Behold, my will of iron.

[hwango]

Well, maybe not iron. Perhaps psuedo-metallic iron-like substance. Still, I managed to resist the alure of cool stuff that I don't need. TE had their holiday sale this week, and could have gotten myself a Hellboy t-shirt for $12, or one of the cool Zim t-shirts that I don't have (yeah, there are some that I don't have) for $14. But, on sale or not, I just couldn't justify it. Then I managed to resist purchasing the latest L5R book at Borders. I would like to read it, and I don't mind giving money to AEG, but I had mixed feelings about the other "Wind of" novel by Ree Soesbee. I'd rather not spend $7 for a rather thin paperback of which I'm not expecting great things. Newbury Comics had temptations too, but nothing as attractive as the other two establishments.