Beyond My Geeky Life

Just learned that today is Appreciate a Dragon Day. Sounds like my kind of holiday. Sounds like the perfect day to explore an interdimensional hotel run by two shape-shifting, master mage dragons, connected to a thousand-thousand worlds with some of the most unique beings you have ever encountered, and read a Georgie and Armand's Place story. And there are a lot to choose from. The novels - A Day at Georgie and Armand’s Place Georgie and Armand’s Place Under Siege Georgie and Armand on Vacation Short Stories - A Visit to Cripple Creek - A Weird Western You Call This Scary - A zombie story An Education in Steam and Gears - Steampunk A Very Georgie and Armand Christmas - A Christmas story How to Survive The End of the World - Post-apocalyptic A Spirited Locale - A ghost story What to Wish For - Genie tale Dragons in Space - Sci-fi Lemon-Man vs. The Flannel Darkness - Superhero Awakening The Deadly Horror - Lovecraftian story Daughter of Ash and Nightmares - Dark horror The Bigger Th...

Sorry for the huge gaps between blog posts here. 2023 ended up being a rough year for me. So here is the first post for 2024, which I hope will be a much better year. I am going to talk about a concept that Chuck, owner of Mile High Comics, mentioned during one of his regular auctions. He talked about how in the end we are only custodians of our collections and that at some point, in some manner, everything we have collected will end up no longer being ours. I know that when I am at a thrift store and I see what was clearly once someone’s collection, broken apart and separated into random groupings, I feel sad, knowing that for some reason that collection was given up. I have felt the same when I see such a thing at collector stores like Mile High Comics. I know how much effort can go into a collection and finding prized pieces that have meaning to you. I also know what it is like to make the choice to sell off part of your collection. I started collecting Magic The Gathering C...