High Altitude Low Opening

More toys to report. I've been totally obsessed with going to Ross recently, and have made the mistake of trying to widen my net. On Thursday, I decided to leave for work early, head over to I-45 and drive down toward work that way, stopping at all the Rosses along the way.

It was a huge mistake. I spent several hours hitting six different Rosses, and finding exactly nothing. I always get this way when I make a big score at Ross. I did this a few weeks ago after I found the three Figrin D'ans at Ross. I went everywhere looking for more, and only wound up finding two extras, and all of them were at stores I normally hit on a regular basis anyway, never at any of the new ones I went to. Now here I was doing it again because I'd found two Klatoonian Raiders.

I guess it's just a new manifestation of my addictive personality. I was addicted to sugar and carbs. I've put a stop to that, and so it has just come up in other ways. It's a good thing that I never gamble, do drugs, or even drink, because I think I'd be a complete wreck over any one of those things. I spend way too much just running around buying toys to get my dopamine. It's time te get a hold on myself, and go back to just looking at the Rosses near me that I usually go to on a normal reasonable timeline.

Anyway, after learning the lesson of not stepping up my Ross searches, I went to a nearby Ross that I usually go to regularly. They didn't have anything that I was hoping for, none of the Star Wars Vintage Series aliens, for example, but they did have one Halo figure that I thought was worth picking up.

This guy is the Spartan EVA. I thought he was pretty cool, and he looks different than the Halo guys I have been finding recently. I bought six of those Masterchief Sargeants that were selling for $2 a while back...

But this other guy was totally different looking, so I picked him up. I'm not sure what I'll do with this guy or with any of the others. I love the armor that Halo guys come with, but I'm not really a fan of Halo itself. I think I'd rather make custom figures that replace the helmets with alien heads like I did with this Walrus Man figure from a while back.

I thought it was a shame that they had raised the price of this new wave they were selling back up to $4. I guess I could only get one...of course, one was all they had at this Ross anyway, so I was good to stop there.