Ups said it would be there Tuesday and it was.

The day CGC received my books from UPS they marked it as such. With all the negative publicity about them I take this as a good sign. Today, the very next day, my books were marked received. All 20 were listed out. IS CGC caught up or will they just sit there for the next two months. I plan to keep tabs. I have one invoice marked Shipped/Safe but I know it wasn't shipped yet since I didn't get the tracking number yet nor is the second invoice marked that way as well. I expect it to leave Florida by the end of the week.

I returned the credit card I used to my parents faring I would hurry up and send in another 20. I can wait. Sure the next time I send some books in I will have to pay that extra $5 handling fee but it is only money. If I didn't spend it on comic books I might spend it on...ummm...food. The problem is I am starting to look at some of my newer raw books and thinking about sending them in, like the New Mutants Volume three. Mostly they will be 9.6's but I can live with that. It would be cheaper than trying to get them all in a 9.8.

As far as grading goes as well, let's face it there are much cheaper ways to go about protecting your books. Mylar is one of them. Ask yourself why are you grading these books? Everyone has an interesting point in these recent journals, except for maybe Bob Loblaw...ok definitely Bob Loblaw. PjBeckstrom will be missed. DuckDuckMike makes some good points in the idiocy of Bob who proves the point of why I like the Journals too; I have enough of them written. Lee K is someone who I can count on to show me something new from time to time.

So I will see if CGC has gotten caught up, this being their slower time, at least until those tax returns come in. I for one am working Christmas day just to get caught up and if I do really good, maybe more books. I don't like the $5 fee, I don't but I do understand it. There I go jumping around again in my thoughts.

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb