I feel I must apologize to… well, I guess anyone who’s bored enough to read this stuff on a regular basis. I have been engrossed in a project for the last three days and in order to meet my deadline I had to neglect many things; my novel, my family, World of Warcraft, personal hygiene and yes, my blog. But that’s all over and I’m back to the old grindstone, hoping all my hard work pays off. For those of you interested to see the fruits of my labor, you can go to mythangelo.deviantart.com and look for the art piece titled Built2Rock. Yes, it might look simple but it took a lot of work.
Anyway, so we’re two days away from yet another weekend and I have that ever present dilemma heading my way: what to do? What do I do on the weekend? Where do I go? It happens every Friday, like a bad rash that keeps coming back. Work is over and yet I have one more important decision to make. Do I go out? Do I stay home? Do I spend money? Do I have any money to spend?
A lot of times the answer to that last one is a huge resounding “no”, and that kind of solves the entire thing right then and there as I realize I am in for two days of World of Warcraft and pizza. If I’m lucky they have the 2 liter coke bottles on special at the Dollar General and I can get a drink with that pizza.
But what about the weekends when I actually have a little money to spend? You know, it happens! Some freak accident caused me to keep my finances straight for a whole week and lo and behold, weekend comes and I have not wasted all of my money in trivialities like, oh I don’t know, groceries and diapers. So here I am, money in the wallet and a decision to make. I could go the responsible way and stay home, save my money and maybe have something to buy breakfast come Monday. But I’m not going to do that. These opportunities are too few and precious to waste them with things like mature decisions and responsible behavior.
Hey, I could leave town. Why not? I have a good car, the same car responsible for the fact that most weekends I don’t have the cash to buy a beer can from a hobo. But when I do have money, at least I have the option of skipping town. And that opens up my choices that much more. A lot more, in fact.
You see, where I live we have essentially two choices for entertainment. We can go watch a movie in one of our two third rate theaters, an activity which involves the risks of food poisoning and becoming permanently attached to the impossibly sticky floor, or we can go hang out at the local book store and renew our Geek Club Membership. Yes, we do have one mall, but you can see all of it in the time it takes to shave a baby.
No, I never shaved a baby, but I imagine it can’t take too long.
Well, It is obvious that you have no intention of helping me with my dilemma so I’ll let you go deal with your own. After all, I still have two more days to figure this out. Then again, right now it’s looking like it’s going to be a “no money” weekend so I might not have a dilemma after all. Have a great day!
Originally Published 09/17/09