Year: 2004

A New Day!

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This Morning

Woke at 6:15! Yes! We gave the dog free reign of the hosue last night so I policed a little bit. Only one urine stand soaked into the wood floor that I could find. Took the dog outside for 15 minutes and she barked and lay in the grass and ate the grass but did nothing else. I brought her back inside and she immediately peed on the floor.

My new tactics! 1) walk her, bring her inside, and immediately take her outside again 2) I’m going to keep her on the lease inside the house immediately after her walks and 3) from her walks she will go straight to her cage then from the cage straight to another walk

We have to at least paper train this dog.

Last Night

Tried to do some more work but my mind would not settle. I decided to spend some time with the wife but I think she would have preferred me be in a different room.

My evenings here are mentally and physically exhausting. By the time everyone is settled in I am too sore and flustered to do anything productive; and my head feels like it is stuffed with cotton. Usually all I want to do is have a beer and settle in for some mind numbing television. Instead I drink tea and listen to the sound of the washing machine and dryer and feel the pressure in my head continue to swell.

Most of the day my house sounds like the background noise in one of those Calgone commercials.

30 minutes of my day in 30 seconds (2.77mb) note: watch the cat. I still have to learn compression.

Watch Amy Count (1 min 10mb)

I’m going to kill my bandwidth!

ok. I’ve done nothing to find money today. No job interviews. No sales calls. No programming.

However, I have found my desktop. I have thrown stuff away. I have sorted mail (some dating back to 2003). And am in the process of getting a grasp on my finances..something I view as important as income is managing your finances.

I still haven’t figured out if I have already paid the money the collector seeks but I am getting in a better position to discuss it.

Tour Bill Gates’ house. This is what my family needs!

You know rebates suck. 1) only 7% (documental fact) of all customers that buy products actually send in their rebates 2) of those 7% the company may or may not send the rebate and a lessor percentage will actually complain

Cingular owes me $200 from rebates and sent a letter on May 18 explaining that “something” was wrong with my receipt. I call the call center and get put on hold only to get a person that regurgitates the words that are in the letter “just highlight your receipt and send it back.” I can’t find the receipt because I had to use it for a repair! I have photocopies of everything else. Cingular will reprint the receipt but you start to question how much hassle is this savings worth. How many years am I taking off my life in stress over $200?! Well right now I could really use that $200!!

The past hour of my life (804kb) plays in 5 seconds. Perhaps a little too fast!

More rain! How pleasant! Heavy too.

Amy loudly “Rain rain rain rain!”

Yahoo! My initial goal is to help settle an account with a collector. I believe I have already paid but obviously the onus is on me to show that and I have become too disorganized to show those kinds of things. I am certain that in these past several years I have double or tripled my debt due to disorganization. I am also certain that I have been double and triple billed on some things.

Anyhow, in cleaning I found my CD of MS Security patches! Working on people’s computers just got easier!

My cat doesn’t appreciate my incense.

Student: Why am I compelled to help others when I cannot help myself?

Teacher: Are you sure you aren’t helping yourself?

A New Day!

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This Morning

I woke in a terrible panic but did manage to pull myself from bed 20 minutes earlier than usual.

Yesterday was all about other people’s problems. Even when I sat down at the computer and committed myself to 2 hours on a very specific task I failed to start the task and helped someone else instead. Mind you, it was rewarding in that I was problem solving and succeeding but nothing I did yesterday contributed to preserving the well being of my family.

This morning I could feel the stress building horribly so I woke the wife early. I don’t like doing that but I was going to crack. It is raining and I can’t get the dog to pee outside. I watch her and when she squats I run her outside but the kids don’t help. They are kids so they are oblivious to what goes on around them.

Since this is an edu and this wonderful tidbit is likely to disappear I’ve take the liberty of reproducing it here. I knew not how to contact the author so I give credit here.