The Road to the Trilogy - Buying Sushi

 Hello. C J here. This is the first of two posts I have planned today. I’ll type those then I’ll take whatever typing word count I have left and finish up the Chapter One script for Absolute. Absolute has 40 chapters and Chapter One is the first one seen after the prologue. I’ll quote it here once I’ve got more of it done. But first for an important point about how the job I’m doing works on my side. Really the point is about owning a business in the first place. And that point is sushi.

I like sushi. It’s kind of a stereotypical business owner thing to enjoy. I also often get work done at a cafe on a smartphone. There are reasons for this. Sushi is expensive. That’s the reason. I’m aware that as a business person I’m doing good things for the world. I’m making three or more of the best free Android games ever made and also some of the best video games ever made in general. I’m writing novels for free digital distribution. I’m innovating printing technology to get them to print and into the hands of fans and consumers. I’m working hard. So I should buy sushi.

I picked sushi because it’s expensive and really nice to eat. It’s strange Japanese food. I like strange Japanese food. I’ve been working on a recipe for homemade grilled eel, often called unagi don in the original Japanese language, simply because I really like grilled eel. I first tried it though because it’s expensive. Japanese food tends to be that. Expensive. My policy for running Infinity Game Studios is that I’m being nice to other people so I need to be even more nice to myself. And that means spending conspicuously large amounts of money on my own favourite foods.

Unfortunately these dishes tend to involve MSG. I hate that stuff. It’s toxic beyond words. It’s known in most of the Asian world to cause heart palpitations, heart attack and sudden premature death. People who say MSG is ‘perfectly safe’ and that it’s ‘nice umami flavour’ are going to die. Horribly. I hate this. I can’t get good unagi don anymore without that weed killer battery acid stuff put in the sauce. I’m a trained biochemist by the way. Don’t argue with me about this. The chemical makes me violently ill even in small quantities.

Now I have to make all my sushi and grilled fish myself. I’m working on a recipe for grilled fish that has a homemade sauce that is actually made of food ingredients. The point though is that I need to spend money on myself and that this and this alone is the main reason I need money from the products eventually. They don’t cost anything to make at all but I should be rewarded for making them anyway. And that reward should be money that I spend on myself. I need to pay myself in something and that should be only my favourite thing that year.

These days when I have a business accomplishment I get fish and chips from the Copper Penny. The Copper Penny is a restaurant in Downtown Kingston and has like the best fish and chips money can buy. I wish they were more expensive. That’s the point. I know I am being helpful and I should reserve some of that energy to reward myself. I picked food for this. Every time I reach a major milestone I get a nice dinner. And I make great sushi. Like the best. But the rule stands. It’s not expensive enough to count as a celebration. If anyone reading this wants to go into business for themselves then figure out what you want to pay yourself in. Do that first and then figure out what you are selling to do it. Pay yourself first.

C J Mcpherson