Good Things About Yesterday

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I got my debit card PIN problem fixed up at the bank. (Sadly, this is an issue that has to be fixed in person, one of the few banking issues that has to be fixed that way.)

I used some Christmas gift-money to buy a personal DVD copy of Black Widow.

There was reassurance that my local comics dealer is still operational, and was able to reassure the staff that I have not forgotten my obligations to them. More pointedly, that I anticipate starting to get caught up on my reading next weekend because payday timing.

The local custom-t-shirt printer can work with PNG files I bring for them, and that they can print on 3XL t-shirts.

The British mystery novels that inspired the CBC TV series Coroner are still in print as of two years ago, and available through local booksellers.

It may be possible for me to finally get a used Wacom Cintiq without breaking myself financially. More on this anon, I hope.

New battery for the cell-phone, finally. Been worrying about the battery I bought with it for a few weeks after four or five years. Didn't think the shop I bought the new battery from would have it in stock yet.

Comments

[thewayne]

We had some interesting news in Phoenix. We had a local comics chain, Atomic Comics, went bust over a decade ago. One of its stores was uninsured and someone drove a car through its front and wrecked it just before the economy went south. The entire chain folded between the costs to rebuild the store and the economy trashing.

Anyway, a friend of mine who came into a pretty large sum of money and opened a successful pizza/beer restaurant found some other backers and was able to get together with the founder of Atomic and reopen it! I hope it thrives, I don't know what the market is like for comic stores these days.

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I might have read about Atomic Comics. I've never been to Phoenix, but some of my old industry network connections and industry press sources would have noticed the original crash-into-the-storefront incident.