Hastings stores are no more with in the Tri-Cities area or for that matter.....

Hello All, I'm sure that everyone around the world is very said to once again see the downsizing of yet another business that has kept a lot of us entertained weather we realized it or not. I used to go to the address of where Hastings is seen here

on George Washington way in Richland. In fact I remember when the very building use to be the grocery chain known as Food Pavilion and even further back than that it was in the mid nineteen seventies when it was Buttery's who were a huge chain that competed with both Safeway and Albertson's. I am not sure of when they changed to Food Pavilion exactly I believe it must have been when our family was living on the east coast which was in nineteen eighty six to the summer of nineteen eighty eight. Hastings to me was always a place to go to when I couldn't make it out to the other city known as Kennewick to get to Colombia center to shop at Barnes and Nobles or any other reason to go to the mall. Hastings was in fact the place to go to and find music, books, posters and of course for some the coffee shop when Star Bucks just wouldn't wait! I had actually seen someone back in August holding up a big Yellow sign with Black writing on it that stuff was up to fifty percent off on sale at the store.  

When I just happen by there today at two thirty on the outside of the entrance window it said last day in Capitol letters with a big red number 1! So in a way I was lucky to see the place one last time. After I was there for a half hour they went and told every one in the store that you had a choice of a White plastic bag that could be filled with anything expect books for forty dollars. The other bag was a Black bag and if you filled it with books they were five dollars apiece. So I filled up a white bag with these DVDS and other stuff

for forty eight eighty five. There four DVDS missing but I went and had a WHOPPER of a savings of two hundred and forty nine dollars and seventy eight cents. I then went over to Adventures Underground and made sure that even though they as well were having a massive book sale of both books and comics I resisted the urge to get only these two very nice Spider-Man drinking glasses for

a little over ten dollars a piece. The all RED one has Peter's suit that Tony Stark made for him before CIVIL WAR started known as The IRON SPIDER-SUIT and the clear one has a Stencil of a Steve Ditko image of Peter in his first hand stitched one from as far back as AMAZING FANASTY number fifteen. Yet I know that I will miss going to Hastings when I'm in Richland from now on the thing that I hope happen for the former employees can get a great standing in their future job searches..... This really I hope that ALL, Hastings employees from state to state can have a reckoning of ease for since the company as a whole filed for bankruptcy when getting a new start in the work world.                  

A Black and White graphic novel known as.....(pt 1 of 8)

Hello comic readers who love comics of ALL KINDS......,
    Here is what we are reading for our upcoming review for the comic book group


at Adventures Underground in Richland Washington at the uptown shopping center. It will be nice to see if this set of reviews bring new comers to the store, that want to just see what the club is all about, or just if you want to make new friends.... Here is my personal take on the first book called "CUBBY HOLE".

Kids are......

Hello All,
        You know many of you who choose to read these very entries have at one time or another have been little or small in every way possible. I will admit that I love to talk about a certain part of my own childhood mainly because I love to remember my younger self so much because I think it will help me be ready for when I'm ready to have an offspring of my own, not that I'm planning on that at any time real soon. Yet what it is I'm waiting to talk about today is how children of any age really go and slap us older adults across the face with something called humor. I just want everyone to know as I am writing these very words I'm try so hard but finding it completely impossible to hold back from laughing at all.
           So it was about two thirtyish almost and whole hour before I was leaving from work at Albertsons. I was busy taking a bad set of plastic bags that had cuts in them so they couldn't be used at all to our plastic recycle area at the front of the store across from the front entrance. When a young mom and her five year old (I'm guessing at the age part really I am?) little blonde hair baby girl came into the store, and I had said "Hello" to each of them and the precious pretty little princess let out before any words of any kind a huge for her anyway belch that had me taken aback. Especially since she was kind of happy to of gotten rid of it with a small laugh and smile as her mom put her into a cart to go shopping for groceries the mother told me, "She has very often pulled other funny moments of unexpected fun around family even, and she loves to make everyone smile from her given occurrences' when they do happen to come out of the no where moments of life." As they left go about their trip at the store I just had a huge inner smile on my whole soul that made that last just fly by. Most people don't know that it's because of wanting to help any costumer and their kids have nice experience is why I LOVE my career more than the money part of being rewarded. It is all keeping the costumer leaving with a good thought about your day that makes me so very happy to know that I care about them as a good friend even if I don't always know their first name, I do care about their tomorrows as much as they care about me.