1.) The only problem with Redheads is that there aren't enough of them... Well, at least the female ones. The male gingers are usually pretty damned ugly and have no soul. Poor bastards...
2.) Speaking of Redheads... I read an interview earlier today with my favorite Redhead, Leanna Decker. According to that interview, she can cook, she sleeps in the buff and said she wanted to work for NASA as a kid. Wanting to work for NASA as a kid (assuming she was being serious and not joking) means that she will make an EXCELLENT assistant in my future Mad Science Laboratory. Ladies and Gentlemen, I now have more reasons than ever to love this woman. I need to marry this girl right away and VERY enthusiastically give her at least a half-dozen beautiful ginger babies born with their own souls. I have spoken! ;)
3.) Speaking of the Mad Science Laboratory... Well, I managed to get most of the crap in my garage cleaned out and should be able to start setting up shop sometime soon. Until then, the low-cost projects I have in mind can be done in my house. One of them will be making a game emulation machine out of a small, computer-on-a-chip called a Raspberry Pi. The other will have to be done in my living room because, that's where the monster in question will live. The 'monster' in this instance is some of my mother's old vintage component stereo equipment being integrated with mine in the living room to create the ULTIMATE sound experience. Pics and a new post will be made about it sometime soon.
4.) I have been going to church with my mother a lot as of late. It has proven informative on a lot of things, especially St. Paul's mindset when he wrote many of his letters. All that being said, my general opinion on spiritual matters remains the same: Faith is fine. Organized religion is the WORST enabler of bad behavior in the history of Human civilization. Good thing this is a church that practices Biblical Christianity and seems to agree that Organized Religions are terrible.
5.) I was once debating over whether I wanted to get a PS4 or an XBOX One. Now, I'm not sure that I want either of them. After doing some research, I see that both systems require me to install
the game from the disc, much like installing games on a PC. What the
Hell?! One of the reasons why I like Consoles is because I *don't* have
to bother with installing much of anything, let alone the whole game. What if I get more games than my console's HDD can store? PS4 can be upgraded with larger hard drives but, XB1 can't. I don't mind having to download software patches/updates and putting game saves on a hard drive but, the whole game? Only if it's classic or a small game from an indie developer that I downloaded from a service like Nintendo eShop, PSN, et al. Looks like I'll just stick to WiiU for the time being...
6.) Upon further review, I see that PS4 and XB1 have those requirements because the Blu-Ray drives run too slow to run the games off of the disc. Running them off the disc would result in very long load times. PlayStation would definitely want to avoid that since PS1 & PS2 were infamous for long load times. It might also be why, according to the rumor mill anyway, that Nintendo is (supposedly) going back to a cartridge format for their next console. I think it's more likely to be a form of solid-state media like a SD card or the HuCards (aka 'TurboChips') used on older consoles like the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16. SEGA Master System also had something similar but, most developers just used cartridges instead.
7.) I am starting to get annoyed with immature/perverted idiots on the internet constantly harrassing Cosplayers to do nude shoots, especially Jessica Nigri. If they don't want to show you their tits, then they don't have to, guy! There's more than enough Porn on the internet. Go find some and rub one out, already! By acting like the obviously immature little 12 year-old you are, you're giving that bitch Sarkeesian more ammo she can try to use against #Gamergate. Don't be that guy.
8.) Anyone who reads this blog regularly probably remembers that '17 reasons why I left the Army' post. In that post, I discussed how many soldiers were a bunch of rapist bastards and provided a link to a video made by an Army buddy who experienced a sexual assault. I just found out on February 9th that it happened to another female I knew in my battalion from Korea. I wonder how many other female co-workers of mine were assaulted or raped... Just when I thought I couldn't get MORE disgusted with the Army, I somehow find myself becoming even more disgusted.
9.) I'm finally making some headway with the VA and getting regular medical care. Still fighting with them about the disability rating, though... Can't say much else about it right now because there's genuinely nothing to report. Like any other agency of the Federal government, this is likely to be a LONG process.
10.) Right now, my immediate concern is finding regular work. The Insurance Adjusting stuff I have been doing since leaving the Army in 2014 is becoming less and less reliable/desirable. I am getting help with that from the VA and a few Veteran's Service organizations. Hopefully, there will be some positive results sometime really soon.
11.) Why is insurance adjusting so undesirable? Well, the way it's gone so far, I haven't been able to get any work except in various State Farm call centers. Those gigs are 60 hours a week and mean being away from home for months on end. The money is good but, much of it is either taken via taxes or spent supporting 2 households: my house in NOLA and whatever apartment I can find in the town where the call center is located. Finding an apartment is also time consuming and difficult, thanks to the long work schedule. That means that you're living out of hotels for at least the first month that you're away. The money you do make is often spent before it can even be enjoyed. Not hard to imagine why I'd want to switch careers, huh?
12.) I have told the companies that I work for that I would like to do catastrophe work. (i.e. going to disaster areas and examining damage to cars and property after hailstorms, hurricanes, et al.) I didn't get any of that work last year because, there just wasn't any available. 2016 might be different but, I am not taking that chance. As soon as I can get a regular job here in NOLA, I will never take any of these out-of-town gigs ever again.
13.) All that being said, I shared my idea for a Retro-game store with the VA career counselor that I see every week and she think I should go in that direction. So, I'm putting my list of informal ideas that I showed her into a formal business plan based on a template from the Small Business Administration. That's where most of the writing I said I was going to start doing again in a previous post has been as of late. It would be wonderful if I could get the SBA to give me a loan to start this business. I do have a better chance than most since I'm a Veteran but, I have to admit that I have no idea what I'm doing yet. There's a lot to learn...
- Publius
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