capital improvements...

i will be mailing the letter today that will resign me from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union #3. Time to cash in my chips and use them for capital improvements. Being a struggling writer has its disadvantages, but being employed under the umbrella of the union for a little less than two years had its advantages. Now i will reap them, upgrade the wardrobe, settle a debt, and plan to counteract new debts. Guerrilla finance at its best...

it is fitting that i have begun this process of legitimizing my writing, sending it off to be judged and cut the ties to another old life, another notch in the belt on and around this time. September 21, which just past, is a watershed day in my personal history. I have made references here and on beingabastardworks.blogspot.com (archives—2005, September 22, do your own research—i have things to do) about how that day itself was an Auld Lang Syne type of day. I consider it a second birthday without any gifts, except for another year on the planet...

maybe i'll get into some day trading, i hear the market's up...