One way or the other... you pay

I took the first week off in April for a nice cruise around the Caribbean. I have this journal-ed but not edited. This process has taken me a lot longer than I thought especially now my hours have increased. I originally waited tables and ran the register for a total of 55 hours a week. During the slow times I had the ability to write and edit. Soon after I came back I was asked/needed to be the manager for a small while. I have done this before for a day a week, not the six I am currently working. My hours have increased to 140 plus for two weeks.

Every Friday I work six hours as a server and the other sixty four I work as a manager. I am still waiting for that first management paycheck. The thing is the heft work hours have given me no time to write at all, this journal being my first exception. I will get back to my vacation but I wanted to mention two people in this journal. The first one was totally unexpected. This person read my journals on a constant basis and inquired what I needed to fill my New Mutants collection. He sent me two of the books as a gift to try to get graded by CGC. I hope to get a 9.8.

There is no guarantee that this will happen but not only did he send me those books, he sent more, a lot more. Ronnylama sent me a slew of books he no longer wanted. These were books he upgraded in his collection (I believe) and he wanted these to have a better home. He wrote about this in his own Journal

http://comics.www.collectors-society.com/JournalDetail.aspx?JournalEntryID=11085

I have no idea how to thank him. The best I was able to do so far was give some comic books to a coworker whose little brother detests reading. I passed along a whole bunch of Detective Comics I will never read but acquired through a mass purchase. The next day I was told he wants more. This is one of the reasons to why I love this hobby.

The other person who I met (who wished to remain anonymous) wanted to talk about pressing. It was I who started searching for people about this controversial topic. I have written a few articles about this and even recently just got back my Daredevil #7 and X-Men #10 signed by Stan Lee. They were both pressed through ComicstoAstonish.com (although not by them)and where I do believe the X-men increased a little bit. The Daredevil stayed the 5.5 I thought it was. I will be talking about this more after I stop working so much. I knew I had to stop writing while I work so hard that the only place I wanted my writing was to appear was here on the journals. I even stopped writing atComicbooked.com on a temporary basis. Please continue to visit them, and I hope to be back there soon.

Thanks for Reading.

Tnerb

I will write more on how I feel about the generosity of fellow collectors like RonnyLama and Lee K. These two both showed me what it means to enjoy this hobby so greatly.

Please excuse all editorial mistakes and typos.