A Confession...

     I admit it.  I have a problem.  I can't control myself.  I just feel so damn good when I'm doing it!  It's an addiction and I blame our materialistic-oriented society.  No, I blame myself.  Put a few beers in me and before you know it I'm on Amazon buying all sorts of shit I don't need, or really want (I'll explain the latter later.)

At first, I'll log on looking for a good read to expand my library.  Usually it's a Stargate Novel or some Terry Pratchett hard-cover edition from England.  One of my most recent purchases was a $30 Stargate:SG-1 board game that I just had to have, even if I don't have any friends to play it with.  I'm about to play it by myself 'cause I'm that much of a geek.

     $30.  Not bad.  Ain't gonna break the bank.  But that's where they get you.  Spend $50 and you can get "FREE SHIPPING!"  Well, fuck.  What's another $20.  So now I'm adding a couple more books to the cart.  Oh, look at this CD they recommended for me, this shit looks awesome!  Add it!  Before long I'm looking at about $200.  Still, ain't too bad...until it arrives on my doorstep.

     Once I thought I was ordering MLB: The Show (baseball video game) for the PS3.  When it finally arrived I was so excited, till I opened it up and saw it was for the PS2.  Dumb-ass.  If you don't play video games you may be saying to yourself "yeah, so?"  Understandable.  Here's another one...

     Growing up I loved the Disney movie "The Black Cauldron."  Read the book.  Always wanted to own it.  So when I saw it available on DVD on Amazon 20 some-odd years later I just had to have it!  Imagine my surprise and heart-breaking disappointment when I opened up the box from the post office to find a fucking VHS tape.  Really?  VH-fucking-S?  For $20???  Fuck me.  I later found out it's available for rental on Netflix, which I subscribe to.  Watched it.  Not as cool as I remembered it to be.  Again, I suck. 

     This last time around, as previously mentioned, I bought the Stargate:SG-1 board game in addition to 6 more Stargate novels.  And, of course, I bought 2 copies of the same book.  God Damn It!  The complications of shopping on-line whilst drinking. 

     The cool thing is when the mail comes it's like Christmas.  You get all the presents that you always wanted.  Granted, you bought them, but thanks to the glorious effects of alcohol, you forgot.  Once again, alcohol helps one make decisions an otherwise indecisive, insecure, tentative human being would never make.

Here's to being single.  And alone.

gII