Where does your money go? Do you really know? Do you have a nestegg hidden somewhere in case of some horrible accident? Are you out scraping the fountains at the mall to pay for lunch when out with friends? Do you have any clue at all how much you have in your bank account? Do you even have a bank account or do you keep a sock full of quarters under the bed? I am probably one of the worst people to talk about this. I never question whether or not I have cash in my account, or generally in my pocket. I have monthly payments for big things like heat and my car and mortgage, but besides that I owe nothing to nobody. The mortgage is unavoidable. The car payment is interest free. The alcoholism is basically a monthly payment, as is the $250 bar tabs. All these things have to be paid. Then I have to eat and buy gas. Out of all those things I can't give up the food and house and gas to get to work.

I know Bill is going to help me out here with a number of things I may forget, but it is time to mention something that is near and not so dear to my heart (and liver). Back when I was a poor broke student, drinking was something that was done not as just a social experiment, but also as a way to pass time as inexpensively as possible. It was a studied art form to leave the dorm for the walk to the liquor store and come back with a loot bag of the cheapest booze just a thin line away from what the homeless were drinking. I'll admit sometimes it was the same, if not worse, as what the homeless people were drinking - remembering that I watched a person drink bottles of Brut aftershave in the grocery store once.

Yes I’m a day late, I realize that. I am bagged as shit after a ridiculous weekend in Edmonton. I’ll be writing about it later, but the gist of it includes my buddy passed out under a Sobey’s sign at 4am Friday night and then a pub crawl of epic proportions on Saturday night. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to expand those two points and give them the due they deserve. This is going to be a short one, but I thought I better get a post up to keep everyone happy.