Rebuilding a database (7 hours and counting), testing a newly launched website (it’ll be public soon), and working on some reports tracking statutes of limitations.

Oh, and the Chargers are 4 points behind the Ravens with 3:33 left in the 1st half.

Sunday, when you own your own business.

BEEP! Jon is too busy being genuinely nerdy (bug hunting, programming, keeping clients happy) to come to the blog right now.

So, you get to hear from me again.

We have a HUGE comic book collection. There are stacks of long white boxes in our garage, and not a small number of the shorter white boxes. Some of the books have been properly archived with bags and boards, but some have not, so I’m on that duty these days. In addition, I’ve been practicing the alphabet as I put the books in some sort of order. (Let’s see, it goes X-Men, Amazing X-Men, New X-Men, Ultimate X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, and X-treme X-Men, right? or should X-Men go before X-treme X-Men? hmm…)

In an attempt to catalog the collection–and to find out exactly how large it is–I twisted my own arm this week and bought a copy of ComicBase Express and a barcode scanner.  (Check them out at http://www.comicbase.com.)

I can’t wait until my new tools arrive!

(Yes, we go to Comic-Con. Do you really need to ask?)

According to Merriam-Webster (online, naturally), a nerd is “an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person; especially : one slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits.”

I think the first part of that definition’s a bit unfair, but the second half makes a certain amount of sense–if still rather disparaging.

Yesterday I put “our” fall TV shows in a spreadsheet so Jon could more easily program our two TiVos and our backup DVR. And today we went to see the movie 9 and were enthralled by it. Then we went to Ikea and tried to recycle the alkaline batteries we’ve been collecting for the last 2.5 years, but alas, they no longer accept them.

I dunno–do we fit the definition?

This blog of ours will let us thrill you with our nerdish exploits. We hope you enjoy reading about them as much as we enjoy having them.

Jon, over to you.