country roads

with all the financial and economic "crises" going on in our country right now, personal finance blogs, cnbc, fool.com, mad money, and all the financial porn media are rife with tips, strategies on how to "stay positive", and which investments are "safe" or are good buys for the eventual upturn. news reports and word on the streets are that this isn't a recession, it's a depression. some say that this could last at least another year and we won't be really out of the shit until after 2009. the candidates are trying to use this as fodder to attack the current government and each other. speaking with comrades, we've figured that all of this and a few other factors will lead to the eventual ruin and destruction of this country and the world at large. our solution? move out of the country and live somewhere else for a while.

maybe not immediately, but eventually. suggestions? somewhere in asia. japan's always a pretty choice option, along with hong kong, south korea, singapore, and even philippines. what's the rationale behind possibly leaving america for a disaster zone like the philippines? well, if you've never been, many areas including manila already look like armageddon. if the world were to really end in 2012 (according to the all-knowing mayans), i'm thinking manila won't really look any different. also, if we made enough money in the u.s., we could move to somewhere in southeast asia and live like gods. i'd have a huge castle with maids and servants and bodyguards. the whole 9 yards.

until then, i have to stick with my plan. results? not too bad. projected goal completion? going according to plan if not slightly ahead of schedule. network? still ok. got back in touch with one financial comrade from the mile high and still keeping in contact with another. i think we'll all be ok. and if not, there's always the philippines.

"The one path that you've chosen yourself, is the only truth in your universe..." - Kamina

currently: listening to vanilla mood

spendthrift

work today and more work for the rest of the week as well. getting up early has somehow become easier. i attribute that mostly to the destruction of my internal clock when i was forced to wake up at 6am in vegas (technically 3am in hawaii) and go to sleep at 10pm (7pm) to be able to attend the training classes. i have also been going to bed here in hawaii a little earlier, possibly because my body is just that much more exhausted. i haven't been able to stay out as late as i did about a month ago but maybe that's not such a bad thing.

what do i have to look forward to this weekend? payday on friday, which translates to paying myself a nice chunk on monday. a coworker's fiancee is arriving on saturday and thus requires a large celebration of sorts involving food and camaraderie. the downside? it's in kalihi. also, there's construction to be done and the first steps must be taken soon.

pepper keibu by morning musume is pretty good. i have no problem with it, despite the fact that it sounds pretty much exactly the same as the original version. it worked for berryz and dschingis, so why not?

i have been scheming and racking all the neurons i can muster to rack in order to find some way to increase my output. there are so many different windows, yet they're all somewhat far away or a little too small to get through. i'm still looking. i've been looking since winter 07. circumstances have changed a little, but the drive and the priorities are still intact. i know i can grab on to something, i just don't want to wait for next summer to get it again.

you know someone has gotten really bad at fighting games when your own piss-poor performance is adequate to defeat them. i really only had a few moves going for me in vf5, yet somehow i didn't lose to either sousuke or michiru. i feel i could have done a better job, but i'm more completely disappointed in their performance than my own. tsk, tsk.

"Good things happen to good people, and I am a good person..." - Chris Jericho

currently: awaiting work to finish so i may nap