While the cats are away...

So I read Nick's posting the other day, and yes, he has been hammered all week. Now I like my liquor as much as the next guy, but there is only so much a man can take!

But seriously, despite Ben and Aj out of town things have been running fairly smoothly around here. It's good to see that we're not totally incapable of behaving ourselves.

It was weird too, I have to get up much earlier on Wednesdays then I usually do, to go and pick up the comics. Most Tuesdays I'm in bed early and get a pretty good night's sleep, and in the morning Ben is always telling me how he was up all night thinking about stuff at the store.

Well guess what? With Ben not here, that all got put on me and it took me three or four hours to get to sleep! I kept thinking about all the things that needed to be done, customers to be called, orders to call back, damages to ship, all kinds of stuff! But I had to realize that the more I worried about it, the longer I was gonna be up, and the sleepier and crankier I was gonna be on Wednesday. But it all worked out, I got in this morning and James and I just flew through the shipment, took care of all the pull customers and had everything ready to go with 5 minutes to spare.

So I'm not sure what the moral of this story really is, but if there is anything I have learned over the last couple days it's this: While working in a comic book store may only drive you nuts, owning one will keep you up nights. Take that for what you will.