I used to grill fairly regularly, but I pretty much stopped two or three years ago. I might break it out once or twice a summer, but I'm much more into the crock pot these days, and have started using the Instant Pot as well.
I am about to have to do a major book & shelving overhaul too.
Basically, the storage will become a guest room - stuff currently in the storage room will go to the garage, my main comic book room gets shifted to the new guest room, and what was the comic book room gets turned into a family room.
I am not sure how much space I am losing for comics but I would guess around 15 to 20 percent.
If I can get it under control I will actually post up some pictures. We have library shelving covering the walls and cubbyhole shelving under the windows.
@CaptShazam_Jr you picked an interesting year to get married.
I've been married for 13 years now, if I had to work from home with my kids and wife I would insane. I was fortunate and could work in office last year.
@mwhitt80 we only have one “child” at home - my 19 year old step daughter. She is at work during the day as is my wife. The only think that causes chaos with my at home work is that we have four cats and one dog.
Have been seeing a number of lists rating best war movies with The Thin Red Line ranking insanely high. Saw it in the theater and was disappointed - amazing cast (and Caveziel and Leto). Trying to give it another go.
Mallick is definitely able to make a visually stunning movie but otherwise it’s just too much navel gazing. Painfully slow, characters only distinguishable by the actors portraying them.
For all star casts, I’ll take The Longest Day or A Bridge Too Far eight days a week.
I mentioned this over in the Current Marvel thread, but I have recently been using Comixology Unlimited to sample some series by reading the first three issues. Yesterday, I read a series called Vampblade and noticed that they referenced that one comic shop owner who founded the Pittsburgh Comic-Con & was later arrested for having killed his first wife years earlier.
Or, in other words, the guy responsible for one of the CGS guys (I think it was @Pants) winding up on Dateline NBC.
Yeah, long & short of it, the guy (Michael George, I think) would hold a poker tournament for charity at the Pittsburgh-Con. The picture Dateline ( & at least one informative murder-porn show on Investigation Discovery) used to illustrate this showed Pants as one of the players.
Then, whenever the thing would rerun, there would be a thread on the forums saying "Hey, I saw Pants on TV last night!"
My daughter asked if I had any comics she could read....
An hour later she has all but the top shelf filled with books she can read. I pulled out a chunk of my DC showcases, all ages books, moved the teenage and more mature books to the back, and let her know she can read anything on the front row of that bookcase except the top shelf
The oz omnibus this morning. We've read the wonderful wizard of Oz (with original art) and listened to it twice apiece. Her final dance show was a week or so was wizard of Oz. We've read and listened to Return to Oz (again original art) only once each.
She's going to be a @Adam_Murdough level Oz-head by the time she is grown.
2 weeks ago I went through my bookshelves and did a reordering.
Today I worked on my comics closet.
Here's what I noticed. 1) I'm pretty sure I have lost 2 dcbs shipments. Fortunately it would be just a few floppies because the trades get get put in a different place. 2) I didn't think Bendis had a long run on superman, but he wrote about 60 issues between Action and Superman. 3) I have a massive pile of unread books. 5) my Hulk collection went from organized to ohh boy there are 300 issues of unorganized messes of crossovers, miniseries, one shots, and family books
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I used to grill fairly regularly, but I pretty much stopped two or three years ago. I might break it out once or twice a summer, but I'm much more into the crock pot these days, and have started using the Instant Pot as well.
Glad to be back on the forums. The decor is much the same as it was the last time I was here in 2018 as @CaptShazam.
As I said in the welcome home and I am glad you are back.
I'm watching sentai timeranger.
Real talk... It's like they took an image extreme comic and made it a TV show. So I'm 95% into it, 100% not reading the English captions
Edit: so there is a giant robot that punches the sentai's megazord back in time.
The NFL released its 2021 schedule this week...
I wonder how Aaron Rodgers is going to Aaron Rodgers Aaron Rodgers.
Here are my thoughts on the lineup of games.
I'm doing a major overhaul of our books/shelves/personal library.
Ohh boy did we have a lot of wasted space and cleared out a lot books we didn't want to keep.
Now if I could just get up the motivation to do the same with my floppies
Baby steps, Matt. Baby steps.
I am about to have to do a major book & shelving overhaul too.
Basically, the storage will become a guest room - stuff currently in the storage room will go to the garage, my main comic book room gets shifted to the new guest room, and what was the comic book room gets turned into a family room.
I am not sure how much space I am losing for comics but I would guess around 15 to 20 percent.
I had a nice big comic book room once....
Now I have 1/2 a comics closet and some shelves. Appeasement does not work; it just leads to ceding of territory.
If I can get it under control I will actually post up some pictures. We have library shelving covering the walls and cubbyhole shelving under the windows.
@CaptShazam_Jr how have you been?
@mwhitt80 I have been doing good.
Adjusting to married live - 1 yr anniversary is in Aug.
Like many during COVID, my work became more at home than before. Now I have a hybrid schedule - a couple days in the office and a couple days at home.
The constant in my life is that there is not enough time to do everything and not enough space to store everything
Quick question who do you use for hosting a website?
@CaptShazam_Jr you picked an interesting year to get married.
I've been married for 13 years now, if I had to work from home with my kids and wife I would insane. I was fortunate and could work in office last year.
@mwhitt80 we only have one “child” at home - my 19 year old step daughter. She is at work during the day as is my wife. The only think that causes chaos with my at home work is that we have four cats and one dog.
Have been seeing a number of lists rating best war movies with The Thin Red Line ranking insanely high. Saw it in the theater and was disappointed - amazing cast (and Caveziel and Leto). Trying to give it another go.
Mallick is definitely able to make a visually stunning movie but otherwise it’s just too much navel gazing. Painfully slow, characters only distinguishable by the actors portraying them.
For all star casts, I’ll take The Longest Day or A Bridge Too Far eight days a week.
I remember being extremely disappointed with a thin red line also.
I mentioned this over in the Current Marvel thread, but I have recently been using Comixology Unlimited to sample some series by reading the first three issues. Yesterday, I read a series called Vampblade and noticed that they referenced that one comic shop owner who founded the Pittsburgh Comic-Con & was later arrested for having killed his first wife years earlier.
Or, in other words, the guy responsible for one of the CGS guys (I think it was @Pants) winding up on Dateline NBC.
Wow
Yeah, long & short of it, the guy (Michael George, I think) would hold a poker tournament for charity at the Pittsburgh-Con. The picture Dateline ( & at least one informative murder-porn show on Investigation Discovery) used to illustrate this showed Pants as one of the players.
Then, whenever the thing would rerun, there would be a thread on the forums saying "Hey, I saw Pants on TV last night!"
That's been a while
My daughter asked if I had any comics she could read....
An hour later she has all but the top shelf filled with books she can read. I pulled out a chunk of my DC showcases, all ages books, moved the teenage and more mature books to the back, and let her know she can read anything on the front row of that bookcase except the top shelf
Curious to hear what she picks first.
The oz omnibus this morning. We've read the wonderful wizard of Oz (with original art) and listened to it twice apiece. Her final dance show was a week or so was wizard of Oz. We've read and listened to Return to Oz (again original art) only once each.
She's going to be a @Adam_Murdough level Oz-head by the time she is grown.
Man I hate full moons. The kids never go to sleep. The boy is the worst
Got my first covid shot today, no issues.
For real the magnet sticks to the injection spot on my arm. I did a science experiment and everything.
2 weeks ago I went through my bookshelves and did a reordering.
Today I worked on my comics closet.
Here's what I noticed. 1) I'm pretty sure I have lost 2 dcbs shipments. Fortunately it would be just a few floppies because the trades get get put in a different place. 2) I didn't think Bendis had a long run on superman, but he wrote about 60 issues between Action and Superman. 3) I have a massive pile of unread books. 5) my Hulk collection went from organized to ohh boy there are 300 issues of unorganized messes of crossovers, miniseries, one shots, and family books
I would just like to remind everyone that if they need anything from the Previews catalog from the first six months of 2010, I'm your guy.
Somehow I was not paying attention to this. @RedRight88 you actually made me laugh.