tags: luck
1996
January
- 1996 Jan 5
- Untangling a Cassette Tape
Lessons I learned from untangling a cassette tape:
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2001
March
- 2001 Mar 27
- Remembering and Losing
The hazards of being unable to forget. Luck and losing.
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August
- 2001 Aug 22
- Semi-Charmed Kind of Life
Random Chance strikes again. (In the end, I suppose it all evens out, and nothing changes. It sort of frightens me thinking about what sort of horrific situation I’d be in if I didn’t have this meager sort of luck.) If I had met him just a couple of years ago, I would’ve been a writer for sure, damn the consequences.
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2003
July
- 2003 Jul 9
- The Art of Self-Medication
OK, OK, I promise I’ll stop feeling sorry for myself. Or at least I’ll try and cut down.
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2007
July
- 2007 Jul 9
- random epiphanies
Now I’m not one of those sad-sacks who comfort themselves with the idea that “everything happens for a reason.” Lots of things happen for no good reason. Irrationality rules the day most of the time, and if everything in the universe were really premeditated, then God would have to be a psychopath, no question.
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2008
January
- 2008 Jan 31
- breaking even
Down to my last $20, I decided to hang out at the 1¢ slots, betting a measly 18¢ a pop. Over the next hour or so, the slots whittled down my 2,000 coins to a pathetic 200 coins. This was not without its ups-and-downs, though. At first, I kept telling myself that I would quit when I got down to $15. This actually took a while since the machine would intermittently give me 50-80 coins back. But when I hit $15, I decided to keep going, telling myself that I would stop at $10. Again, it was this slow game of attrition. At $5, I moved over to another machine. The slow trickle of coins lost continued. I found myself mulling over the miserable failures and disappointments in my life.
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