Karma
About a month ago, I bought a bag of dogfood. I don’t have a dog, but there’s a homeless guy on the way to work that has two of them. Now, I don’t care how cynical you are when it comes to homeless people (and I’m pretty cynical)… dogs can’t help it if their master is homeless. So, one day on my way home from work, I needed to stop at the Safeway to get some dinner anyway. And the guy and his dogs were there on my way in.
Unfortunately, he was gone when I came out. So I put the dogfood in my trunk for another day. Today, almost a month later, he was back. I needed to get some soda for the office, so I had to stop anyway. On my way back out, I dropped the dogfood in my trunk off with him (No sort of accusatory “What, you’ll feed my dogs but not me?”, just thanks). That put me in a pretty good mood to start the day.
In other, unrelated news, I’ve been laboring over whether or not to go ahead and buy an X-Box 360. On the one hand, I’m about to take 7 days of unpaid leave to go to Greece for three weeks. On the other hand, Madden comes out tomorrow. I didn’t really want to charge anything else big for awhile… but I also didn’t really want to wait much longer to get one (especially with Halo 3 coming out in a month).
When I got home from work today, there was an offer from Circuit City. Spend $499 or more (the X-Box plus tax is about $494) and there’s no interest until December 2009. Now, I fully realize that I’ve already…probably…financed a bit too much. But (prepare for rationalization-speak) this one has a full 8 months after any of the other things have to be paid before I hit its interest-penalty-of-doom.
So now I have an X-Box 360 with time to spare before Madden hits the shelves (of my EA-girlfriend’s company store). Karma.
