ALA 2018

Got back from ALA today, I'll post pictures on my day off tomorrow. I felt so pretty as Akira, I really should like, try harder to cosplay more in the future. Anyway, didn't get as many lifts as I wanted because my wore my self out too quickly. I'm feeling eager to take better care of my self again going forward with this behind me. It was a stressful con, but in the end I was spoiled to absolute death by my friends and couldn't have asked for a nicer time. Anyway ya'll know who you are, and I love you. I'll upload pictures tomorrow throughout the day.

Give a Man a Fish

Last year Jeff Bezos donated 00.1% of his wealth to charity. At median income if an average Joe donated one one thousandth of their wealth annually, it would amount to a tax deductible $30. Now while 10% of Amazon employees in Ohio are on food stamps I can’t help but wonder... If you can give a man a fish, and call it charity, or teach a man to fish, and call it charity, can you give a man the scraps of a fish you just ate and call it charity? I wonder, if I took the remains of a salmon I ate if the remaining meat still clinging to the bones would constitute a larger or smaller portion of that fish, than say Jeff Bezos’ charitable donations as it relates to his net wealth. I could cook a fish, weigh it, eat it, weigh the bones, clean the bones for a final third weigh in, subtract that total from the first two, and then divide the total boneless weight of the fish against the scrap meat. I could do that, but I feel like even the possibility of a comparison speaks strongly enough for it’s self.

Depression

   Had to go to the ER a couple months ago, had lost a pint and a half of blood. I’m totally a-okay now, but gosh losing like, 10% of your blood will really put you on your ass.    Depression on the other hand will really put you on your ass. It’s been a hard, eh, always. Lately I’ve been thinking “Boy I used to be the person I really wanted to be, why aren’t I that guy anymore?” But the more I think about it the more obvious it is that I’ve never been satisfied, and I think that’s okay. I really should try harder, but it’s hard to do much of anything with the wind knocked out of your chest. I make more money now, I’ve been on some vacations, I can do many of the things I want to do. Life is better than ever but I really want to be more like the kind of person I’d admire. Day to day work life has left me much more spineless than I used to be. Or maybe I was always spineless, and never had to do much to act tough.    I was looking through my blog, and it really struck home, how depressed I have always been. I admire my past post, the embarrassing ones most of all, but it’s so obvious to me, how sad I have always been. Maybe the only solution is to grieve and cry and truck along like a big baby, nothing will get better, nothing will go right, but that’s okay as long as I can chug along and be someone that I can admire. I guess I wouldn’t mind being depressed if I at least had some self-respect or dignity, or goals?

Mt. Lady asked me to lift her on day 2, I was blessed. Gotta say again, everyone was super nice at the meetup. I felt a bit like a jerk for going ham lifting during the photo sets, but what can I say? I get a bit passionate about my hobby. There’s nothing disgraceful about showing passion in what you love to do! Anyway this is my last photo set, like I said before, this was no 300-500 photo con, I took it super easy. We’ll see if I can invent some new poses before the next one!

Young All Might pictures from Day 2, this was my third, and second worst take on the Young All MIght wig, people kept asking me if I was Kaminari, and telling he how great my Kaminari wig was. Words hurt folks. No but really I felt very popular at the gathering, and a compliment is a compliment even if it’s misplaced, at least people are nice. ha ha ha