Taking bets: what did Gerald buy

[PDenbigh]

i still don't understand why everything the guy does has to be a secret.

I do the same thing sometimes, but I don't really intend for them to be secrets. A few reasons for not telling folks prior are:

1. I have enough pressures and questions going on and I don't want to have the additional indrect pressure of living up to what everyone thinks the experience will be

2. A little supersticious, but I don't want to "jynx" the expereience either by sheir bad luck or building it up to more than it will be and then being let down.

3. If I screw up, I don't have 50 people asking me how I screwed up ;-).

4. Maybe G thought that if he posted that he was goign to spend $600 on a course people would have joked on him about other unfinished projects (that in reality most of us have anyhow). Ex Post Facto there's not much we can say other than "cool! You're still alive!"

5. Lastly, had G turned himself into a dark spot on the pavement, he wouldn't have that last milisecond thoguht of "so this is why so many people told me not to. ;-)"