As I was leaving the chiropractor this morning, I was told they wanted me to arrange an extra appointment next week for more traction.
Considering today's appointment was made because I'm away Thursday and Friday of next week, and so could not make the usual Friday appointment, or next Saturday because they're closed, this struck me as rather annoying. Still, I now have an additional appointment booked for the Saturday after that.
Meanwhile, in Cincinnati, many folks are enjoying BotCon 2008 with it's 'mirror universe' theme, where the Autobots are evil, and the Decepticons are good. Oddly, the names still kinda fit. 'Autobot' has quite a neutral feel, so it could go either way... 'Decepticon' could simply imply that the evil, totalitarian Autobot Empire uses propaganda to brand them as terrorists, "Is Your Neighbour A Decepticon?"-style.
On the subject of mirror universes, though, what kind of twisted up parallel universe would you have to inhabit to spend a good few hundred dollars registering for the Primus Package, book a hotel in Cincinnati, and go to the convention purely to pick up your box set to immediately list on Ebay?
I'll freely admit that I think this is possibly the least interesting BotCon set they could have come up with and that, at most, I'd only ever be interested in picking up Evil Jazz because the mold is basically perfect and the head is pretty well done... but it's obscene that people are so mercenary that they'd go to such lengths to get the box set (depriving others - the box set sold out within a couple of weeks of registration opening this year), only to immediately try to get rid of it at a profit.
And when you consider that maybe half the people bidding are looking to win so they can immediately put it up for auction again, to make their money back and more, the whole thing begins to spiral down into utter sickness.
Why would anyone do this? If their purpose is not to enjoy the box set, why pay the extra?
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