Starting Sunday

I am officially starting my first shift on Sunday. I'm excited about having money again, because I have already made plans for it. I intend to buy several pieces of industrial-grade woodworking equipment. I plan to have a complete and fully operational shop by the end of the summer, with which I can craft affordable furniture for sale at either trade shows, or the occasional local outdoor bizarre.

I already have a few designs in mind, and this additional income would further my goals. Now I just have to come up with a name for my shop, and have a nameplate produced that can be easily affixed, so my work can be identified. I know a machinist that can probably do it fairly cheaply.

It’ll be nice to be doing something that I can feel is related to what I studied at school.

Gainful Employment

Found a job. Here in town. Not related to my field, but that's okay. It is an awake overnight position at a social services program. In more important terms, I will be able to have money again, and in three months I can get health insurance.

Yeah. All I have to do for this job is attend some training programs, and stay awake at night. The rest of the time, I can watch movies, play on my laptop, whatever. Also not a minimum wage job. Bonus.

Toy Store Oddity

This past Christmas, my parents bought a thoughtful board game for me, featuring the CBS television show; CSI. It's a great (for an adult like myself) game about Crime Scene Investigation, and if ever you watched the show, or even heard about it, you'd know by-and-large that it is primarily about (although not exclusively) murder. So the game, in my mind, was an update to the exceptional murder-mystery game; Clue. Completely modernized, and with a cast of investigators, not as in its predecessor; would-be murderers and victims. It was a brilliant advertising mechanism, and sure to sell like hotcakes.

Unfortunately as fantastic an idea as it was for them to capitalize on such a sure thing, it was just the opposite, in my mind, to release the remake of another childhood classic; the junior chemistry-set. Yes, that innocent instrument of learning has been fashioned in the image of an homocide Evidence Kit, and displayed with the likes of (I'm not kidding) sidewalk-chalk and finger-paints. (at Toys-R-Us)

A graphic and desensitizing product meant for children, the future fans of CSI: Houston [IX] (Whatever, you get my point.) Completely inappropriate.