Title: Cheap Luck, and Cheap Tricks for Sleeping
I feel surprisingly refreshed, though I have fitfully forced three hours of sleep into me during the last 24 hours. I hear it takes a few days before total exhaustion takes over, and one sleeps like the dead. I can't wait. Sounds peaceful.
Weirdest thing happened. Raven, the roommate I mention so often, noted once before that I was his good luck charm, and good things happened to him while I was around. It happened again. He got another job interview, and our lottery tickets both won. I won $10, he won a free ticket. Hey, i'll take it.
You know the drunken jackass I mentioned awhile back? As I cleaned floors last night, I saw him pass by with his group of friends. They were sober this time, and they saw me. But you know what they did? They had the nerve to laugh at me! The gall! After how I saw them, I feel less the fool and more the wraithful git whom thirsts for their blood.
(Artistic license alert!)
But I calmed down when they left.
I thought more of my plan on how the hell to get out of my dreary situation. Raven suggested I try to start my own business. However, i'm drawing blanks. But it worked for Aya, and it worked for a bunch of my classmates. Why not me? So I thought of some ideas...
And thought...
And thought....
It came to me. I like RPG's and gaming, right? Therefore, a gaming store would be fun and profitable. However, Calgary already has a store called "The Sentry Box", which is the largest in western Canada. There are also some smaller stores, as well as two Games Workshops (Horseshit should be familiar with those, they're more numerous and popular in the UK). So, Calgary is flooded.
Regina, a city near my hometown (and a dive at that) lacks some of these stores (but has one GW). Their major store, Mind Games, was successful for a time, and even had two locations. But sadly after TSR went out of business (and before Wizards of the Coast bought it), so did Mind Games. The reason was that Mind Games heavily depended on the sales of their Dungeons and Dragons products. TSR didn't print any more books, and Mind Games went out of business before D&D 3rd Edition came out in full force.
So, unless nobody else exploited this power vacuum... I just might have a working idea. And I wouldn't just be selling to a city. People from surrounding towns all over southern Saskatchewan went to Mind Games for their RPG needs.
I might have to sacrifice teaching english in Japan, but at least I can still do writing in the meantime. Oh... the choices...
I feel surprisingly refreshed, though I have fitfully forced three hours of sleep into me during the last 24 hours. I hear it takes a few days before total exhaustion takes over, and one sleeps like the dead. I can't wait. Sounds peaceful.
Weirdest thing happened. Raven, the roommate I mention so often, noted once before that I was his good luck charm, and good things happened to him while I was around. It happened again. He got another job interview, and our lottery tickets both won. I won $10, he won a free ticket. Hey, i'll take it.
You know the drunken jackass I mentioned awhile back? As I cleaned floors last night, I saw him pass by with his group of friends. They were sober this time, and they saw me. But you know what they did? They had the nerve to laugh at me! The gall! After how I saw them, I feel less the fool and more the wraithful git whom thirsts for their blood.
(Artistic license alert!)
But I calmed down when they left.
I thought more of my plan on how the hell to get out of my dreary situation. Raven suggested I try to start my own business. However, i'm drawing blanks. But it worked for Aya, and it worked for a bunch of my classmates. Why not me? So I thought of some ideas...
And thought...
And thought....
It came to me. I like RPG's and gaming, right? Therefore, a gaming store would be fun and profitable. However, Calgary already has a store called "The Sentry Box", which is the largest in western Canada. There are also some smaller stores, as well as two Games Workshops (Horseshit should be familiar with those, they're more numerous and popular in the UK). So, Calgary is flooded.
Regina, a city near my hometown (and a dive at that) lacks some of these stores (but has one GW). Their major store, Mind Games, was successful for a time, and even had two locations. But sadly after TSR went out of business (and before Wizards of the Coast bought it), so did Mind Games. The reason was that Mind Games heavily depended on the sales of their Dungeons and Dragons products. TSR didn't print any more books, and Mind Games went out of business before D&D 3rd Edition came out in full force.
So, unless nobody else exploited this power vacuum... I just might have a working idea. And I wouldn't just be selling to a city. People from surrounding towns all over southern Saskatchewan went to Mind Games for their RPG needs.
I might have to sacrifice teaching english in Japan, but at least I can still do writing in the meantime. Oh... the choices...