Just pay me a percentage or send me cute pictures of mustelidae and we're good.
Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Just be sure to take your stapler with you if you burn the building down.
GasBandit
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I'd never leave my trusty Swingline 747. It doesn't bind up as much as the Boston.
GasBandit
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For a variety of reasons, that basically boils down to refusal of management to invest in paperless solutions and labor's tendency to ignore any work that they can't hold in their hand.
The last book store in my town is closing. Well, bookstore is a loose term, it's what I went there for specifically. And I'm not handling it well. But what really gets me is that people are freak-out buying stuff when their 'closing-everything-must-go' prices aren't any better than the deals they had weekly, or monthly. Like, why? It's 10% off, they had coupons for more off in their weekly ad.
I nearly followed suit though - walking through the store I piled book after book in my arms, then slowly put them back, one by one because I didn't have the money for them all. I'm amazed at how picked over the store is already too. *SIGH* I'm sad.
I nearly followed suit though - walking through the store I piled book after book in my arms, then slowly put them back, one by one because I didn't have the money for them all. I'm amazed at how picked over the store is already too. *SIGH* I'm sad.
Yeah all we have left is a Barnes & Noble. The last bookstore closed a few years ago, and I hate that I didn't make time to get there more often. Was one of those tiny, 99% used books stores that smells like a musty old library and you could spend hours just combing through one genre (I picked up a ton of fantasy books there when I was a kid).
GasBandit
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My local Hastings Entertainment Superstore (about a third of which is books, the rest is movies and video games) is going out of business with a sale, too. I briefly considered going in, but it occurred to me I don't use physical media anymore. I haven't bought a printed book since Pauline died, and I haven't bought a physical copy of a movie, TV show or video game in even longer.
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I met RA Salvatore at the Hastings on Texas in Bryan once. I got his autograph.
When Circuit City closed, Lifehacker did an expose on store liquidations and all the tricks they pull to get people to buy things at higher prices than they sold before the closeout.
GasBandit
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That's the one closing. Maybe the College Station one is too, I dunno, but the one at Texas and Villa Maria has a "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS" sign out.
I've been without a Hastings for a couple of years now. It was a thriving store, but the landlord greatly inflated the rent. So the parent company was closing some stores anyway....
Hastings is, loosely, what the webcomic Between Failures, is based upon.
The election is not until November...
He's upgrading to Windows 10 tonight before the free offer expires.
--Patrick
You can get rid of that.
I tried to skip gravol with my new super strong anti-inflammatories today. Not a good plan 
I felt this way when I stepped into a fire anthill as a kid while visiting friends in Georgia.
Hot soak, hot as you can stand.
I sat on one as a kid. In shorts.
That day is burned into my memory.
--Patrick
GRAH-curse you twitter, my friend Chad sent me a message FIVE days ago and I JUST got it today.
Yep. The day Kati decided to trim it back to above her knees was a memorable day, indeed.
--Patrick
I hear certain types of chameleons do that.
The red, gold, and green ones?