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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarrasque Wrangler" data-source="post: 1085936" data-attributes="member: 7473">Jeeze, this thread's turning into a country song.  I got laid off, my best girl ran off, and my liver's done turned off.I didn't get a chance last night to talk about good things going on for me, so here goes:Despite having a booooooring job, I can't really complain about any other aspects of it.  At worst, it's just really easy.  But I don't have a crappy micromanager boss or tedious office politics to deal with, which is a big step up for me.I've been getting a lot more exercise, and it didn't take long for it to get easier.  You walk a few times a week, and pretty soon it's like nothing.  When I started a couple months ago, I could barely get around the track at my neighboring schoolyard without pausing to catch my breath.  Now I do 2, 3 laps easy.  I wish I could say it's led to big weight loss, but I have to work on my diet more.  My girlfriend has been very supportive in all regards, and continues to generally be a ray of sunshine.Thanks to my nascent blog (everyone go visit, link's in my sig) I've been doing a LOT more writing, which is what I really want to do with myself.  I'd been calling myself a writer for years without really, y'know, writing anything.  It feels good to have an easy way to express my thoughts the way Blogger allows me to, and I've been pleased with the positive feedback I've been getting.  Now, to turn blog into bucks.  Hmm.  Yeah.I've had the opportunity to game a little more, and it's been great fun.  I'm looking forward to ways I can use AU and Midnight and all the other awesome purchases that have lain fallow for too long.I'm finally managing to get out from under these monumental debts accumulated from the last 8 years.  Who knows, I might even have a bank account by the end of the year.  And yeah, I know the irony of being a bank employee who can't open a checking account. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> So, life is fine.  Not spectacular, but the only people I know who lead such lives are living them at the expense of someone else.  So at least I can say, "No animals were harmed in the making of my life."</blockquote>

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