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My hemming and hawing over Far West continues.

It’s really just another example of the situation that I constantly struggle with, in my day-to-day work: Do I work on something that has the *potential* to be greatly rewarding, both personally and perhaps financially (doing FW as a novel; working on fiction in general), or do I instead do something *right now* that is sure to make me immediate income (doing FW as a 4E setting; working on gaming stuff in general), albeit it most likely less than the other option?

Do I actively pursue the goal of my lifetime, or do I shelve it for the quick (and lesser) return? It’s not an easy decision — especially given the variables involved. The game material I produce is a guarantee of income, however small. The fiction would be a larger gamble — it could work out…*IF* I get an agent…..*IF* a publisher picks it up….*IF* it actually sells…etc. etc.

I remember when and I were discussing our moving options in 2003. We were living in New Jersey, and I said “I didn’t move back to the NYC area to live in New Jersey.”

That’s a bit what I feel like right now — Gaming is New Jersey.

I don’t want to wake up in late middle age and realize that I spent my life going for the immediate safe income, and never did what I wanted to do — I don’t want to realize that I’d stayed in Jersey, and NYC was just across the river the whole time.

McCain just referred to the people of the United States as “my fellow prisoners.”

He’s losing his damn mind.

PLEASE OH PLEASE let the mainstream media run away with this.

“Yes or No question: Is Russia EEEeeeeeevil?”

Seriously, Brokaw? That’s the best you can do? You interject your own question, and that’s it? The world isn’t black-and-white, chucklefuck.

Given that Brokaw is a liaison of sorts between NBC and the McCain campaign, and given that Brokaw was apparently the spearhead and the impetus behind removing Olberman from election and debate coverage, I suppose it could have been much worse. I suppose it would have been more difficult to ask questions with McCain’s dick in his mouth.

One other point: “That One.” I’ve heard it used by senior citizens before — and almost always in reference to blacks. Odd that he slipped like that.