Looking better...

Aside from this morning's patent translation - I'd forgotten just how different patent language is from anything else - I've mostly cleaned up around the place, with emphasis on finding the various parts to my old flash accessories so that my photos for items I plan to list on eBay look more-or-less... I want to say professional, but I'll settle for usable (in the sense that the image doesn't have a huge "hotspot" in the middle of an otherwise underexposed frame).

I did manage to list a near-mint copy of a 1998 Russian edition of Premiere magazine, featuring the famous "Undercover" photograph of Mulder and Scully between the sheets, as it were. I've got to figure that between the condition, the subject, and the source, this has got to be a pretty rare item for rabid fans of The X Files, but I've been mistaken before.

Looking at my collection of old comics (nothing deliberate; here, "collection" merely indicates they've all been in the same box for nearly three decades) and prices for similar items on eBay, I'm getting the feeling that the only good way to sell them - that is, in a manner that might bring in more cash than the handling charge for shipping - will be on a "Buy-It-Now" (i.e., non-auction) basis. The good news is that it apparently costs much less to list things on this basis; the bad news, one may have to wait a while.

We'll see.

I think I'll go back and do another hour or so of sorting and searching.

Cheers...