It was a splurge but a controlled one ... sort of

Went into Perth to pick some tickets up - more on that later - and dropped into my two favourite stores while I was there. From Quality Comics, I grabbed BtVS S8 #13, BtVS S8 #14, BtVS S8 No Future For You TPB, AtS: ATF #5, AtS: ATF #6, AtS: ATF #7, AtS: ATF #1 Director's Cut, Serenity: Better Days #2, and Serenity: Better Days #3.

From Empire Toys, I got BtVS Omnibus #4 and finally, my one and only impulse buy: Serenity: Those Left Behind HC. I have never really liked the digest-sized Serenity: Those Left Behind TPB so I finally caved in and bought the HC. It looks very very nice.

I have some major reading to do!

I have the Supanova tickets, sort of

The on-line buying part went all very smoothly but it was too close to the day (29th June) to get the tickets posted out so I thought I would drive up to Perth and collect the tickets there.

I discovered that Ticketek, in all their wisdom, only have pickup points operating Monday to Friday! I tried two different places - the Regent Theatre in Subiaco but the box office was shut there so I drove back over to Burswood and asked at the box office there. I could buy tickets there but not collect! WTF?

I drove about 200 kms (Mandurah and back) for these tickets only to discover that I will have to do it all over again during the week - and take time off work to get them! I say again: WTF?