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I've been doing pretty well on wrapping up minor projects - almost finished my third and final Exalted story segment (writing is hard), wrapped up my writing for the last few sessions of our WoD game "King of Limbs", which has really taught me a lot, cleaning up the structure of my webpage for my own use, really. I took a good amount of time to tear down my work area, clean it and my computer, and reshelf shit on my desk. I've caught up on a lot of yard work since the rainy weather broke for a time. Generally, I feel really good about all that.

We're in the middle of curating our pretty extensive media collection. I mean, hoard. I've been getting progressively more ruthless about what I'm willing to donate and sell, using whether I'll ever actually use it again as my core metric for retention. Most of the things I have, I don't have any emotional attachment to. In fact, setting them in the 'donate' or 'sale' pile has really given me a positive emotional charge. One of the bigger obsticles I've encountered is that people have contacted me about being willing to purchase or accept gifts of games or DVDs, but have been mysteriously silent when I've tried to find out how they want to recieve them from me. Will I see you soon? Would you like me to mail it to you? Cricket chirps. Look man, if you don't want them, I don't know why you bothered to contact me. They're just going back up for sale on a website or something. Anyone here want to take a stab at that shit? I'll post a list in a day or two, maybe, once I've got a new pile finalized.

Actually, the selling of shit is pretty important to me since we've got to make at least poverty level this year or we lose our health insurance. I did some rough calculations and it looks like we'll probably squeak by. The more we can hustle and pad that out, the better I'll feel. The sales are an incredibly minor part of that drive, but I like to feel that I'm contributing on top of cleaning house. The biggest surprise (not the biggest potential payout, but just... surprise) is the relative worth of a Magic: the Gathering paperback novel - Jeff Grubb's The Shattered Alliance, part three of his The Dark/Ice Age/Alliances trilogy from several years back. Used copies tend to retail up from about 25 bucks, while the other two parts of the trilogy sell for about a buck. Weird print run? Who knows. I've checked several sites and that's the case.

Kay also totally got a job and starts Monday or Tuesday next week. Probably minimum wage, part time, but it's really good news for us. We really don't need much to put us in a really good situation for making our ends meet. I'm cautiously feeling optimistic about our situation!