Buzzetta

Nothing like waking up late but then you’re not late because it’s 2022 and you realize that the Long Island railroad is returning to a pre-March 2020 schedule. 
 

And… you basically have the train to yourself because no one else really knows that yet.

So just to repost something similar here from the goals 2022 thread so I can find it later on.  

I wound up selling off eight 25 gallon rubbermaid containers of stuff.  That's 200 gallons.  There were containers that fit under beds that I got rid of.  I seriously reduced the amount of plastic crack.  I have been planning this since the beginning of 2020.  For example, at that point I had over 500 GI Joe figures.  At this point I have less than 30.   I seriously cut into the Lego.  I was able to get rid of three short boxes of comics. I went for things that take up space and not so much value.  I cleared out cabinets, drawers and bookshelves.  I was able to get rid of a couple of bookshelves.  The idea was to severely reduce the footprint of 'stuff' in this house.  

Ever since the pandemic started and I was working from home I realized that the house was just a place to sleep, entertain, and store my stuff and that had to change.   So it was time to make it a home. 

Now, I have been selling stuff to buy more stuff since I was a teenager.  As I mentioned, I remember selling death of Superman issues to my teachers.  It's been a long time coming but after staying the course,  I am going to take a break this year.   I even discontinued my CGC membership, mostly because of quality control issues, but to stay away from that routine as well.

I might sell a few things locally that were too big to ship.  For example, I still have not committed myself to selling the giant Star Wars Sail Barge but if I do that is going to be sold locally.   Also the more I sold the more I discovered I had packed away in the storage room.  Shortly before Christmas I found all the Brio wooden railway toys from the 80's that my brother and I had.  That's too heavy to ship and has to go locally. 

The real thing is, and it is something that I have mentioned privately to a few people here, I have most everything I could ever reasonably get.  So at where is the line between buying what I want versus chasing a never ending list of things I do not have? 

So my want list? 

• Superman 24
• 50's / 60's Sci Fi page of Art, (Strange Adventures or something like that)
• War Cover
• Upgrade an ASM from my run.
• Sell more stuff locally.
• This year's Lego modular house.  I will pick it up at one point as it was released on Saturday. 

We shall see... 

However it is going to be weird because aside from selling more, I do not plan on replacing it all. I retire in less than nine years if I want to and it does weigh on me as to what to with all of this stuff.  I am going to stay away from certain things as to not be lured into filling in all of the gaps that have opened.   I did not bother with tonight's Heritage auctions and I may loosely follow Comiclink and Comic Connect just to knock one or two of my actual collecting goals off my list and try and stay away from opportunistic purchases. 

Let's clear out more. 

He never answered my interview questions. 

@Satanic Mechanic

I am going to see if I can land an exclusive with Stu under his current screen name.   

Let's also see if he can treat these questions seriously.  If a serious answer cannot be provided please put, "Decline to publicly answer this or something."

1 - This latest name definitely shows some inspiration and thought.  What is your process in creating new shill accounts?  What goes into a name? 

2 - The danger of running a cycle of shill accounts is that there are obvious limitations and the threat of someone turning the switch off is ever present.  For instance, have you ever wandered into the for sale areas and wanted to purchase something but realized that it would be near impossible to complete a deal?  What are limitations or things you have missed out on by cycling through shills over the years? 

3 - What name did you use that you are kind of remorseful to have taken and burned?  

4 - From your perception, what led to the banishment to begin with? 

5 - What is something about Stu that you wish everyone knew but they have not gotten a chance to know.

Found myself driving beside two former time machines today.

In a zoom meeting for the next couple of hours... 

They gave us a link to a Tiny URL

Now I have this stuck in my head... 

Looking back, one of my favorite parts of NYCC was the guy dressed like, "Blade" that had a hidden speaker somewhere on his costume.

He would walk the aisles in a menacing fashion while, "Wu Tang" was playing from outta nowhere like he had his own entrance music.  It was pretty cool. 

I forget if @jaybuck43 was with me or @PeteFromPetesBasement when we saw that. 

On 11/1/2021 at 8:05 PM, Brandon Shepherd said:

I see Boba’s scars healed up. Maybe the spider droid had something to do with that. 

Excellent pickup!  I did not notice that. 

Also... 

Surprisingly this song still kind of holds up. 

Meanwhile... new Fonki Cheff hip hop DJ session dropped... 

My hometown is always in the news ... it's ridiculous  

Gather round kids... It's storytime with Uncle Buzzetta Bay Baaaaaaay !

On 10/29/2021 at 10:27 PM, kav said:

He was flirting with me as batgirlwholaughs.  Told me it was him later.  Reminded me of friend at work who sent me an anonymous work email saying they had a crsuh on me and to post a note in the breakroom.
******* weird.
That dude later got drunk and puked in my kitchen, banged his best friend's Gf in my bathroom, and started a screaming match with her outside at 3 AM.  Next day at work told him never talk to me agan.

On 10/29/2021 at 10:29 PM, Comics4All said:

Sounds like a normal Tuesday night in Florida! 

@onlyweaknesskryptonite

On 10/29/2021 at 10:40 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

That's just a good warm up. 

1. The police were not involved.  

2. No mention of drugs.  in Florida there are almost always drugs..

3. He banged his BF's Girlfriend not his Girlfriend's Mom.. So again probably not Florida.. 

4. Usually there is also VOP and other charges pending... 

Time for a good one... so this was like twenty years ago.

There was this guy in town who owned six homes on one block and would rent most of them out but then use one as a party house.  The owner of these six homes was later charged with many drug related crimes and got himself in a jam when after being abusive to his wife, a friend of mine, he later threatened the kids.  She called the Nassau County PD and they found an over abundance of firearms in the home behind a wall, somehow all registered, and that he had been lending his vehicles out to drug dealers.  

So in one of the homes there was a party.  One of the guys decided to engage in, ahem, relations with his girlfriend but asked his best friend to join them once they started doing whatever drugs they were doing.  The one guy who initiated it wakes up from his drug haze and thought his best friend was taking advantage of his girlfriend.  He pulls a gun and shoots the guy.  Then the dog.  Why? Dunno.

The police found him walking down the street in his underwear. 

So what happens?  He wants to trade off some knowledge for some goodwill from the DA.  He then in turn lets them know about a dead body that had been buried in the woods.   It turns out that his girlfriend's mother poisoned her own boyfriend, and asked the daughter and this guy, the daughter's boyfriend to help get rid of the body. 

What is the moral of the story?
Remember that there are a lot of New Yorkers that eventually retire or move to Florida.

Wait until we are all down there. 

Test

On 9/2/2021 at 1:11 AM, MattTheDuck said:

Honestly, I don't see how this journal can possibly be improved upon with further posts.

We can find out the next time I stop by in Brooklyn. 

@PeteFromPetesBasement I would say that I am humbled by this public adulation but to be honest it is warranted. 

Thank you my Shrimp Parm sandwich today. 

For anyone that wants a laugh

I was using OpenTable to find a place tonight... 

It's amusing when you are supposed to go out to dinner in Long Beach, Long Island but accidentally plan to go to dinner in Long Beach, California thanks to a mixup when doing the search for a new place.  That mixup because you kind of left finding a place until about a half hour before going out because a certain person whose name rhymes with "Muh Settah" was beeeee esssssssing on a comic book message board all day.  . (Going to repost this in my journal in case this thread ever gets yanked.)

Forget the nonsense of the k-pop dj's... 

Bring this guy in from Spain to DJ NYCC