Friends, this is a difficult time for me. Recent events have made inescapably clear the truth that I had hidden from myself, behind a veil of shadows and deception. Perhaps I was only fooling myself. Certainly, I was living a lie.
I have sold out to the man.
You may have noticed my blog turning a bit... corporate-y?
It was the filthy lucre! The proverbial dump truck full of money and Nintendo Wii's! I'm not made of stone!
I have sold my blogging soul out to PayPerPost, for a mess of pottage, valued at $79.00 and growing (at a steady five to ten dollars per post, directly deposited into my PayPal account).
Now, I know I've railed in the past against the sins of corporate corruption of the noble Internet. The noble, noble Internet.
So I hang my head (that is, crane my neck forward, not stage a repeat of Saddam's final performance) and ask humbly for your forgiveness. For both my past and nearly inevitable future corporatey blog posts.
For you see, until I reach my goal -- my hastily conceived and highly wasteful goal -- of obtaining a Nintendo Wii, I will continue. I must continue.
Yes, I have found myself wondering if the Wii is worth it. Would I rather have a green laser pointer and that awesome blue LED faucet adapter from ThinkGeek? Or one of those adapters that turns your faucet into a drinking fountain? Mmm...
And those temptations are very real demons I face each day. I can again only ask for your forbearance as I carry this burden.
To you children, especially, who read and set your stars by this blog -- please understand. I'm not forsaking the higher principles, the higher road of blogging. I've just gone into the bushes to collect some of the gold coins. Like in Legend of Zelda, once you get the blue candle?
That's me. I'm like Link. The bushes are like good blog posts. The blue candle is PayPerPost. See. It's a perfect metaphor. A Perfect Metaphor.
So no more sneaky Facebook wall postings. No more dark alleys and daggers. No more daylight robberies of armored convoys and leaping from the top of the bank and running into the stupid escape zone before I can zoom in and find you again because you were at 100% health and it only takes you down to 30% to make that jump that would have certainly broken both of your legs and probably also severed your spine in real life, especially with all that armor and weaponry you're carrying (plus, where did you put all the gold you stole?).
Have we a temporary deal? I promise. Once I have enough money, I'll return to the paths of truth and light.
(Enough money = (enough that my desire not to write corporate blog posts > my desire for the incremental $5-10))
(And I thought I'd never use math as a grownup...)