Spiffy Deal!

These days, I don't go out as much as I would like too because of all the work I do at home... which actually is probably more of an excuse than an actually valid reason, but eh, I know that eventually I'm going to run out of the supply of immortally canned food to withstand the Apocalypse and have to go out to shop, seeing as how now my fridge is virtually empty. Maybe it's because of my slight OCD tendencies, but I have problems with buying stuff that isn't at it's absolute lowest price, so for me, shopping is more of a special event similar to a hunt, as in a lion tearing off the leg of the weakest zebra than a weekly chore. I gather up all my little coupon books, head out, and only usually come back with a small bag of items to tie me over. Speaking of which, I really should get a new head of lettuce, my fridge is as empty as a tumbleweed infested wasteland and seriously needs come green and fresh meat.

Regarding my slightly obsessive compulsive nature, I have a few habits that I have realized over time have become exponentially more noticeable, like my extreme preference for rounding off numbers. In my artwork when doing CG, I almost always round off the color numbers I use between the hue, saturation and darkness, it's a rather strange habit, but it does have its uses when I want to mentally catalogue my preferred color pallet, which I tend to do very frequently. I also have the almost so healthy it’s hazardous habit of washing my hands frequently, particularly when I'm using a computer for often little minimal additional effect. Should you ever come to meet me in person, rest assures that you'll probably be shaking one of the cleaner hands out of the world's entire population. Fortunately, I use a good brand of soap, so my hands aren’t dried up and white as a ghost, but still, I wonder how the habit developed in the first place. Strangely though when I think about it, I’ve never had these habits as a child, it’s just something I kind of developed from daily routines, but I suppose that’s how all habits develop… I wouldn’t say that I’ve gone to full blow OCD yet since these habits haven’t yet crossed over to the destructive side of life yet, but I better not follow them too diligently or I might cross that line in the future.

Oh, let’s see… the other day I was pretty lucky. Went to London Drugs to buy some Pepsi and 7-Up on sale with a Star Wars theme, naturally because of the recent release of Star Wars Episode III which I have yet to see as of yet due to work, and I was pleasantly surprise to find out that I wasn’t charged for one of the bottles when I got home. Thank goodness cashiers are only human in this day and age. Not that I saved more than a dollar, but sometimes, it’s the little things in life like this that make an otherwise sucky day good.

On a completely unrelated note, I frequently wonder why on message forums it seems as if nobody ever reads the bloody FAQs. On most of the more important things in life it would be understandable, but on some video game forums, people just completely ignore all the signs that point to answers and head straight to the forums to flood with questions. Now then, there are no stupid questions, but there are lazy ignoramuses and impatient know it alls and between the two of them exists every problem in human society. It actually doesn’t bother me that much as I’m advertising, but I frequently wonder why some people would rather leave themselves out as flame bait and whine when nobody answers their question rather than do the research on their own, especially when it is in fact a Frequently Asked Question, as opposed to the obscure bizarre question from Hell. Well, I guess everyone is different, but that’s like saying well I think pretzels aren’t donuts, it’s a obvious truth that everyone knows but few think about.

While I’m on my hate rant, why is it that people have such natural problems following instructions? Well, I’d have to say that I often fall into that category as well, but it just yanks my chain when people start saying that they need or want some information, but apparently don’t need or want it enough to go through two links to find it and rather become big flaming targets on open boards. Now then, sometimes though, the most ignorant people end up being the nicest, and the most knowledgeable end up being ungrateful pricks after you try to help them out, but eh, for every good thing in life, there is an equally crappy thing to make it stand out, so I can’t complain too much when I get a bad hand in life, since I know for a fact that there are a lot of people who got it much worst than I probably ever will know. For all purposes, I’m one of the people who likes to answer questions, so long as the people asking are polite, but having seen some of the more jaded people in internet society, I frequently wonder if there will be a time when even my patience runs thin… Hmmm… I should get a job in customer service and see, hahahahaha.