Daily Blog Thingie
Late update today, I slept late and then got up and went to work immediately on finishing a long page for the D2 site.  Then had lunch, then did a bit of surfing and email, and now this.  I'll get back into the habit of staying up till 2 or 3am, and updating then.  I'm never really in the mood for clever writing when I first get up.  I seem to need several hours of consciousness for my cynicism to come to a full boil.

A few interesting conversational issues from yesterday that I noted down at the time.

Why isn't there a female equivalent of "Thinking with your dick?"

I mean besides the fact that women have no real interest in sex as a pleasurable habit, or something that motivates their actions.  They just put it up with it since men like it, and it's an expression of love and all of that.

Anyway, neither of the women I asked about it had ever heard any equivalent term, "She's thinking with her hoochie (clit, cunt, pussy, etc)." just isn't said, and neither woman I asked could ever recall having any need to say it.

Which would seem to confirm my comment (and deepest suspicion) two paragraphs up.

Why is it bad to shop when you are hungry, but not to look for a date when you are horny/lonely?  Sort of a rhetorical question, since I shopped Tuesday when I was hungry and got about 5 things I can't believe I put into my basket, much less paid money for. Still got 75% of a cream cheese coffee cake, and will probably eat a bit more and throw it away.  It was only $4, and it seemed like a good idea at the time.

My sweet tooth is like that, I'll get a craving for some crap, buy it, eat 1/5th, and throw it out in a fit of self-loathing.

After coming to the "shopping - hungry", "dating - horny" revelation listed above, I came up with several unfunny jokes shortly afterwards, and shared them via ICQ with my perpetually-appreciative audience.

Flux 3/13/200 8:15 PM What's the difference between bad coffee cake and a bad girlfriend?

You can still stand to eat the bad coffee cake.

You can throw the coffee cake in the dumpster and the cops don't care.

After eating the coffee cake, YOU feel satisfied.

It was suggested by my appreciate audience (of one) that "GFs leave fewer crumbs in bed." was another benefit.  However it occurs to me that what they do leave in bed is harder to just brush onto the floor, so we're disallowing that reason.

I needs to get to writing.  It's easy to get caught up in email, updating pages on the D2 site, reading, surfing, etc, while getting nothing of any importance done.

Money is really beginning to worry me, as I'm making far less per month the last 4 or 5 months than I spend, and I don't spend anything.  Other than the new computer and like 4 used CDs, I couldn't name one thing I've spent money on besides food.  Zero clothing, like one movie, no concerts, eat out maybe once a week.  I'm not burning with desire to spend more money, I don't know what I'd spend it on if I had it (other than several day trips to Colorado, BC, Switzerland, etc for snowboarding).

But since the website work I did the last couple of years that was profitable isn't looking like it's going to be that way ever again, I'll have to do something for income.  My part time work at the stadium here pays pretty well, but I just hate it so.

The problem isn't that the work is so tedious, as it's not, but it's just a total waste of time.  I gain nothing there other than the money.  There's no intellectual advancement, it's not doing anything that requires any skill or talent I want to be using for the rest of my life, I don't meet any interesting people, and it's hard on my body.  Constant foot and leg aches when I'm working there regularly, and when the job is 5 hours, but you spend an hour beforehand getting ready, (generally eating like a pig to get some blood sugar and energy for it) and then 2 hours afterwards commuting in traffic, shower, soaking aching feet, eating again to get energy back, it becomes the biggest part of your day.

And yes, 99% of people's jobs are by far their biggest part of their day, and I wouldn't mind a job that took 12 hours a day if it were something of value, with me learning new skills or working with words/writing, that sort of thing.  It's just that the 6-8 hours I spend on my current "part time" job is all wasted time, other than the paycheck.  Which is fine for most people, that's how the majority of the world spends their time, working on things they dislike so they can have money to live on and spend some amount of time doing things they do enjoy.  I just don't want to be like that, if at all possible. 

Anyway, on to writing.  The problem with that is even if I cranked out two awesome novels in the next year, it would take time to get them published, assuming I got them published at all, and money from that would come after time, probably not much for a debut novel, etc.  Of course I've been saying that to myself since like 1994, and the time frame never gets any shorter.  The only people who get money for a novel they've not written yet are celebrities, either by fame or by being in a disaster, or something of that nature.  Or successful novelists, who don't really need the money in advance since they can live off of what they earned for their last work.

In either event, I need to get to working.  Daily updates on this page are fun, but pay nothing, unless one of you guys reading it hooks me up with an agent or publisher.  And even if someone did, what would I publish?  Two novels I've written in the past aren't really good enough to publish, at least not in my opinion, so we're back to how does a writer earn a living.

I'm applying for a cool job writing game content stuff, but I doubt I'll get it.

I can do freelance website work, but it's hard to find work on your own for that sort of thing, it doesn't pay very well, and the work is very tedious.  Websites are fun when it's info you are interested in.  When it's dry and boring stuff about some company, it's monotonous.  Sad how little paying work is fun, huh? ;)

I do have awesome ideas for a novel, fantasy style, set in the Diablo world, but not really.  It won't have anything like battling Mephisto or something like that, and I'll keep the character descriptions semi-neutral.  I mean there will be a Necromancer as the main character, but he's not going to be using the exact game skill tree.  That's too limiting, and anyway, the sneaky goal is to write that for the current audience, and then modify it afterwards to make it a general fantasy tale that would in theory be publishable having nothing to do with Blizzard.  I don't put any hope in getting it published by them as one of their Diablo books, they seem to be going with very straight forward/unimaginative quest type tales, and I'm not interested in writing that for 300+ pages.

But then I've not pitched my idea to them, or written it and sent it off to see if they are interested, so I can hardly criticize.

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