These aren't the troops your Vader told you about.

At the moment I am ranked 501 in the registry. Shortly I will break through the 500 barrier. I think I started around 748 when I first joined. Breaking through 700 felt pretty good. Breaking through 600 felt even better. Now I am on the threshold of breaking through 500. I have all the registry numbers of the books I bought in the past few months but I am waiting not only to have them in hand but once I do break through I don't want to go back above 500.

I also want to do my best in not getting more than one book a month through online sources and I already have a bid on a book for a couple hundred dollars. I have two days left and am prepared to lose. It isn't a defeatist attitude as much as it is a money issue. Besides I do believe another one will come along and I am patient. This same book sold at a record low the same time last year and if I get it even lower, so be it.

The holidays are now officially over and whatever extra money I thought I would make up in tips never fully materialized. Now the challenge begins. I hope that as I work on my sets that this will keep me busy enough to pretend I don't need that new book after all, especially since I have a few more New Mutants being graded and they don't count in my one book a month plans.

Anyway, I just got done work and since last year I winded up having the first and last journal of the year I decided why should this one be any different? Happy New Years!

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb

Ps. I am going to try to add a picture to every journal. This book is not mine, but a really good memory.

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