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If it hadn’t been for the latest Covid surge, I’d be in Texarkana right now, setting up my table for ArkLaTex Comicon. And while I am glad that the event was canceled, and that I don’t have to make that judgement call myself, I still miss being around all the friendly people in costume, wandering the tables and chatting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course, I miss selling my books, but my favorite memories aren’t selling a bundle of books. It’s the little things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently at a convention, a girl (don’t ask me ages, they’re all little girls at my age) gave me a button. She had a bag of them. I’m not sure what her idea was, but I accepted it gratefully and thanked her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This button has been sitting in my pocket for weeks now and I intend to keep it handy. I doubt it was her intent, but having this button is very useful to me, and not just in case of wardrobe malfunctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since I got cataract surgery a while back, my distance vision is great and I only need glasses for cellphone to computer monitor distance. Sometimes, I’m out and about and forgot that I left my reading glasses behind. Well, you know, looking through the holes in that button focuses the light just like a pinhole camera. It’s a handy backup for when I need to see just a little bit more clearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You never can tell when a little, inconsequential gift will turn out to be just what you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I meet you again, Button Girl, remind me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If it hadn’t been for the latest Covid surge, I’d be in Texarkana right now, setting up my table for ArkLaTex Comicon. And while I am glad that the event was canceled, and that I don’t have to make that judgement call myself, I still miss being around all the friendly people in costume, wandering… Continue reading On the Button<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[569],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_0549-4WordPress.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-2vS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9667,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions\/9667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}