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@3:10am I think I'll try to get some shut eye.

You can't really stay up until three in the morning and expect to get up early feeling rested. Mom called. Boy are my arms and shoulders tight.

I thought of two brilliant ideas I would have liked to have jotted down, I even visualized writing the words into this text box. Oh well. I did think of one on my way home that I can recall.

My Heart Is A Shapeless Void

Work was pretty great! I talked to Matt about my parent company and it's subsidiaries, and things went over fairly well between the rest of the girls and I.

There, I've just messaged my siblings about blogging. Mom woke me up this morning. I called nonna before work. It was nice. Gramma's due for a call pretty soon. I'm still undecided over the assessment session with Nav Canada. I should find out if I'm available and reply shortly.

Tomorrow should be a very productive day. I suspect to leave most of my chores until I get up, then once everything is in order, dive into my RDA review. I have a midterm on Tuesday. The following week I'll be presenting my major seminar for Advanced Topics in Social Psychology. That is going to take some serious concentrated effort to get ready. All the while chem is going to be nickle and dimeing me to pieces. I think I have enough momentum in chem to hold them off until the 1st of April, which reminds me, I have some cash I can put on my VISA.

I picked up a bunch of weekend shifts that will improve my financial situation entering May by probably about 500$. Every 500$ I put on my VISA brings my minimum payment down 10$, which is why I'm drying up my pay out account instead of leaving any surplus and dragging out the interest. Ideally I'll have my living expenses covered and be making full payments on my student debt (about 800$/mth) with less than 2000$ left on my credit card going into June. We'll see how it goes. I usually end up better off than I predict because my predictions reflect the lowest degree of achievement I'm allowed.

My financial goals are much higher, though they require that I manage my resources wisely, and at the moment my stability allows for very tiny increments.

I just dumped over 800$ onto my VISA, which brings it to a little under 2500$. I'd like my payment forcast to be 800$, 100$, 500$, and 1000$. If I could pay off my VISA any way I like, that's how I would pay it off. I'm comfortable with those units, especially the 500$ unit, I love 500$ units. Beyond that, 12 000$ units are pretty sound investments (sounds like the price tag on a professional musicians gear), and afterwards we're looking at vehicles, property, and salaries.

Low, Medium, and High

Here we are, all cleaned up. Tomorrow I'd like to get to my floor. I'll proabably make my bed, and start organizing the items strewn about until things seems neat enough to allow the broom to pass.

While I was showering I was thinking about the logistics of giving Gessi a job. Taking him on as an employee I would have to use his work to create some greater value that can be invested so that in time the investment not only increases the worth of the company but also improves his salary incrementally until he retires. Ideally I think all full-time permanent positions should operate on such a model.

In Gessi's case, that of a 3D modeler, his models need to be used in such a manner as to create value, a value substantial enough to make his employment sustainable. It's hard to imagine the sustainability of an artists vocation, unless his art fullfills some need.

It seems to me as though the 3D modeler's primary market is made up of consumers of entertainment media. There are side markets, as Gessi's experience clearly shows. He did some work modeling for military training simulators and I think he did some flash tutorials. The educational market.

I am a fan of the idea of becoming a producer of edutainment.

I was just thinking about the primary competition to consumable entertainment media: outdoor recreation. Combining the two types of interests identifies the niche market I started after coming up with GHi and the VGV. Think of all the people who use cell phones, iPods and the like whiley the jog, walk, drive or workout? It would be very challenging to hit up the sports market: tennis players, golfers, baseball players, people who play hockey. It would be interesting to invent a technolgy that everyone could use all the time to enhance their interaction with the world around them, lowering the cost of living and increasing the benefit of membership, for everyone onboard.

I'd love to become a session guitarist. Or perhaps a traveling minstrel.