Thursday, December 20, 2012

Tactical Matters on the European Front

Lotho was less than pleased over the lackadaisical approach to the tactical situation in which there are three key features:  cold house, rain riding and not eating much.  All of that is true but it's not out of being lackadaisical about it as there's really no choice.  Georgia is tough and sweet but the latter doesn't mean I don't have to pay her.

Lotho as he has in the past is doing a huge thing to save my ass but at least this time there's what I really believe is a realistic chance to pay him back.  What he's doing won't pay off Georgia but it's a huge help and it wouldn't do to say exactly what that means except generally that no-one knows the spirit of Christmas better than he and Mrs Lotho.  What he's doing will hopefully get me over the hump between now and getting started playing again in Second Life where I'll work my ass off given any opportunity to do it.

The biggest question from Lotho and I imagine any of the regulars is whether Greece really is feasible and I believe it is so long as I don't go lusting after expensive toys and/or expensive women (laughs).  By expensive women, I don't mean hookers but rather a lady who would prefer to be escorted in the evening by a fellow who wears something a little nicer than blue jeans or pajama bottoms.

(Ed:  so that means you won't be dating anyone?)

Correct (laughs).

I'll pull €600 from the U.S. bank each month and that'll leave about $70 US.  Hopefully that doesn't get touched in the month and that becomes the savings plan.  Out of the €600 comes €300 for rent and the remainder is survival.  The biggest killer to that in multiple ways is a pack of Marlboro cigarettes.  I started smoking in part from seeing my ol' Dad do it so it makes sense to take as much guidance from him in how he stopped.  His birthday is Christmas Eve so that seems like the appropriate day to make my move.  As he said, "It's a silly way to die."

I'm already a certified Euro with the UK passport and tomorrow I should be a certified Greek resident Euro when I get a card from the cops.  That'll let me legally sign papers such as a contract for a landline to get DSL to get online and that will cost €23 per month.  Even with my budget that's a good value so I'll be doing that for sure.

My intentions are to do as I have in sharing this as much as possible through pictures and stories along with music on the podcast.  I may do digital releases of CDs as it's not expensive to do that but we'll see how that goes.  It's all toward the Theory of Propagated Goodness.  It may not necessarily come back to you but it will come back to someone and that's not a bad thing at all.

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