I got an email saying I successfully paid off my mortgage
I'm not going to announce it until I get the deed sent to me
I was expecting to have to send them a payoff letter
It's six months until my fiftieth birthday
Apparently, Annie and the family are planning to come to the campgrounds and tubing
I'm a bit concerned that I won't be able to have my kind of fun if I have to stick with them
I got an email saying I successfully paid off my mortgage
I'm not going to announce it until I get the deed sent to me
I was expecting to have to send them a payoff letter
I checked all of my lottery tickets since last April
On one ticket, I matched four numbers and won $200
I've wondered a couple of things about the spelling of my name
Is "jeremy" supposed to be "je remy" ?
Maybe french for "I am Remy" ?
I think Remy is a french name
I've also noticed that "eremy" is one letter away from "enemy"
I've been thinking that I'm lucky that my personality traits seem to compliment each other
I'm slothful, but pride and greed are not my sins
I'm fine with living in a small not-luxurious house
I don't need to earn a lot of money to maintain my standard of living
It doesn't matter that I didn't graduate from college and get a high paying job
I'm unsocial which leaves me alone to enjoy my games comics and cartoons
Learning to live inexpensively means I can put a lot of my money int savings
and I more appreciate the infrequent pleasures I do get
I've never wanted to create new humans, which works because no woman has expressed a desire to fuck me
I recognize I have hoarding tendencies, and I fight against them
Which is made easier by the fact that I don't make enough money to buy a bunch of stupid crap
I don't like to throw away things and fill up land fills
so I don't buy a bunch of stuff I won't use and can't afford
Today was the first big snow of the year
It snowed all last night
I jumped out of bed at 5:30am when my alarm went off and started shoveling
I piled up the snow in the front yard, and spray painted "LET IT SNOW" on it
It was still dark when I started shoveling
I started to panic as it got lighter, because I knew that the humans would start waking up
The best kind of human is an unconscious human
I've come up with an idea for a manga
"Maid Guild"
The idea was inspired by hyper-competent maids in other manga
The premise is that the maid's guild is a place that employs and hires out maids
Set a time of kings and castles
If you've got a large house and need to hire a maid, you go to the maid guild
The maids are highly trained from a young age
serving, cleaning, proper etiquette, defense
If a client abuses the maids, the guild will ban them from their services
Then they will have to hire "scabs", which is a shameful practice
There might be some interaction with the "butler's guild"
I'd prefer an anthology of smaller stories not focused on one character
Last night, I heard a rattling sound coming from my furnace
I determined that a critter had gotten into the exhaust pipe
It stopped making noise, so I hoped it found its way back out
This morning, I found a small brown bird banging on the bathroom window
I thought I could be as cool as the people on youtube that snatch a bird in their hand
but I hesitated too much
I finally managed to get it out the window
Now I have to clean up all of the bird poop from the bathroom floor
The snow I piled up in the front yard has been attracting the kids coming off the buses
They climbed on it and ruined my decorations
I hope their clothes get stained with the orange paint
Now that I've paid off my mortgage
I should have an extra $1000 to spend every month
I'm going to start dumping a bunch of money into my 401k
I've got about $40,000 in there right now
If social security is still there in fifteen years
I might actually be able to retire
But I'll probably be dead by then
On Youtube, I've found a bunch of AI generated stories read by a robot
The stories generally follow a pattern of
OP is wronged in some way, and gets ostricised by their family
Then the family comes begging for forgiveness when the truth comes out or OP makes a bunch of money
My favorite version of this is
Golden chilen sibling sleeps with OP's SO
OP runs away to the other side of the country
The golden child is finally recognized as an asshole
and OP is a millionaire
Now the family is begging OP for money
The other story type I like is
OP is accused of a crime (theft or assault)
OP is chased out of the family
Later, the actual criminal is determined
Family begs OP for forgiveness
I think the reason I like these types of stories is that in this case, OP has every right to be righteously angry
They were wronged, and the villains deserve whatever fate is coming to them
In my life, I often feel angry or frustrated, and I want to give somebody a beating
but either I can't find the exact person who deserves the beating
or the crime isn't deserving of a beating
This morning, Joel called every body in for a meeting
It turns out that Ford is cutting the IT budget, and isn't replacing as many computers as they usually do
So PCR had to let a bunch of people go -- Jesse, Justin, Kreeshaun
I'm glad I made the cut, but I really should update my resume
For many years, I've had a webcam in my bedroom, pointed at myself
It's an old laptop running Windows 7
It takes one picture every two minutes and saves it to the hard drive
The battery on the laptop is dead, so I have to fight with the BIOS resetting all the time
I wanted to install an SSD instead of the HDD
I found an old copy of Windows 7 and reinstalled it
It took me forever to find the old drivers in needed
It creates 720 pictures per day
It will be many years before the hard drive fills up
I'm imagining a day that I need an alibi for some crime I'm being accused of
and I'll ask "what day and time?"
and I'll provide them with a timestamped picture of myself