Wednesday I opened at work for a change!  The weather had finally cleared up some for great late afternoon beach trips.  I prefer to go to the beach in the morning and leave around noon, or I enjoy going late afternoon for the sunset.  I am fair skinned, and although I use 10,000 spf and reapply constantly, I am still afraid to burn.  This means, for those  of you not living in Florida, one does not want to be out in the sun in the middle of the day for fun.  I digress… Pete is used to me closing, so I thought about sneaking off to my happy place.  He would be distracted by COMIC BOOK DAY!  You know, the best day of the week for a comic book geek.  Oh, that rhymed!  However, he tells me Tuesday, he’ll only be getting two books.  What a terrible COMIC BOOK DAY it will be, alas.  At this point, I’m still thinking about the sand, the water, the relaxation.  But, I’ve already closed twice this week.  It would, in essence, feel like I am closing again.  I wouldn’t be  doing my wifely duty (ha ha) of fixing dinner.  Fine.  You win, crappy COMIC BOOK DAY.  I stayed at work a little later, called Pete when I left the building, and asked him if he wanted to meet up for dinner.  (Wifely duty, my ass.)  ”Sure.”  He says.  ”Like a date?” He says with laughter.  ”Sure.”  I say.  ”How about some sushi?”  I say, looking in the direction of the beach.  Pete asks if I’m still going to the beach, I say “Nah.”   He tells me COMIC BOOK DAY is actually great today.  What!?  It was supposed to be craptastic!?  I was going to stay home, because I was told it was going to be craptastic.  You mean, I actually could’ve left work early?  I could’ve changed into my bathing suit?  I could’ve swam around in the Gulf waters?  I could’ve relaxed in my beach chair, sifting through sand, looking for sharks teeth, watching the sunset?  Such is life, with a comic book geek.  COMIC BOOK DAY is never what it seems.  Days it’s supposed to be awesome, it isn’t.  Days it should be awful, it isn’t.  You just never know about COMIC BOOK DAY.  However, we enjoyed each others company while chomping away on raw fish, cooked fish and even some lightly seared sirloin, all wrapped in sea weed and rice.  YUM!  And, I knew, I was going to the beach the next morning anyway!  Oh, because of the holiday on Monday, COMIC BOOK DAY will be Thursday next week, not Wednesday.  Plan accordingly.