Toren Atkinson’s Absolute Blog

Garage Sale Booty:
Aggravation game for 40 cents (for James) - missing 2 marbles.
A baker’s dozen of markers & pencils (good ones too) for $1.85

After the garage saling I called James to tell him about his prize. Since my previous plans had their berries picked, I went with him for a long walk with his dogs on the endowment lands. Maybe I should capitalize endowment lands, but I’m not going to because they’re already endowed enough without me making a point of it. It was almost like hiking, except the terrain was largely flat. I enjoyed it, and we saw a nice fat banana slug. Then James took me out for lunch at Acropol and then we went back to my place and played a game of Magic: The Gathering. It was a close game, but my legions of vampires took out his angels & griffons. Then I started working when he left and he came back later to watch War of the Worlds. I’m running Spaceship Zero in 7 days and I still don’t know what the plot will be.

This morning I had a dream that I was at a garage sale and there were two different plastic toy shovels that I thought I could use for something (I can’t imagine what, in real life) so I spent minutes and minutes trying to decide which one I wanted to get. When I finally decided I asked the lady (there were two of them behind the table) “how much?” and she said $3. I hemed and hawed about the price for another seemingly endless time until finally I decided I didn’t need them and walked home.

Here’s hoping my real foray into garage saling goes a bit better today.