2663: Death Of A Party
Cake: 
Games: I lost at everything. Out of fairness to me, though, I believe I actually handed Jon the game: When I thought about it, doing Jack checks at the end of each round unbalances the game in the inspector's favour, because there are only eight rounds and eight characters, and doing eight checks--of COURSE it's going to be easier, especially when not all the characters move during a round! So, that makes me feel better that it's simply I played wrong and handed over the win, rather than I was actually losing so badly. [Mind, Lone almost had me, and I as Jack had to help him, in the end relying on his false accusation.] My fault for being so eager to play again at last, as much as it seemed a handicap being Jack both times I played.
Also, my PG strategy seems solid. I just happened to not quite have what I needed to get me that last connection [netting me 3rd instead of 2nd or 1st out of 6].
Life: I can't keep thinking of it as "Man, another day when I could have earned $70 from putting up with more shit at Target," because that was kind of a gift itself, not to mention negative thinking. Yes, it's true, but it's also like taking the Video Challenge at the end of Cash Cab: You haven't "lost" anything in taking it--you are simply trading a positive for either a free ride or double the positive [and free ride]. There is no "I had money and I lost it." Even losing on Cash Cab means being closer to your destination than you were... or, well, I guess losing and being kicked out in a tunnel is kind of worse, but it's still not a LOSS loss. At the end of the day, you will be out of the tunnel by one manner or other and still able to go about your life.
Subconsciously, I must have expected to be unemployed for several months, because I really don't feel bad about it. I'm well off enough that I can continue comfortably for some time [even to take Japan II despite remaining in the red for income], which is my reward for five years of shit. Of course, I'm still being dumb as far as society is concerned, but society has shown itself to be selfish to a fault [I got honked at today for failing to pull into a nonexistent left-turn lane and making them stop on a road where stops really ought to be expected and why isn't there a left turn lane there, anyway], so of course this is going to be viewed as I am a negative [unemployed and questionably productive], rather than everyone else is a positive [employed and productive].
My vague concern is that the generation that's now growing up on Neopets, for instance, is going to have a warped idea of economics. In Neopia, reselling everything is lucrative, because nothing spoils, "work" is play, and trillions of new items are created out of the blue every day. In the real world, reselling is only truly lucrative for those working factory direct or after robbing a delivery truck or camping out for the latest console release, for instance. It's difficult being Kimberly Taylor and happening to have all the right connections in order to be a successful middleman as a mere individual =p
[--which is why the proliferation of college kids selling their artwork, right? No greater profit margin than selling one's own scribbles on paper... and why I hesitate to rely on that.]
Riddle: ...so, what does MacGyver's resumé look like? =| Just wondering, I don't have an answer or anything for that.
Art: I'm so mad at myself for drawing all these stinky little tiny 2" doodles when I was younger. You can tell how old my art is by how small it is on the page, generally =p The later part of my book will be better, 'cause I can fill more pages with fewer items, as it were.
Sleep: NEED EET
Games: I lost at everything. Out of fairness to me, though, I believe I actually handed Jon the game: When I thought about it, doing Jack checks at the end of each round unbalances the game in the inspector's favour, because there are only eight rounds and eight characters, and doing eight checks--of COURSE it's going to be easier, especially when not all the characters move during a round! So, that makes me feel better that it's simply I played wrong and handed over the win, rather than I was actually losing so badly. [Mind, Lone almost had me, and I as Jack had to help him, in the end relying on his false accusation.] My fault for being so eager to play again at last, as much as it seemed a handicap being Jack both times I played.
Also, my PG strategy seems solid. I just happened to not quite have what I needed to get me that last connection [netting me 3rd instead of 2nd or 1st out of 6].
Life: I can't keep thinking of it as "Man, another day when I could have earned $70 from putting up with more shit at Target," because that was kind of a gift itself, not to mention negative thinking. Yes, it's true, but it's also like taking the Video Challenge at the end of Cash Cab: You haven't "lost" anything in taking it--you are simply trading a positive for either a free ride or double the positive [and free ride]. There is no "I had money and I lost it." Even losing on Cash Cab means being closer to your destination than you were... or, well, I guess losing and being kicked out in a tunnel is kind of worse, but it's still not a LOSS loss. At the end of the day, you will be out of the tunnel by one manner or other and still able to go about your life.
Subconsciously, I must have expected to be unemployed for several months, because I really don't feel bad about it. I'm well off enough that I can continue comfortably for some time [even to take Japan II despite remaining in the red for income], which is my reward for five years of shit. Of course, I'm still being dumb as far as society is concerned, but society has shown itself to be selfish to a fault [I got honked at today for failing to pull into a nonexistent left-turn lane and making them stop on a road where stops really ought to be expected and why isn't there a left turn lane there, anyway], so of course this is going to be viewed as I am a negative [unemployed and questionably productive], rather than everyone else is a positive [employed and productive].
My vague concern is that the generation that's now growing up on Neopets, for instance, is going to have a warped idea of economics. In Neopia, reselling everything is lucrative, because nothing spoils, "work" is play, and trillions of new items are created out of the blue every day. In the real world, reselling is only truly lucrative for those working factory direct or after robbing a delivery truck or camping out for the latest console release, for instance. It's difficult being Kimberly Taylor and happening to have all the right connections in order to be a successful middleman as a mere individual =p
[--which is why the proliferation of college kids selling their artwork, right? No greater profit margin than selling one's own scribbles on paper... and why I hesitate to rely on that.]
Riddle: ...so, what does MacGyver's resumé look like? =| Just wondering, I don't have an answer or anything for that.
Art: I'm so mad at myself for drawing all these stinky little tiny 2" doodles when I was younger. You can tell how old my art is by how small it is on the page, generally =p The later part of my book will be better, 'cause I can fill more pages with fewer items, as it were.
Sleep: NEED EET