tMSS #13

Alojah,

I prepped the majority of the podcast the other night, so I have some time to kill. I figured I wanted to take this moment and write for a bit. I really do enjoy writing, and I wish I did more of it recreationally. However, my schooling calls for so much writing every week that my recreational writing takes the back seat to my professional writing.

That’s sort of the game of life though isn’t it? The recreational things we like to do take the backseat to the things we are mandated to do. We have to pay our bills; that’s the mandate. PAY BILLS!!! We get caught up with the mortgage, then the nice car, then perhaps some college debt, and other miscellaneous debt in general. Along with that, we’ll make some idiotic financial decisions as well. We are then forced onto the hamster wheel of debt, in hopes that the work we put forward will one day payoff and we can exit the hamster wheel of death.

Not really sure what I’ll talk about on the podcast, but, I’ll share some updates of my life via the written art form. Especially since I may forget to talk about some of the things I write here.

My go to drink recently has been the sake I got from Japan. The secret is to add a bit of coconut water and regular water. It reminds me of awamori from Okinawa, but my own version of it. Sake sort of has a bad rep it seems, not sure why. Kind of an old asian grumpy man’s drink. I find it smooth when mixed with the coconut water and regular water. It’s smooooooothhhhhh, maaaaan.

Anyway, working a new “job”. I like it a lot. It’s a much higher level position than I am used to, and I am forced to adopt a global perspective. So much so that I’ve been wrapping my head around the geography of Asia in a way I never thought I would. Goddammit, I should’ve paid attention in high school. Where’s China again? Who owns Taiwan? Why do I want sushi all of a sudden? Wait, that’s Japanese. Wasabi.

Just finished a final inspection of a deal we just closed on. This deal has been an absolute pain in my ass. I was focused on closing on one deal and utilizing the funds from that to assist with closing on this deal. The original deal fell apart and I did everything I could to hold this deal together. In the midst of this, I got that new job talked about above, and a sudden stop in pay did not please the bank gods.

Long story short, I jumped through all the hoops necessary, and at one point had submitted a cancellation of the deal, with minor hope that I could pull it off. However it was saved at tthe last minute, and I got a property I really wanted. All’s Well that Ends Well (Shakespeare), I guess. Wasabi.

Hope all is well in your world. If it isn’t, let me know if I can help in some way shape or form. I aim to modify people’s outlook of life (in academia, it’s called interpretive framework), restructure their finances, get their shit together, and unfuck their lives.

The podcast is below. Enjoy.

Oh and wasabi again.