Turns out when you buy passes to San Diego Comic Con you get a magazine in the mail. China Mieville will be there! Sweet! Anyways this visceral reminder that we're going to San Diego this summer inspired us to actually book our flights, which we just accomplished now. I even got one for free from Airmiles. And when I say free I mean only a couple of hundred dollars for taxes and insurance. So yeah, if you want a free Comic Con magazine just send me $200 and I can hook you up.
Speaking of getting great stuff in the mail, today I got a present from Jon- the Star Wars Atlas! Sweeeeeet! Thanks buddy! How's things going over there anyways? How soon till The Crab is out?
Sadly, Hinton still has no movie theater where one could go to see a native Hintonite's feature film debut. My buddy Robin, however, has the nicest home theater ever and maybe we can have a little film festival there. Seriously, he's been working on it for three years or better and now that it's finished it's truly a work of art.
Yesterday was actually my last shift with Robin as he is moving to the maintenance department to begin his apprenticeship. It was sad and was made even more sad because I was stuck on shovel and not being trained by him on pumps as I should have been. And was even more more sad because he got to blow up the ice covering a lake to put some pumps in and I missed it!