finding a job, playing the lottery -- what's the friggin' difference? The odds seem roughly the same. Actually, the odds of winning the lottery are probably better -- I think they're about 1:8 in most states. If I got one in eight jobs I applied for, I'd have 300 jobs by now.

Hey, let's look at the bright side: The odds of hitting the lottery jackpot by buying a ticket are about the same as those of finding a winning ticket in the garbage. If this joblessness thing continues much longer, maybe I'll find a winning lottery ticket whilst foraging through some tasty garbage! The odds of that will surely increase because I'll be spending a lot more time rooting through trash.

I really need to figure out a way to get more money or I'm gonna be in deep shit. A job of some sort would be nice. One thing I won't do is resort to crime. Sleeping under a bridge is preferable to prison. What I'd really like to do is raise some chickens or something. But you need money to get that sort of thing started, and I don't think the wife would be up for it anyway.

Why is money so important? More importantly, why do I never seem to have enough? Just as the weather gets nasty, I'm looking at sleeping under a bridge. Well, that answers my original question: Money is important because it prevents you from having to sleep under a bridge.