Sigh....

I guess I'm feeling a lil sorry for myself or maybe some self pity, but just wanna share, or get another perspective or sympathy.

I've joined the ranks of those who are house hunting. I'm happy with my job and position, and was approved for what I found to be a very generous home loan to purchase my first home. AAAAAAAAAAND I can't purchase jack shit in semi decent part of town, just daunting.

Then to add to my feelings of misgivings. I was discussing this with a group of friends, and it went further. I was commenting on upcoming litigation for one of them and that with a paper trail of payments a lot of problems could be solved. Then it got into a fight from there. I pay my rent and several bills with checks. When I eat out I usually pay cash. One responded "I've never written a check in my life." or "Who carries cash?" another "I haven't written one in six years." Then when we were eating I got royally pissed off that the venue didn't accept cash. It wasn't posted anywhere, and the waitress seem unsure what the hell to do with the twenty I handed her. SO another argument. It's illegal not to take cash, 'good for all debts public and private'. Cashless society over my dead body.

SO my drive home was very sad and a vicious self immolating circle. Contrary to everyone else, I despise texting as a form of communication, email shouldn't be a primary form of communication, and I'd be happy if digital photography and direct deposit were ripped from the planet and burned in hell for all eternity. I try to think of myself as a torch bearer for some of the older ways that still work, but that doesn't seem the case. I'm just a bitter old ape.

On top of that I talked with buddies about how I lament that there haven't been any animated movies of late, and that old argument came up. I don't mean CGI, Claymation or any hybridization, I mean 2d hand drawn, on cel (which I can forget) or digitally drawn but hand drawn. As well as the death of the American Industry (That the 90%+ work is done in this country. They say in the US you can grow up to be anything, you can no longer grow up to be an animator.... sigh) in the nineties. (For anyone who cares about my unpopular opinion there are only 5 CG movies I like, and 1 is due to writing and 2 solely due to fan service; Zootopia, Wreck It Ralph, Despicable Me 3, Final Fantasy Spirits Within, Final Fantasy Advent Children)

To add to the troubles of the upcoming year is the fight getting any vacation time this year will be.

I'm outta time, anachronistic, bitter, and not happy with current events/state of the world/how it currently works. Speaking of which I am now almost totally lost when using this site, I don't care for how it's been optimized and I'm having so much trouble navigating FA now, it's depressing.

Sorry to vent and share obviously unpopular opinions, just go 'that silly ape' and move on, just in a crummy mood. Thanks for listening to my old ramblings.