something and recall, "I really should get started on trying to get that to its owner", followed quickly by, "I can't right now, though, so I'll handle it a bit later."

Hell right now I'm "handling something a bit later" and procrastinating by responding to this comment instead of doing the something, and that something's for me, not a stranger.

Though if I knew the Canadian postal service would return it once dropped in a mailbox, I probably would have gone that route, since those are all over.