The Journey of a Zillion Comics...

Gainesville

My first day of real work with the comics collection. I worked over 6 hours, and handled around 300 comics, entering them into the existing spreadsheet list. There are probably about that many again, and all the stuff we got from Michigan State last May will be inventoried. Most of the sorting had already been done, so this was mainly data entry. The spreadsheet was in much better shape (and twice as long) as the one they've made available online for the past few years. Still, it needs work, and I've already started to rationalize the copy I made for myself.

I'll probably go in again on Friday, and try to finish up this data entry phase. It was great fun today! I learned a lot about what the collection is like, and refined my ideas about what's needed to get it under proper control.

But I am truly tired now-- sitting at a computer in a less than optimal chair for that long is hard on the spoiled retiree.

My Cuisinart bowl is cracked, and now leaks so bad I can't use it for anything liquid. Bill found a place to order just that, and not the top-- half as much. It arrived today, and I was pleased I'd be able to take on a Cream of Artichoke Soup I had planned. Alas! The new bowl refuses to mate with the old top! Just a tiny difference in the design. Balderdash! Now we have to order a new top too, which brings the cost up to half what it would be to just get a new one. And the bowl just BARELY wants to fit on the base...

Anyway, no soup for you! (us) I had another soup recipe in the wings, but then discovered I had only one can of clams, and it wanted two! @#$%$ Ended up emptying the fridge of this week's leftovers and making a big tossed salad. I don't do that often, because Bill is not especially enamored of Soares-style salads, but I had a lot of stuff that needed using-- some tomatoes, the beautiful avocados, some sliced raw zucchinis, sliced scallions from last night's salmon... It was pretty wonderful.

Mom, there is a way to tell the size of a book on Amazon: just scroll down to the section called "Product Details," and there you will find "Product dimensions."

Nice description of the Christmas Eve ceremony in the cemetery. Fascinating. That's the kind of thing you don't learn about unless you live there.

Much as I enjoyed today, I'm so glad I don't have to get up early and do it again tomorrow. Once or twice a week is the most I can manage at this point.