We have ALL the YA graphic novels!!

Well, pretty close.

Brian Hibbs is doing his yearly accounting of graphic novel sales, at least of the top 750 titles.

Out of the first 100 bestselling titles, we have all but 5.

Out of the top 200 titles, we have all but about 20.

Out of the total 750 titles, we're carrying all but about 75. (I have counted all the individual books in a series we aren't carrying as one title.)

I'm not sure how we've managed to do this; mostly, we pay attention to titles that are requested or otherwise rise to our attention for some reason.

I have already tried to order the 20 titles in the first 200 we don't have, of which about 25% are not available. 

I'm going to work my way down the list until we have all of them.

An active social life...of doctor visits.

I'm starting to see a future of constant doctor visits.

A few years back, there was a group of doctors who announced that after a certain age (I think it was about 60 years old) they were going to just let nature take it's course and not accept any treatment. It would be interesting to see if they followed through...

So far this month I've had my regular doctor visit, along with labs, then a visit to a kidney doctor, coming up a scan of the kidneys and also a scan of the heart. another lab test, and another visit to the doctor next month and so on and so forth. My doctor wanted me to have colonoscopy but I demurred. I'll do the poop test instead. 

Coffee is good, Aleve is bad. My creatine level is higher, borderline, so all the tests. Maybe I just didn't drink enough water that week? (Despite what everyone else was telling me, the H2O in my coffee and lemonade is...well,...H2O.)

I know that the heart exam will show a buildup of plaque. I've known this for 40 years, taking statins diligently; it my inheritance and it's the big danger in my life.

Someone I know well who is a generation younger than me just had a life-threatening event out of the blue. 

I don't know. 

It just seems to take up a whole lot of head space.

I'm very fatalistic. What will be, will be. I do not intend to take extreme measures to continue on. Now I'm wondering just how much of this preventative care I want to put up with. Sigh. I'm semi-retired, I can find the time to see a doctor. 

I was worried about having a social life when I fully retired, but these doctor visits may just fit the bill!