Yes, the \o/ is required in the title.
This post is not so much to cover what happened between today and Saturday, it is more to cover everything between now and the previous post in September...
As I have said, I have taken a month long sabbatical from my job up here in Orlando. I'm hoping that such a break will allow me to catch up on my school work, and maybe my writing and independent programming, though I doubt I would be able to catch up on anything more the former (though, maybe a few additional blog posts). I make enough money, barely, from my job back with my parents to pay for my food, car insurance and possible car maintenance, and to make payments to my credit cards. Not much more though, so I'm hoping that nothing goes horribly wrong financially with me.
I am worried about my parents. The station is breaking even... and not much else. Also, the bank is trying to force a refinancing of the station. Technically, it is at a lower rate, but they want to make it from the current 20 year loan to a 5 year loan, meaning a net increase of payments. Not too sure what my folks can do against that. Then my dad also went independent. Although he's doing more trades per month, the group he's processing his trades with are giving him a lower commission, and taking more out for his medical insurance, resulting in a significantly less paycheck per month. My mom is worried he may do something drastic...
On a positive note, I got the 500 dollar deductible from my car accident back in August (ya, it took that long.) Since I've been looking at ereaders for the last year plus (since the release of the Kindle 2), I used some of that money to purchase a Nook (the rest I used to pay off debts I owed). So far I'm really liking the device, and I really love the eInk screen. The interface is a little... slugish though. Though my primary reason for picking it up wasn't book reading. My zune died about four weeks ago, and my car's CD player died about two weeks ago. Since I'm in my car more than I am in class/at one of my jobs, I thought picking up something to play music might be worthwhile.
I'm considering writing some sort of scifi/pulpy story thing. I would try to update it weekly if I did. Still undecided on it though.
Anyway, I need to log. Have some homework that needs doing.
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