six thousand records

As of three this morning, rain continues to fall outside melting the snow that would have been pretty to see on Christmas morning.  Perhaps that will change in five hours when I leave to go home.
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Korean director Ki-Duk Kim continues to impress me.  Before I left for work last night, I watched and enjoyed his twelfth film Bow.  For me there were a few familiar motifs that I have seen in other films that he has made in the past.  For example, the story took place on an isolated boat surrounded by water with no land in sight.  People would come and go to this solitary location, but we the viewers were not shown anything besides the boat.  The boat was the center of the world if not the word itself in the movie.  This use of isolation is quite common in his work.  A second previously seen motif is a conflict between an older generation and a younger one.  Finally, there is an element of the supernatural in the film that is either lost on a Western audience or draws them in even more than the rest of the story.
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In my comic book database, I reached six thousand records.  I suspect that this number might frighten some and maybe draw snorts of amusement from others, but I thought that it was worth noting.  There was no way that I could have possibly known that twenty six years ago, I would amass that many books.  At one time I had a small stack that I could hold in my hands and read over and over.  Now it would take me weeks to read my entire collection.