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Monday, January 01, 2007
Things to do before the 8th
This is a list of things I need to do before I go back to my 12-hour-a-day jobs. I wanted to start in on them last week, but spent most of it working or being with my family.

  1. Set up the stereo so that it has a line going to the bedroom speakers, for night-time music as well as wake-up music.
  2. Finish sorting paper. I have a box full of mostly financial files that need to be sorted and filed. Finished in May
  3. Find a new host for my homepages.
  4. Empty out the 401k from my old school.
  5. E-Mail and/or find a bunch of people I've lost touch with: Marla, Stephanie, Dave, Eric, Jen, Chris, and Joe at the least.
  6. Do some credit card balance juggling. Yay?
  7. Call PrivacySource; they have good services (relating to one's credit rating) but they charged a full years' service at once when they said they'd do it in increments. Turns out it's because of the way I signed up - but they were very nice and arranged to have it set up in payments and to refund the money. Yay for corporations that take care of their customers!
  8. Update and/or dispute various information on my credit report. Done in May
  9. Re-enter a few years' worth of financial data from the Discover card into Money. Done in May.
  10. Look into getting the truck's gas tank cleaned. Performance Radiator does it for $85, but I'll have to detach it myself. 3-5 day turnaround.
  11. Fix Leelu's clutch cable and starter.
  12. Record the vocals for the song Caravaggio.
  13. Record the vocals for the song Heathen.
  14. Pick up the basketball game and holiday photos from Walmart.
  15. Make a maintenance schedule for both vehicles: when to replace, fill or otherwise maintain everything in both cars (brakes, oil, as well as a list of all pertinent phone numbers such as tow numbers, insurance, et cetera). Finished in June (!)
  16. Post and sell/give away our filing cabinet, ceiling fan, printer, and monitor. Sold!
  17. Record our old cassette tapes into the computer.
  18. Sell the cassette player, refurbished chest, small white chair, and large blue chair to Bookmans.
  19. Use Bookman's trade to buy Rachel's computer.
  20. Put on the VW's white seat covers.
  21. Get at least 90% of my homepage set up.
  22. Get my Impulse Designs page set up.
  23. Update Outlook to include my friends' and relatives' birthdays.
  24. Go through the boxes of sentimental stuff in the closet and purge.
  25. Wash and waxbothvehicles; they haven't had a good wax in forever.Leelu
  26. Make a cathouse for the kitties out on the patio.
  27. Clean the patio.
  28. Do the dishes.
  29. Do some serious grocery shopping.
  30. Vacuum the apartment.
  31. Do the laundry.
  32. Post my previous blogs to this blog. Finished in June (!)

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Friday, January 13, 2006
A Funny Thing Happened Today no. 6: Credit card companies = Satan's minions
Further proof of the Diabolical nature of credit card companies:

Today, Rachel got an offer for a credit card. Fine, that happens daily. But I'm pretty sure this was the single worst offer I'd ever seen.

APR (Annual Percentage Rate): 23.99 r> Startup Fee: $50
Monthly (!) Fee: $10.95 ($131.40/yr)
Minimum Finance Charge: $0.50

So, let's say Rachel actually got this and bought one $0.50 popscicle every month for a year with it.

Startup Monthly fees = $181.40
Finance charges = $.50 x 12 = $6
Interest = ~$35

For twelve fifty-cent popscicles ($6 in merchandise), she'd pay about $222. Now, if you could excuse me, I'm going to go and visit the executives at Applied Card Bank, Wilmington DE. With a blunt object.

Currently listening :
Cowboy Bebop
By Yoko Kanno

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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Exciting Event no. 6: TV!
That's right.

I GOT A BIG TV NOW COS I RULE RAWR!

Actually Rachel got it from work on our trade credit so we got a 27" TV in exchange for a bunch of crap we didn't want anyway and that rules so once again RAWR I/WE RULE.

Especially because this is in the middle of a massive financial crisis. I love the idea/irony of getting the biggest TV of my life a few hours after telling a credit agency to go #%*!! themselves because I (honest to God) didn't have the money.

Currently listening :
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
By Coheed & Cambria

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