What did you do in each of those situations?

As shall (I hope) be an annual tradition for me, let's celebrate the new year with the Riverdale gang!

Okay, so the Lodge mansion is basically the size of a small town.

That still doesn't explain how someone could get lost in there for YEARS.

Then again, if the Israelites got lost for 40 years during an 11-day journey...

Okay, it's been a while since we've done a color challenge, so here we go.

Pick your favorite picture(s) of Cheryl from below and color away!

Cool. I wonder which novel that this story adapts.

Basically, it comes down to "What kind of a greeting is that?" Why ask "What's goin' on?" when they really have no interest in finding out? Why not say "Hello"?

Besides, you never know when the person that you're greeting might be having a bad day, and the last thing that s/he wants to hear from someone is "What's goin' on?", "How ya doin'?", "How's it goin'?", "How are you?", etc.

Especially considering that fairly recent story in which he knew nothing about photo manipulation.

Because not doing so would be worse.

Imagine if Archie Comics had never introduced black characters. Or Asian characters. Or Arabic characters.

It would be far better if they acknowledge homosexuality than pretend that it doesn't exist.

I'm sure that there are plenty of readers that would welcome a same-sex couple in Riverdale.

Actually, Aya, I said "to all that celebrate it".

During the day leading up to Christmas (and for the entire prior week), we've been open from 6:00 AM to midnight. Pretty pointless, I think, considering the store was pretty much dead in the last few hours (excluding one night in which I got two customers at 11:58 PM with hundreds of dollars' worth of items and ended up leaving at around 12:20 AM).

Also, on December 23 (I believe), the service desk girl asked me to straighten the Christmas shelves by the front entrance before I left. Before I finished that, a manager asked me to take some Christmas figures and place them on the top shelf in Christmas. When that was done, an employee asked me to take a box of candy and put it back on the shelf (because she didn't want to walk over there, apparently, and probably thought that I was staying after closing to straighten). I ended up leaving at around 12:20 AM.

Today, we seem to be back to our normal hours. I worked from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM. When I got in, it was busy. There were 4 or 5 registers open throughout the early part of my shift. Supposedly, when the day started, it was busy, but they had only two cashiers. It got pretty much dead at around 3:50 PM. So much for salvaging the holiday shopping season.

This isn't a complaint, really, but more of an observation. Last Christmas season, the largest total that I rang up for a customer was $1,666 and change. This Christmas season, I haven't had an order that reached $500. I'm curious to see Kmart's holiday shopping season report when it comes out.

Gregg, The Angry Video Game Nerd (warning for language) has this humorous video in which he discusses the confusion over video game and movie sequel titles. He makes mention of some of Bruce Lee's films. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEVzPCY2T-g&feature=channel_page

More of mine:

when people that don't know me wish me a Merry Christmas (thus presuming that I'm a Christian)

that one person in church that I always hear praying/singing more distinctly than everyone else (whose voices blend together); usually, it's the person standing right behind me, and I have to resist the urge to turn around and do something unholy

men that greet me by asking "What's goin' on?"

Merry Christmas to all that celebrate it.

Here's an image from the Super Duper Cooper Christmas (yes, really; it's a family tradition):

Wiriting fanfics. I've written one so far, and the sequel is in the works.