Hey, Folks!
Boy, oh, boy, was yesterday exciting! There is nothing like a little Snowmageddon to make things interesting. Honestly, I had a feeling that it was going to be a somewhat heavy snow and I’ll admit to feeling a bit hoodwinked when I woke up and it hadn’t started yet, but it certainly had a lot of energy once it began! I got to work at my normal time yesterday (around 8am) and then handled the Wednesday Morning Rush as per usual and then the snow started coming down and everyone disappeared…lol. We had a couple of people in between 11am-12pm, but it was starting to look pretty messy out the front window. I did a quick clean up in front of the store and decided to head home an hour or so early because as much as I HATE driving, I REALLY hate driving in the snow. And then it was just a matter of driving down deserted streets for the 5 mile trek home at 25 miles an hour..lol. It was SO bad that when I got home I gave Brian the option of closing up and heading home. So my apologies to anyone who made the journey through the treacherous snow just to find us closed, but it was pretty dire out there.
I did manage to get plenty of paperwork completed yesterday at home, however, including the Shipping List and Subscription Form. It is an incredibly tiny shipping list next week, mostly because DC and Marvel seem to be treating it as a sort of fifth week event though it technically isn’t. I’m actually glad for the break in new stuff as we have most of our “old stuff” on sale right now! Yes, we will be continuing the Annual Post-Holiday Sale through the month of February even if you won’t be seeing the ad for very much longer on Facebook as I only set it for the end of January. Rest assured, everything from back issues to trade paperback/hard covers to POP figures to small comic art boxes will all continue to be on discount until Tuesday, February 28th!
A quick note to those who base their visits on the arrival of the new catalogs…We FINALLY received the bulk of our orders for Diamond’s January Previews and I am putting those out this week because we still haven’t received the Marvel or DC catalogs for February. We should have all of the component catalogs in and ready to go by next week, however, so plan on visiting us next weekend. One of these days maybe these publishers will arrange it so that their catalogs all come out the same week…
That’s is for me! Not only do I have to do my weekly FOC numbers for DC and Marvel, but I also have to post my initial orders for Diamond hopefully before I leave the store. I’m heading back out to our apartment in the country tonight and I would prefer not to have to take any work home…lol. Have a great weekend!
Eddie