I got my car back today. It was a lot cheaper than I was quoted, I got a quote of $991, but the exact cost was $845. It isn’t a bad price considering that they need to take out the engine to put it in, so I am happy. My car sounds a lot better, so I should be able to go to New York whenever the paperwork comes, which will hopefully be soon, because Krissy and I are getting very impatient with this.
I work from home, and let me tell you, it is great, even more luxurious than I could have imagined. I don’t need to shower, or brush my teeth before I start the day, I can stay in my boxers, and most importantly I don’t need to spend money on gas going to and from work. It really is a dream come true. I just happened to kind of fall into my job, but you don’t need to wait to fall into yours anymore.
Courtney Raymond Consultants offers a free program for you to work from home. There is nothing to buy, and training if free. This is definitely a unique opportunity and if you have ever dreamed of working from home, then this might be the perfect solution for you. All you need to have is a home phone and decent phone skills. The hours are very flexible and the pay is very good. Now you too can enjoy sitting at home in your underwear working, without spending the time and money to go to an office, a warehouse, or anyplace else. If you have ever wanted to work from home then this might be something to look into.
I added some new characters that were in the third movie to the Spiderman Characters section. I am hoping to have the synopsis of the third movie up and running after the DVD comes out, this way I can watch it and take screenshots and whatnot. For those of you who dont know the DVD comes out on October 30th.
I am leaving to bring my car into the mechanic. I just hope that I have enough money to get it fixed, and that I don’t have to take out a Bad Credit Loan. I mean they are fine, but they usually require a cosigner because the main borrower has such bad credit. I tried to looking into secured loans, but that would mean I would need to put my car up as collateral, and I don’t want to do tha, if anything I would just get a car loan. At least with Secured Loans UK I can look at all my options before doing anything drastic, that is the good thing about having websites like those, they show you all your options without pressuring you into anything.
The credit card they sent me was already preactivated and had a $200 charge on it that I was expected to pay. There was also a $40 charge each year for having it. I don’t know about you, but that is ridiculous. As son as I got it, I called them up and canceled it because I wasn’t going to pay that. I didn’t have to for my other cards, why should I have to for this one.
I don’t think I would have minded paying it if I had a higher credit limit though. They only gave me $250 credit limit, and when I got it there was already $200 on the card, so essentially I only had $50 to use. Plus when I called them up to cancel it they told me that I had good credit and I could reduce it by $80, which just pissed me off even more because they are trying to screw me over.
With the prospect of moving soon, I am trying to save as much money as I can, and I am starting to plan on how to save as much money as we can once we are all moved and settled in. The one thing that comes to mind is saving on the electric bills. Now I am planning on having my computer on most all the time, it is what I do now, but in order to do that we are going to have to cut costs elsewhere. I am thinking about instead of using normal lighting for the outside, I might try some LED landscape lighting. It doesn’t cost that much in run and it will really make our place stand out.
I had a lot to do the past few days for work and it was really stressful. I mean I am good with deadlines, but they are just nerve racking. I mean there was no chance that it wouldn’t be done when it needed to be, but just looking at the amount of pages I had to code was just a bit overwhelming. I mean I did the right thing, I didn’t let it consume my life by spending every waking moment on it, I did about four to five pages everyday for a couple of days, while still taking time out to have some fun. It’s just that sometimes deadlines freak me out a bit, to the point of getting so nervous that I have to get it done that day, otherwise I think I never will get it done. I think I am getting better at spacing stuff out and making little deadlines in between, like doing four pages a day as opposed to the fifteen or so that needed to be done in one day. I guess that’s just all you need to do, pace yourself and take a break when you need to.
I have had my laptop for over two years now, but I hardly use it so the battery is still pretty good on it. Krissy though, has one of those huge ones that is good for around eight hours, well now she’s lucky if she can get five out of the thing. Her’s is only a little over a year old, so it isn’t as old as mine. I told her that she is eventually going to need a new laptop battery. They are expensive, but if you can find a good deal on one, then you should definitely snatch it up because good deals on laptop batteries are few and far between.
When I was doing sound mixing and editing for a game in high school, I was using my teacher’s old IBM Thinkpad. That wouldn’t even hold a charge. It would need to be plugged in with the battery in it in order to work, the minute you unplugged it, it went dead. All it needed was a battery, but a new battery for it would have been more than the laptop would have been worth, so it really wasn’t worth it back then. Last I heard that old machine was being donated to a class at Brookdale Community College
I made an appointment to bring my car in on Saturday. They told me that the mechanic would call me with a better estimate for the ammount that I will have to pay. From what I’ve read, the part is like $400 and they have to take the entire engine out and that requires at least two people, so it is no wonder why it is going to be around $900. Once it is all said and done though, I will have a nice reliable car again.
I’ve had to get drug tested when I was a teenager, it was one of the many perks of having a troubled youth. I hated having to stand in the bathroom and pee in a cup with a man behind me making sure I wasn’t cheating. Personally I would have preferred the hair test to the pee test, you don’t really have to do anything. I mean just look at the Hair Confirm Teenage Drug Testing Resources, it is a much better than peeing in a cup, especially nowadays that there are drinks that will cleanse your system a day before you go, with a hair test they can’t really cheat.
I love how people trash talk in games, then if you beat them they claim that you cheat. It is called not cheating, but being better than you. Personally I trash talk after the game is over, because normally I have more kills than anyone else in the game. The little kids trash talk is the worse because you have this ten year old cursing at you and its like shut up kid, go do your homework. At least with Halo 3 they gave us the silent idiot button.
There is a game that Krissy and I both want equally for the Wii. It is Mario Vs. Sonic at the Olympic Games. The game looks interesting, and you can use your Miis against Mario, Sonic, Luigi, Tails, basically anyone from either series. The game was recently moved up two weeks, so it comes out in early November, which I might get when it comes out, afterall we have to get our exercise with the Wii.