Two Styles of Waiting, Explained by 'The Princess Bride'

Update: It has not come to pass, alas.

And dammit.

More vagueblogging, which is my right as an American.

I am waiting, yes. Waiting for news. I'm at the point where no news may actually be slightly better than news that comes via email, which is almost always bad news.

I'm waiting like Inigo Montoya is waiting:

The only other way to wait is like Vizzini himself, but I don't yet have the confidence for that:

I keep stacking up reasons for the thing I'm hoping happens. Yesterday was a hard front on that, and though today has been better, it's not been anxiety-free. Anxiety is normally something I can cope with, but I'm getting tired of this particular brand of anxiety. Hoping something positive happens soonish.

Vagueblogging, Part 2

Ten days ago, vagueblogging.

Today, more of the same. It's related, of course.

I can report it went well, at least this part of it. Maybe there will be more to come.

Here's something I learned after I fretted about it all the way home: Income shown in Box 1 of the W2 is gross pay, before all taxes are taken out.

Probably not revelatory for most of you, but certainly important to me as I navigate the subject of the vagueblogging. I've never been all that good at math, so figuring this out is important to me. And could become more important to me as time passes. We'll see.

Vagueblogging

Going to be a little vague here for reasons.

What's Trump gonna do? See, I have to know. I'm heading into a situation in the next few weeks that could bring his and Elon's zany antics to the fore.

They say they're doing the best for king and country. And I'm not apologizing for the "king." But at the end of the day, they have jobs and wealth to fall back on, while the pawns they're playing with are actual real live people who don't have a daddy's emerald mine wealth to fall back on if everything goes south. There are millions out there cheering them on, but ain't nobody gonna give a rat's ass for me if what I get into goes south.

So when I get into said situation, that's a question I'm going to ask: Wither the Trump rumblings? I'm not at a stage in life nor in a location where I can start a new career. And while I'm not burning bridges in my current situation, I'm not sure how they'll react.

I've got ten or so years to go before retirement can be a possibility, and a lot of bills to pay and money to sock away between now and then. I can't afford a setback. I'm a lot closer to being homeless than being a millionaire, so I don't want to get into a situation where the homeless situation is thrust upon me. Been there once; never going back.

But I don't want to stagnate. I want to move on, and this might be a good opportunity to do so.

Going to have to do a lot of praying. Even if the thing comes into the offing.