Holy God, we're set to finish up this month at a surplus! That's unprecedented. I don't know what to do with myself.
I want to chase this feeling, if we can. Really knuckle down and save some money, then be able to kill some bills (no pun intended) later this year. If you think about it this is fairly impressive for us. Just finishing up the holiday season, birthdays, college, a veritable plethora of additional expenses, and we still came out on top stronger than usual. Pretty sweet deal all things considered.
In other news, I set myself a goal of figuring out what to do with my spare time, things that would enhance my life rather than leech it. I did honestly give the matter a great deal of thought, and the honest answer is that I have simply drawn a blank on this quandary. I know the things I'd *like* to do: Get in shape, write a book, but those things are neither new or immediate. So, back to the drawing board. "If at first you don't succeed" and all that.
Been watching a bit of Star Trek lately. I'm increasingly of the opinion that life would be so much better with a holodeck.
21 January 2009
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And that's precisely why the holodeck is a bad idea.
You'd end up summoning beautiful women who would serve you in every capacity. Then one night, you find yourself ensnared by a particularly amazing lady and start neglecting your duties. She keeps asking about vital information about the ship and its crew, but you're a man (hence your willpower is zilch), so you think she's just interested in your job and that makes you love her even more. Your wife always thought it was boring!
By now, you've decided to betray me and you spend your every waking hour in the company of the hologram, whose insistence on gaining information increases. Your crewmates warn you that something is amiss, but you ward them off.
We've reached the end of Act 2. Now your captain barks that the holodeck be shut down until Ensign Mack can get his act together. You are confined to your quarters, but the hologram appears before you in your room and together you work around the security measures and break free.
Foolishly, you now are so deluded, the hologram convinces you she can become real if you steal the doctor's emitter. In reality, she is a brain-wave pattern of a POW that had atomized in a quantum-pulse-distortion-shift and managed to convert her conscious into digital format and invaded the ship's data bank when you collided with the shift in a minor incident at the beginning of Act 1.
As you burst into sick bay, you are accosted by your crew. The hologram attempts to shut down atmospheric controls, but is quickly thwarted by the doctor. The hologram manifests and battles with the doctor for the right to exist. Program attempts to erase program in a fight that is pantomimed with exaggerated grappling motions. At one point, in all of this chaos, you pick up the emitter that has conveniently fallen near your feet.
The hologram leaps into the emitter, but it is stomped by the precocious child character that just happened to come in at that very moment. You cry out in a rage, are placed in a sphero-light-prison, where the captain and crew talk you back to reality.
You are finally seen gazing out at space, a holo-frame gripped in your hand. The camera pans in and the woman in the photo is not the hologram...but your wife.
What is the reason for a new hobby for you? Is it just to have something interesting to talk about or are you getting bored with what you do day to day?
Wife:
You are... alarming, and amazing. :) I think I've subjected you to enough Star Trek for a while, you've clearly got a firm grip on the story structure. My coworkers have all wandered by to try to find out what the heck I'm laughing at. How'm I supposed to explain!?
Thanks, dear, made my day. Seriously, that was amazing!
Randi:
It's kind of both, actually. The two concepts fit together. I'm fairly happy gaming, I'm even pretty content with said gaming centering around Pirates of the Burning Sea, but it's not exactly interesting to anybody but me and it's not doing a whole lot to fulfill many of my other personal wants and needs.
If I expand a bit, I'll have new and different stuff to do, as well as new things to talk about with my wife and friends, which in turn is yet another thing to do, something I take great interest in.
Yeah. *narrows eyes* What does this imply, dear?
Go on, out with it! You're bored of me, aren't you?
Oh, I try, but I just can't keep up with your insane demands. I have...work and... school. I'm going to pieces over here. I'm not a quantum being! I can't exist in more than one place at a time!
Or.. maybe it's worse. Maybe you're trying to expand upon yourself, is that it? The nerve! I can't believe a man your age wants to broaden his knowledge and actually produce something with his spare time. Tsk.
I swear...it's the best egg in the bunch that's first to go bad. *shakes head*
But really, what's up with you lately? Cleaning the apartment without me nagging and doing exercises. Are you the same man I married? ;)
Ah, my audience. *glowing curtsy*
You're welcome.
Anyway, yeah... all silliness aside, I understand where you're coming from.
I returned to school because there were skills I wanted to learn—very useful ones—that I would never develop on my own. And I can't complain about having nothing to do these days. :)
I've been telling you to learn something new for a long time, but you were never receptive to the suggestion. I figured if I was patient, you'd come around. *grin*
So what do you have in mind?
Start watching House, then you'll have something to talk to Joshua and I about. ;-)
Of course you're always more than welcome to watch Star Trek with us. I think Joshua is interested in getting DS9.
Have you come up with any ideas since yesterday?
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