Posted 2:13 PM by Alfred

the funny thing about astromedallions is that you never really know exactly how much they're worth. now don't get me wrong, i'm not saying that astromedallions, at least the official ones, are not to be trusted as a standard currency for various transactions over 83 dollars, because, well, an astromedallion is an astromedallion is a... well, you get the picture, each one is worth the same amount. the problem we've encountered with the bean counters over here at the skunk works, however, is the fact that the market for them varies so fantastically from one day to the next, with the weird phenomenon of always coming back to center at one point or another. see, you can always take to the bank that an astromedallion will be worth the amount of what it's worth at some point unknown in time in the past or future, you know, like, the median is guaranteed to be achieved, and usually, within a week or two, see, like, on sunday, if you catch it on a good day, it might be worth like 75 dollars more, or close to double, without nailing me down on a wood plank and forcing me to give you an exact figure, and, inversely, the next day it could drop down to like $5 per unit. No one, at least in this day and age, has any rational explanation for this, but I blame sunspots, not that it matters for the argument, if that's what you would call this, in question. so, getting back to the point, if indeed I strayed off, lots of money is made and lost daily on this standardized tool of commerce, but if you hold it long enough, truly, you know you'll get hooked up, maybe not this week, but almost surely next, and maybe a bonus bag for baby. which begs the question, why would anyone sell and/or buy when the market is tweaked, knowing that eventually, it'll come back to what they need to get their duckets in order and close the deal? and I think I figured it out, it's cuz people are impatient motherfuckers.

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