Letters from Washburn Road # 4

I went to the buffet with my mom earlier, and we just got back. The fortune cookie said: Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune time, and I thought to myself: that's almost always true, but how do I overcome that tendency for things, for opportunities to be available when I really can't capitalize on them? and what opportunities should I be on the lookout for, and be prepared for?

I'm reading spam messages from one of these bogus dating websites I signed up for. It's one of those dating sites where you have to pay per message. The obvious thing is that I'm getting tons of incoming messages, and I doubt that these women are really paying a dollar a message to reach out to my incomplete profile. If they were, then I'm making that website a whole bunch of money with my incomplete profile.

What the hell opportunity should I be on the lookout for? I'm thinking that I really want as much overtime as I can get these next few months, and I really think that overtime opportunities are the opportunities that I should be looking out for. When I think about other opportunities that just didn't happen at the right time, graduate school was one of those opportunities that just didn't coincide with the optimal time period in my life to be going to graduate school. I did just get out of the mental health institution, and things were just difficult all around. Then there was the opportunity to get into the software developer program at Amazon, and for some reason there was just always something else that popped up, usually just overtime opportunities.

There is something that I found that I might actually be interested in using some of the software development skills for, I might be interested in using some of my software development skills to convert my blog entries into integer sequences that I can post on OeisWiki or the OEIS Wiki. I vaguely remember how to do this, but it's something like, when the code comes across a certain letter, or character, it returns a specific integer, but there were other things that I remember that I think I can do, like, I think I'm able to turn images into integer sequences.

I'm trying to think. I did look up the subject of DanishCookieUXorious while I was clearing out my old bookmarks, and this was interesting because I really remember her being blonde, and for a minute I wanted to look up that poem I wrote about the bartender on Collins. I could have sworn. It happens over and over again. I could have sworn that person was blonde.

This free time that I'm having is an opportunity, free time is always an opportunity that's. It's the kind of opportunity that I'm unfamiliar with capitalizing on. What do I do?

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Dropping my classes at UTA and withdrawing from the MSQF program is kind of rolling at this point. I thought briefly that, somehow it may have been possible to. I have no idea, stay enrolled, and then attend next semester, and hope for a different outcome, but the odds are really against me. I mean I would have to drive from Las Vegas to Dallas and back once a week if I pursued that course of action, or maybe I would live in Dallas, or maybe I would relocated right back to Texas after relocating to Nevada? A lot of those ideas simply weren't workable.

Even though I set up an appointment to visit the Nevada DMV, it's actually possible to just walk in, without an appointment. I don't know what to do about the whole emissions inspection crap. I don't really think that I actually need to get one, I think that my vehicle is exempt, but I don't want to spend all day at the DMV waiting in line, just to be told to come back, and spend a whole day waiting in line again because I actually do need an emissions inspection.

Reading my horoscope. There is really no consistent message from the various horoscope writers. Sometimes I just look for something encouraging. I remember doing this a while ago, but what I remember is that nothing that I read from the horoscopes really leads me in one direction or another. One horoscope will advise me against doing such and such activity, and another will advise me to be proactive and get involved in such and such activity that the previous horoscope just advised against pursuing. So. Whatever.

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This is actually pretty cool. My work shoes arrived. Um, the other thing that was pretty interesting was that my Assumed Name filings have been registered with Tarrant County, but there seems to be a delay with the Assumed Name filings that I submitted registrations for the with Secretary of State of Texas. A lot of this stuff is kind of unnecessary, I don't really have any buyers for any of my writing, or my content, or anything creative that I've produced.

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I legitimately don't know what the hell to do. I'm really fucking. Like lost here. The best thing. The best idea I have right now is to wait and see, maybe something will pop up. Just work and get settled in. I'm hoping for overtime, it makes it easier to save a larger percentage of my earnings, but I'm thinking, maybe, maybe I might do some gig work or something. Or find a part time second job. I'm irritated that the UTA thing is basically over, but I don't really think that I'm done pursuing graduate school. I'm where to go from here.

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This is actually pretty cool. My work shoes arrived. Um, the other thing that was pretty interesting was that my Assumed Name filings have been registered with Tarrant County, but there seems to be a delay with the Assumed Name filings that I submitted registrations for the with Secretary of State of Texas. A lot of this stuff is kind of unnecessary, I don't really have any buyers for any of my writing, or my content, or anything creative that I've produced.

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