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A couple Novembers ago, I stumbled into The Dreaming Comics & Games for the first time. It's a little comic book and role playing game store on 'The Ave' in the University District of Seattle. It's owned and operated by the nicest dude in the world, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/sets/72157603808166119/" title="Aron Tarbuck at the Dreaming Comics & Games - a photoset on Flickr">Aron</a>.
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<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/2224721952/" title="Aron Tarbuck at the Dreaming Comics & Games in the University District of Seattle, WA by veganstraightedge, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2327/2224721952_d5c2e56ab0_m.jpg" alt="Aron Tarbuck at the Dreaming Comics & Games in the University District of Seattle, WA"></a></p>
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That first time I came into the shop I offered to make him a website in exchange for in store trade credit. Although, that didn't happen right away, I did start working for him a couple weeks later organizing his back issues. I had no idea how daunting a task it would turn out to be. There 90 long boxes worth of books on the floor. At the time when I started there were prolly another dozen long boxes stacked up around the store. And, even though I didn't know it yet, there another 30 or so long boxes in the back that there wasn't room for. What had I signed up to do?
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I've worked off and on for 14 months or so on it (and other store organizational things) with peaks and valleys of time put in at the shop. I wish I would've recorded actual hours on this project. After a ton of alphabetizing, reordering, moving stacks and boxes around (so many times Emily was able to see some actual muscle on my arms), a massive sale, more alphabetizing, reordering and moving stacks around, I reached a serious milestone yesterday: I have 1 box left to assimilate in the cases. I ran out of time before he closed last night, but I really wanted to get it all done. Oh well, I will next weekend, I guess.
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<p>Either way, this is how I feel.</p>
<p><a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/01/24/funny-pictures-theyz-alphabetized-u-happy-now/"><img src="http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-exhausted-cat-alphabetized-cds.jpg" alt="funny pictures"></a></p>