Sunday, October 18, 2009

Coo Coo...

...For comic books - we have apparently located some folks who are. The auction is still about 13-14 days away, and we've already got over $80,000 in prebids on iCollector. So apparently we are doing something right.

There is still a lot of work to do - we are missing a bunch of scans that will need to be uploaded, not just to iCollector, but to Proxibid and to the google photo albums we've been using for the website as well. There are still some individual lots that need more description added - mostly stuff like the overstreet price guide prices for the books, and the CGC census information for that particular issue. But the textual info is pretty much finished...that just leaves the huge task of creating and printing the actual physical catalog to be sold to the bidders planning on actually attending the live auction at the Ameristar. So, guess who gets to do that? You get 3 guesses, first 2 don't count.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining - its just a big load of work.

We've got the last auction we are going to do before the comics tomorrow - a restaurant in Maryland Heights. Hopefully it will be a decent sale, but business liquidations can be weird sometimes, and I personally haven't been involved on the setup for this one at all, so I honestly have like, no clue what will actually be sold tomorrow, aside from the obvious fact that it involves a bunch of kitchen equipment.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Lots of news

I've been a bit busy of late - Just got back from the hospital about a week ago with my new daughter, Julia Petra Weiman. She was born on Sept. 17th, 8 lbs, 11 oz. We spent a couple of nights in the hospital, came home about 3 days after checking in, and then after about 2 days at home went right back to the emergency room to get her infant jaundice cleared up. She's fine, Lisa is fine, and I am healing from a minor scooter accident (as it turns out, 2 wheeled vehicles, regardless whether they are motorized or not, do NOT like sharp turns on gravel).

In summation, baby is fine, mommy is fine, scooter is fine (I finally got around to fixing the turn signal today) and I'm getting better.

That's all you get for today.