Something tangential to this site's public purpose (but within the bounds of its ultimate purpose) is this artifact from my childhood, from a time when I lived on the east coast and is one of the things that have made me always love Halloween.
This book followed us throughout my childhood, in our travels it was always just part of the Halloween decorations, but I always had a great fondness for it, and would often set it aside from the decorations being packed away so it could reside on a bookshelf, handy for perusal. Nobody in the family objected.
got some silicone laid down. Revolutionary war comic book flats, some 1/144 battletech figures and tanks, and a fuel truck and staff car for the Fabulouth Armee.
8-bit Show and Tell's JRPG-Style Menu in C64 BASIC with LOADSTAR's Toolbox 181: This has some intriguing possibilities for adventure games, and features a ton of stuff I never even thought of.
So it's the firstest of the menses and therefore my favorite time of the month, when I get my monthly mad money. this is my budgeted spending dough for hobby stuffs. games, books, toys, art supplies...whatever so long as it's inside the budget. I ought to have used some for lead weights, for treat foods and beverages. and saved some. instead; I splurged on D&D related cool stuff and "MY" book.