Cold calls to real estate companies begun. So far, it hasn’t been the horrid experience I expected it to be!
Year: 2004
Bank went negative on Friday while I sat on a $75 …
Bank went negative on Friday while I sat on a $75 insurance check. Immediately incurred $5 (transfer fee from overdraft) + $12 (continuous overdraft fee for Sat and Sun) + $6 (continuous overdraft fee for yesterday) totaling $23 in fees so far.
No foreseeable income in the near future. The projects I have won’t pay by Friday. Immediate expenses:
Power company $550 by Friday or they shut us off
Car insurance overdue $120 (in our state I think the penalty for driving without insurance is that you lose your license for a year…which just means we end up with a bunch of unlicensed and uninsured people driving around)
Telephone by Friday $140
Garbage service $90
One company threatening lawsuit to collect $600-1000
There are others but this is depressing. How does anyone ever get out from a situation like this? I know. I know. Get a job. Damn it’s said that done!
This is obviously all my fault and all within my control but at same time it is so overwhelming and overpowering.
Back to coding.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Why does everyone fight me?
Master: You have no plan. Who could possibly help you?
From the President’s mouth
Bush also said high taxes on the rich are a failed strategy because “the really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway.”
The original AP article. Political Wire’s Quote of the Day which actually puts it in context.
A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…
A New Day!
Let’s start the day off with a PayPal donation link:
This Morning
I want cameras in my house!
Woke this morning at 6am and walked the dog. Of course she eventually got bored and started to yip so I brought her inside with intent to take her right back out. Instead I got to brewing my coffee and she made her a breakfast snack. Fortunately I stopped her before she chowed down too much. After I get a paycheck from somewhere I’m going to lease her for 3 days and she is going to remain by my side until she learns that stuff goes outside!
I had intended to have a snack with the wife and when she started to drift off I was going to work through the nite. Blast if I didn’t fall asleep! At least I woke earlier than usual.
From the mouths of babes
Amy, Molly and I go for a walk. We get to the end of the street and Amy walks up to a tree, covers her eyes with both hands, leans toward the tree, and counts to five.
Where does she learn this stuff?! (television and siblings)
Education
I suppose our schools could be worse: School’s lessons full of errors
Lockyer said the curriculum consisted of a slim workbook riddled with errors, including:
- The United States has 53 states but the “flag has not yet been updated to reflect the addition of the last three states” — Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico.
- World War II began in 1938 and ended in 1942.
- There are two houses of Congress — the Senate and the House, and “one is for Democrats and the other is for the Republicans, respectively.”
Presidential Outsourcing
OUTSOURCING JOBS REACHES NEW HEIGHTS
Congress today announced that the Office of President of the United States will be outsourced to overseas interests as of September 30th, the end of this fiscal year. The move is being made to save $400K a year in salary, a record $521 Billion in deficit expenditures and related overhead. “The cost savings will be quite significant” …
“I am excited to serve in this position,” Mr. Singh stated in an exclusive interview. “Working nights will let me keep my day job at the American Express call center. I always knew I could be President someday.”
Well Spoken Bush
President does comedy and scores laughs
ok. Our news casters wear earpieces so that the director, producer et al can speak into their ear. Shouldn’t our president have advisers speaking directly into his head? Perhaps just enough to say, “Ok George! Shutup!”
Of course I could see him holding his head nodding, noddling, say ‘yes. ok. that’s good’ then addressing the crowd “my answer is….” Then saying something like, “No, all my thoughts are my own.”
Progress!
Wahoo! I programmed and made go progress. More to come but I need to balance tasks. I’ve started putting information into FutureStep and need to continue. These things are time consuming. I am ready to make sales calls but its lunch time.
3 hours and 15 minutes ago I sat down to do 3 hour…
3 hours and 15 minutes ago I sat down to do 3 hours of programming. I guess I should start now.
Cost of War
This is interesting. Like like seeing how many teachers we could have hired.
A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…
A New Day!
Let’s start the day off with a PayPal donation link:
This Morning
This is planning day. It should be a day of rejuvenation and cleansing. Instead it will be a half day of horseback riding and then probably family social needs. It needs to be house cleaning, computer work for clients, office work, home repair, and gardening.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: As I succeed something always knocks me back down.
Master: Perhaps you should redefine “succeed.”
All the multimedia messages below were supposed to…
All the multimedia messages below were supposed to have pictures. Find them at Phlog.net. I’ll copy the pictures over soon.
Time to rest.
