For the last five years I have not been able to test out weird rules like I did in the half decade preceding this last. For the last two years my intermittent location and gainful employment have failed to produce any sort of Walden's Pond phenomena. Progress on the naciente websites such as Giant Ketchup and Complete SRD has been all but nil. Social media blips are fairly easy to maintain, even from a mobile or public computer. Without a production environment designed with the production goals in mind building things can be extremely slow. Like building a car in your living room. It can work, and things have happened. Nonetheless I am busy cleaning up the mess of my internet behavior and therefor unable to broadcast.
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Search and ye shall find Giant Ketchup! The point being that AskShea exists, if you shea show exists. The t shirt store does not, but you *can* buy a Nepa Ninja's mug online. Borrowing fifty gig off a friends pocket terrabyte for a day or two while I 'burn' ..burn? a DVD to use the factory reset option for this Lifebook. Would that I had the time to hack it. Hack hack hackity hack hack. I can, and have restored a laptop to full normal function in the past. Recovering the homepage is a simple reg edit, and while there are specialty softwares that could be necessary to remove spyware and whatever it is that is messing with the graphics card ..sigh.. I *can* also simply reset the system to factory default and then start replacing programs.
I will loose the two or three office suites that my father had installed on the machine, but that is most likely going to 'psuedo~mystically' :knock: protect him from accidentally violating his license restrictions for MS Office 2007, and WordPerfect 2002. Why I need these programs? Oh, wait! I don't. I actually see no reason to install open office. I can Google doc everything and ..while.. I *am* missing a few of the advanced options (and the onenote application which *is* the uber clipboard) I am *also* auto placing the data online and avoiding the annoyance of 'basically' borrowing someones data wallet, or loosing data barring some sort of apocalypse. I do not believe that Google (or its data) are going anywhere *any* time soon.
Oh how I wish I could go Ubuntu, but I have not been able confirm that Zynga and such will operate properly in a Ubuntu and ~ of course ~ Adobe no va onna Ubuntu. You can call me an Adobe snob, but I have a gorramit license for the software and I plan on using it...more accurately I have no desire to relearn the painting process in a different program like GIMP. Not that I am talking bad about GIMP, but it is a different animal (in this case a cyborg badge instead of a moon monkey, to be specific). I like my Photoshop CSV. I like my coffee black. I like my Winstons red, and my pencils number two wood with no eraser.....actually that is not true, I prefer the number six mechanical pencils with the pink erasers.....blink, moving on.
Actually I have no interest in going to Ubuntu. I play too many video games. Noooo! I didn't say that, well actually I *did* install CIV5 and played around with it. That may or may not get obliterated in the Factory Reset (well, I may or may not reinstall it) but I had quite the enjoyable time. All by my self staring at flickering lights that are artfully decorated to seem to hold the weight of the world. I brought mankind to a utopia through commerce and freedom. I conquered everybody that ever messed with me. I declared war on the entire eastern continent, and when the Japanese asked for peace before even firing one shot I agreed to allow their civilization to live independent within the Utopia project. I still built a nuclear device for each city they had on the board. I also returned the city that Genghis Khan had taken to them for no dinero. Near the end I was giving them trade goods and money and cities simply to get their opinion of me up. Never happened.
Where am I? Three hours left on the data transfer, then I have to pause. Hit the government offices because I have the no monies. For whatever reason it is impossible for Kansas boy to get through to someone on the phone. I am sure that it's a total mistake and coincidence, but that would be karma and the way my karma goes I would have to go into a building and ask someone why I am not getting free money for food. They ask 'do you have a job' and I say sorta. They say can you prove that and I say 'I don't know' how do you record driving drunk people home in their own cars as an independent contractor between multiple dispatch theaters? Is that even legal? Can I write that down? I mean, if you are debating whether to use your trust fund this month or keep it tied up in what have you, please avoid doing things under the table but I am looking to keep food passing from plate to mouth, and a sturdy object between me and the sky's rain wind and etc.
Its not that bad. I could live with my parents and mooch off of them until they die. Live country miles away from possible jobs so that I use their car to commute and basically expend more value than I can produce. I would have more time to write. I guess it is still my incumbent duty to report that I make something like 300 dollars a month driving drunk people home in their cars. The problem being is that they will then have the prerogative to ask me how that all works, and I certainly hope that saying 'I hang out at a bar and stop people that seem too drunk to drive. A couple of dancers, bartenders, and wait staff type people have my card. I assume that because they have insurance on their car and they signed this little paperwork deal that everything is cool right' ..getting huffy about how grand of a service I am providing the commonwealth is not ..exactly ..the 'way to go' if they do not like this idea. I am probably being entirely too overanalytical about this. It is not like other people are not out there doing it as well, then again they may or may not be the types to ask for SNAP benefits either. Heres shootin.
All in all, being kept way too busy with jobs too do allot of work webside is preferable. I am interacting with random people. I am seeing things and stuff. I am not sitting in a little room all alone writing this. Someone jest yelled hi at someone over a wall.....heh :smirk: I would like something more like what I had in Oregon. Day job, tech center. Met a new person everyday, learned something useful everyday, solved problems, and when I got home I could write something like a half a script of a superman movie over the weekend, (or, and I did this to no detriment two or three times during my three years of normal person life), take the day off because I had spent the entire night with something radical I had to put onto paper, or just promote on myspace and email radio shows for three hours with a bottle of whiskey. I did all three at various points. Most exciting thing to happen between 2005 and 2007 was SCA camping trips. I got allot of work done.
Ideally a recent business plan mailing hit home with the target. I get a sponsorship of somekind and I have a PR Tour to get working on. Day job be damned! Not that I don't like my day job, I simply have allot of stuff I could be working on. Enough so much that it would be preferable to have full time style employment to work on it. D&D is not a hobby to me. I mean, its a hobby, but what I am working on is not. I mean.....grrr. I am working at making D&D working, like ..an umpire or referee.. mixed with a clown, and a singing telegram!
I looked at my fuzzy dice numbers pretty hard and I believe that I could make a rad little PR Tour Webshow for 200K. Thats nothing. No TV commercials. Nothing but talk and appearances. Hit Comedy Clubs if possible. Bars with DJs if not. Get as many 'drink specials' as you can out of contacts and facebook coupons. Find as many D&D outlets as possible and make sure they get shown or mentioned on the show. The rest is easy ~ answer every question the Host of the Talk Show asks. Do the geek thing with the hosts. Be topical and talk about things other than D&D. Then!
Theater Idea + Social Change caused by PR Tour = Profitable Concept and Yay Job!
