The return to the wheel
Back to work with me! Time to take my place as a cog among the gears of outrageous technology. Time to catch up on world events, web comics, and the lives of those around me. The days of watching seasons of television one boxed set at a time are done (for now).
One beauty of this is we are completely unaffected by the writer's strike. Instead of having to be in front of the boob tube at a given moment and discover it is a new episode or a rerun we sit in front of the boob tube and grind through episode after episode in order without commercial interruption. Be sure to hit pause if we go to the john, and please bring me a drink from the fridge on the way back. Hey? Isn't that why the writer's struck (striked?) in the first place? Not my problem, hate it for them. Truth be told it is obvious to me that the writers need to get a cut of the DVD sales. Duh. They wrote it. If they aren't striking for money for DVD sales then I hope its a good reason and not simply greed. My guess is it isn't greed, because studio's, distribution houses and groups like the RIAA have cornered the market on greed and there simply isn't enough greed to go around.
But I have not only digressed, I've derailed, in my devious desire to demean, those demons that demand dividends that belong to the artist.
...meanwhile back at the wheel... I've had some incubation time to think on what I'm going to do now. I'm not talking about what I'm going to do when I grow up. I still want to be a fencing coach who writes novels by day and fights crime as a caped and cowled crusader by night. Short term, you know, just to pay the bills until my duckies are lined up I thought I might spend a little time becoming educated enough to do the job I'm in. I'm not talking about being a specialist, I see no need to place my humble self into a career extinction scenario. I don't ever want to stop being a Jack of All Trades, but I think I might be a little more relaxed in the short term if I dug just a little deeper into skills of the moment.
Who can say, I may even have need of the skill boost when I start being a super hero. Its not like I'm quitting my day job right a way you know, just do it part time at first and on the weekends and work up to a full time writing, teaching, caped crusader role. Exploding ax heads and powered battle armor isn't cheep.
