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Oh, my aching back... literally. When I lay down last night, I discovered that sitting on the floor for the better part of an hour during the ritual croggled my back up REAL good. The worst pain was around my right shoulderblade, for some reason, and kept me up for a while trying to find a comfortable position before I finally gave up and took some Ibuprofin. Ahhh, sweet relief.

George and I are keeping an eye on some eBay auctions for Lee, one of which will be up this evening: an iMac G3 600 MHz with 256 MB of RAM, a 25 GB hard drive, a CD-RW, and Mac OS 10.3. It's a Graphite, which looks cool, and should be more than powerful enough for her purposes. It's up to $108.50 US, and, considering that we're willing to go as high as $175, it's well within our price range. Just waiting for an email back from the seller to see if he'll take a Canadian postal or bank money order, or Western Union, as a form of payment.

It looks like Jeff's gaming group is coming over HERE tonight, as opposed to meeting at his place as usual, since they're suffering a burst sewer pipe which makes gaming over there impractical. What excellent timing, that I happen to have the place cleaned up from yesterday's event!

Off to change...

There. The living room closet has been excavated, dug through, and repacked. I found several kinds of incense that I'd forgotten I possessed (including juniper leaves and berries and some lovely Egyptian Goddess blend, made with red wine), and a couple of different sets of divination cards -- but no Rider-Waite or Po-Mo tarot decks. *insert cursing here* Well, it looks like the kitchen pantry is next to be delved into, since there are several boxes jammed into the back and up on the top shelves that haven't seen the light of day since we moved over a year ago.

On my walk this afternoon (yes! I actually made myself get out! much rejoicing!) I was able to obtain a good largish box from the local Foodfare to replace a couple of boxes that had been broken in the closet. The good news: it's nice and sturdy. The somewhat "ehhh" news: it has traces of blood spatter on it in places, because it came from the meat department. Oh, well -- it's not as if we're going to be eating off it, and the spatter was well and truly dried. I'm not about to look that particular gift horse in the mouth. ;-)

I also found a boatload of old artwork of mine -- some of the last "fine" artwork (as opposed to commercial work) I ever did, from 1996 or thereabouts. I was amazed to discover how good it was. Maybe I'll scan some in and post them behind a cut.

As well, I discovered some potential stuff for eBay auctions, including a Star Trek/Xmen Crossover Event giveaway from Marvel Comics -- two limited edition Blockbuster Video Giftcards featuring art from the crossover (Captain Kirk and Wolverine... hee!) which were given away at the 1996 San Diego International Comic-Con and were each worth, at the time, up to $4. That is DEFINITELY something I'll have to scan in, because it is almost too strange to believe -- and who knows, someone might actually want it as a collectible. There were 10,000 given out at the con (the ones I have are 9,162 and 9,163), but I'd be very surprised if many of them survived to the present day.

( ETA: I scanned them! And here they are. )