Where does my money go ?
I make $16\hr , $100\day , $500\week , $2000\month
I brag that I live so inexpensively that half of my paycheck goes into my savings account
but I still can't understand how I'm spending $1000 per month
so I looked at the history of withdrawls from my savings account for the past eighteen months and categorized my spending
| misc or unknown | groceries | ATM | Home Depot | Comcast | DTE | mortgage | streaming | State Farm | gas | water | blizzard | phone | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| total | -$5,998.90 | -$4,977.26 | -$1,120.00 | -$1,665.99 | -$999.64 | -$2,256.48 | -$8,417.11 | -$382.20 | -$327.64 | -$1,616.91 | -$850.01 | -$1,026.58 | -$316.75 | -$800.00 |
| total per month | -$333.27 | -$276.51 | -$62.22 | -$92.56 | -$55.54 | -$125.36 | -$467.62 | -$21.23 | -$18.20 | -$89.83 | -$47.22 | -$57.03 | -$17.60 | -$44.44 |
Daily Food Intake
I am not a "foodie" , I don't need to eat exciting food
I am not a picky eater either
Although , I don't like oriental food , shellfish , nor overly spicy food
Since I make and pay for my own food , I keep it simple and cheap
Every work day , I eat almost the same thing
Breakfast is
a bowl of cereal
a mixture of Raisin Bran , Life , and Special K , plus a childish cereal , like Froot Loops or Lucky Charms
I create 24 bowls of cereal , so it's one less thing I have to worry about in the morning
Lunch is
a meat and cheese sandwich or tuna fish sandwich
chocolate milk
pop
candy
and fruit
I've created a rice and vegetable dish , that I make for dinners
I chop up broccoli , potatoes , corn , peas , green beans , peppers , onions , and carrots
separate them into plastic cups , and freeze them for future use
1/4 cup of rice + a 'cup' of vegetables + 2 cups of water
cooked in the microwave for 40 minutes at 50% power
add in a couple of boiled eggs for protien
and ceasar salad dressing for flavor
and you've got a bowl of nutritious and filling mush
For less than $30 I can create food for a month
On weekends , I eat whatever I find lying around
or sometimes I'll get a pizza or some Del Taco
In the same way that my brain creates self-insert fan fiction
I'll come up with ideas for games
Usually inspired by other games I've seen
I'll have to win the lottery and hire a project manager before I'll ever see them created
Dungeon and Dragons Maze
The popular D&D games are the ones with interesting story lines
This is just a maze that gets revealed one square room at a time
Then you meet randomly selected monsters and treasures
I think this idea is for people that like to roll dice more than role play
Dungeons and Dragons Chess
This is just a game of chess
but when one piece attacks another , it starts a D&D battle , with the attacking piece having advantage
Chess players won't like it because it adds a degree of randomness to their strategies
In the battle phase , I think I'll leave each piece having identical powers
because in a normal game , a pawn can take a knight , for example
Mob Chess
This is an online game of chess
but it's just one move per day
The people on the internet will vote for what they think is the best of the available moves
and then that move will be made
The 'wisdom of the crowd' should insure that each move is the best move
I imagine many games will end in a stalemate
I hate when people say "the government did this" or "that corporation did that"
The internet , corporations , Wall Street , the government , the army , a country
these are non-sentient entities
They are incapable of making decisions or performing actions
It is the individual people that should be punished when things go wrong
I was on a train trip to California when I came up with this axiom
darkness + quiet + comfort + tiredness = a good night's sleep
(four things I didn't have on the train)
I've discoverd that if I can achieve all four of these things
I won't need to sleep for so many hours
I can feel completely rested after just four hours
darkness , turn off the lights and computer screens
quiet , turn off the computers and fans
comfort , soft warm bed
tiredness , stay awake until I'm exhausted and can fall asleep in just a couple of minutes
A sex game of tag I came up with
Remote control vibrators
One in the pussy , one in the ass , two on the nipples
and she is blindfolded and deafened
(i guess you could play with men , but i prefer naked women)
Put four of these women in a playing field
One of them is "IT"
Each woman has a person in the audience controlling her vibrators
Pussy moves forward , nipples move left and right , ass moves backwards or stops
They use the controls to play a game of tag
If the vibrations cause her too much pleasure to be able to move , that's a bonus
Today is Theta Tau's , my fraternity , Founder's Day
It would take too much effort to recount all of my experiences with my brothers
My sleeping brain is playing pranks on my conscience brain
I had completely convinced myself that it was okay to pee in the shower
and then I woke up to discover I had drenched myself in piss again
So , I'm at the laundromat giving the bedding a much needed wash
I installed a flag pole in my yard , with a cheap windsock on it , so I could see how the wind was blowing before going out sailing
Last year , during a particularly nasty wind storm , the flag blew away , and I couldn't find it
This year , I ordered a professional windsock with an attached rotator
but it seemed kinda heavy and didn't accurately show the wind
So , I bought another cheap windsock and attached it to the rotator
It won't fly away , but it does get tangled up when the wind blows up
Today , I discovered the flag missing again
I discovered it in the neighbor's driveway with the clip broken
I assumed some shitty kid jumped up and pulled it down
So , I went to Home Depot and bought another length of pole to keep it out of reach
I need to install some security cameras
I finally took myself to the dentist to get my teeth looked at
It was one of those places in a rich-ish part of town that is more concerned with keeping your teeth pretty rather than healthy
I was impressed with their digital x-ray camera , and relaxing atmosphere
They were berating me for my diet choices , too much sugar
which I will agree with , but I'm too old to change my ways (am i?)
I wasn't impressed when they couldn't tell that I hadn't had my wisdom teeth pulled out
When they started talking about root canals and extractions , and I 'noped' out of there
I don't care about my "smile line"
What I want is to coat my teeth with plastic and ceramics to strengthen them
and I'm not the sort to throw something away just because it's half damaged
I should care about my 'mouth bones' so I don't end up like mom
There are a bunch of series I want to watch that are on HBOmax
I signed up for a month of it , and immediately cancelled the subscription
Funny that I got the "sorry we'll miss you" email before I got got the "welcome" email
I wanted to watch season five of Rick and Morty , but they only had four
They're slowly releasing season five on their website
They've got all of the DC animated shows and movies , and anything else Warner Brothers
Ironically (?) I broke another chunk of tooth
It's next to the one that had food stuck in it , so I won't have to worry about that as much any more
Today , I found out that Chris is leaving the warehouse
Dave is taking his job
I figured he'd be staying at the job forever
Maybe he got a better offer from his family
or he got scared off by the rumors that we're losing our building
Infinity Train is a really good series
Pity it's getting cancelled after just four short seasons
It definitely strengthens my argument that animation is not just for kids
Old games with expanded resolution
This idea was inspired by a YouTube channel , Atlas Videos
What they do is take the small screen resolution of old games 320X480-ish
and have it move over the entire game level on a much larger resolution of today's monitors
It would be a super idea for Nintendo to re-release all of their old games in this format
The game that I think would most benefit from it would be the original Sonic the Hedgehog
It always annoyed me that you couldn't see far enough in front of you when speeding along
The original game played at 320×224
1920x1080 and 3840x2160 are what we're using nowadays
You could fit one hundred Genesis screens on a new monitor
and probably fit the entire Green Hill Zone on one screen
Inspired by a Game Grumps video
Multiplayer , co-operative Tetris
Four sets of tiles fall onto the same field
Everybody has to work together to win the game
Girls und Panzer was one of the first anime I watched when I got my Crunchyroll subscription
I started wondering if you could re-create the tank battles in real life
Obviously you couldn't have real tank battles without killing people
I was thinking we could use golf carts with tennis ball turrets
If you really wanted to recreate the anime , we'd need an entire neighborhood with houses to play in
I think this idea was inspired by stories of police brutality
In the DC comics universe
I get turned into a "monster" by some chaotic magic
I'm still me , but I'm now a tentacle monster
(or a fourty foot giant , or horned demon looking thing)
I'm just trying to live my life in my new form
One day , I'm walking down the street of Metropolis , minding my own business
People are giving me worried looks , then somebody starts screaming
Superman swoops in and starts attacking
I start to back away , and try to explain through my non-human mouth
I think all I want is to be righteously angry and get an apology
I've never been good at remembering people's names
I think it's because names are just arbitrary syllables
If I could just call people by their relation to me
or how I remember experiences I've had with them
I'd have less embarrassing experiences
or maybe more
"hey , neighbor with kids"
"hey , brother I like"
"hey , girl I met on the river that one time"