It's taken me a month, but yesterday I finally spent the last $20 note that I entered the country with, so on Monday it's time to start drawing from my new bank account. The final note was sacrificed to Make Comics Better; I started a standing order at the comic shop. Such a difference from back home, as the guy behind the counter was friendly, talkative, and laughed at my inclusion of Ministry of Space. He thought he might have one thing I was looking for in stock, so he went and had a look (they didn't, but they'll order it for me). Such a change from Oxford.

Through no real effort of my own, I seem to have stumbled across several people who I thought had dropped off the Net today. There's Paul O'Brien, who seems to post less to the rac* hierarchy these days, but is over at the V Forum (yes, I broke down; I'm not going back to the WEF though - the amont of unread messages scares me. And I like Nick's Transformer stories), and he has a LiveJournal site. I checked up on Priest's weblog to see if he's made any postings about Black Panther #49, and he gives me a link to Elmo, who I thought had disappeared years ago. Nice to see that they're still around (mind you, it's not as if they know who I am - I posted about once every two months to USENET back when I was at Manchester, and apart from getting scolded by Roger Stern once, I didn't make too much noise there).

Today's pick from the Netflix account was Rushmore. Not the extra-fabulous Criterion edition, just the regular version, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Especially the escalating battle between Murray and Schwartzman.I can see why people rave about Wes Anderson now; I've got Bottle Rocket in my queue, and I'll probably pick up The Royal Tanenbaums as it's rather cheap for a Criterion release...