New Comic Day + Other Foo

[newnumber6]

This week I got just one book:

New Mutants #11 (kind of a pointless fill in... decent, but I'd hoped it would be better).

It'll be the last comic I buy in the near future, because after this, New Mutants is being sequestered for the Second Coming crossover, and I'm not buying every 5th issue of a major storyline, nor am I picking up all the rest for completeness' sake. The only remaining option is to drop it during the Second Coming crossover. I've said it before, but I'll say it again. If Marvel isn't actually bringing back mutants, I just don't give a damn. And if this happens to be the storyline that DOES bring them back? Good for them. Maybe I'll pick it up after it's done. But you're not getting my money until you actually bring them back first.

Also, at a used bookstore I picked up Saturn's Children, by Charles Stross, and at a used gaming store I picked up Dead Rising. No, I haven't got my X-Box 360 yet, but it was only $10, and it's been hard to find in the mainstream stores, so I bought it in advance... that way when I do have my X-box I can be fighting zombies the first day I set it up. :) Looked like a pretty good used store too, can probably pick up a couple other older games for a pretty decent price. New games are still highly expensive, even used, but oh well. I think I may be getting the 360 itself within a matter of weeks.

Yesterday, (due to scheduling problems it was the only day that worked) we had our big Easter meal. It was pretty nice. Went to my grandmother's place, and we had Mashed potatoes, Rice, Salad, cooked vegetables, Roast Beef, Lamb, Gravy, Greek Potato Chips (feta, olive, and oregano), and, for desert, cheesecake. It was all really good, and nice to see family again of course.

Today, I got my yearly haircut. My head feels so much lighter. But I needed to shed my long locks in anticipation of summer. Unfortunately I had to wait around an hour and a half after work for the place I go to to be open, but oh well.

In other news, I apparently won a $60 photo scanner. It'll be delivered in 4-6 weeks.

Comments

[liabrown]

As an aside, since you like sci fi, do you ever read james_nicoll's blog? He lives in K-W and talks about sci fi a lot, and has some interesting people on his flist, including Charlie Stross.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

No, though I've heard of him, and probably read many of his posts back on Usenet. He's been in internet SF fandom for quite a while.

I don't know, I've thought about friending him but it sems odd since we've never directly interacted.

[liabrown]

It's up to you of course, but I decided to friend him because he's interesting and also lives in K-W, even though I'd never talked to him before in my life. He friended me back. There are other people who comment regularly on his posts that are clearly not actual friends -- they hold views that are pretty different from his own, and sometimes he squabbles with them.

[occamsnailfile.livejournal.com]

Clearly you have to take a photo of yourself and scan it. Also congrats on winning.

Dead Rising is a lot of fun. Enough so that when I got it, we didn't have an HD tv and I couldn't read the subtitles which are quite important, so I used a FAQ transcript and didn't really mind.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

I doubt taking a photo and scanning it will be very likely, since I don't even have a camera (and if I did, it would probably be digital, so there would be a redundant step if I did that. ;))

Looking up the problem you mentioned, it sounds like I'll be having the same problem with the text, since I have a normal TV. Kind of a stupid mistake to make (and I classify it as a mistake whether they do or not), but oh well, I guess I can use the FAQs like you did.