Current Ramblings
Monday, December 20, 2004
Stuff.
So, it looks like Hasbro's finally shipping out those damned plates from the 2003 dinner. I welcome any plates people wish to donate to me for...well, we'll call it "performance art". I am so sick of those plates.
I found Alternators Grimlock the other day, and he's quite nice in an Alternators kind of way. His sword is kinda stumpy, admittedly, but otherwise he's good. But it leaves me with a delimma: Who does he stand near in my display? Jazz's fondness for stupid Earth noise would work Grimlock's nerves right quick. And you know he's always got his radio on. Zoom-Zoom is every bit as bad, plus he's not even technically sentient, and while that doesn't hurt Sludge (I know, cheap shot), I don't see that working out. While Hound's embracing of Earth doesn't take such an actively annoying form, he's still a dirty hippie. There was a whole UK story about how much Grimlock hates Tracks. And Silverstreak...I'd give him about five minutes before Grimlock tears his vocal processor out. Smokescreen and Sideswipe seem the best bets, but they're on opposite sides of my display. Ah well, just have to rearrange...
I'm pretty much done with my Christmas shopping, which is nice. Work's been predictably insane, and it would help if people realized that five days before Christmas is not the time to expect a used book shop to have the DaVinci Code or Series of Unfortunate Events. And everybody's nerves are just frazzled right now. Two customers got really pissy at me at the buy counter today, one because we wouldn't buy her hand-labelled, home-recorded VHS movies. It's really a good lead-up to returning to school (which I do the first week of January), since Christmas serves to remind me how much I need to work hard to get out of retail after all these years. But I'll survive just as I have every year. And then I'll have a DS.
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