Yellow Alert
Holy crap on a stick! I'm posting! Hurry, run to the mirror and check your forehead for numbers. If you go outside, watch out for horsemen and falling bits of sky. This is bound to be trouble.
Meanwhile, across town...
mrs_ladybug and I have recently entered the gravitational field of a money black hole. There we were, not too long ago, cruising along on impulse engines toward Metrocon, when the dilithium crystal cracked. The water pump went out on our little Chevy Cavalier, and it cost us a total of around too-fucking-much to pay for. Of course, we had to borrow the money. We watched plaintively as our Metrocon funds gathered in a puddle in the parking lot. It was ok, though. We got it done.
Nobody actually said, "What else could go wrong?", but one of us must have thought it.
I take the blame on this one. I thought everything was groovy; not a blip on the radar. See, our bank had recently sent us an offer to skip our next car payment for a small fee, and I accepted. I was glad to get a little more wiggle room in the budget. Of course, I neglected to actually apply for the skip, so it didn't happen. Our car payment was automatically paid, and that was fine, but it didn't leave enough money for the other things we had paid for because I thought we had the money.
/me slaps himself on the forehead with a wooden plank.
So, another loan. We are now down $400, which I'm hoping I can recoup in our budget. Metrocon plans are getting slimmer by the moment, but I remain billigerently optimistic. It will work out, because I say it will.
So there.
Meanwhile, across town...
mrs_ladybug and I have recently entered the gravitational field of a money black hole. There we were, not too long ago, cruising along on impulse engines toward Metrocon, when the dilithium crystal cracked. The water pump went out on our little Chevy Cavalier, and it cost us a total of around too-fucking-much to pay for. Of course, we had to borrow the money. We watched plaintively as our Metrocon funds gathered in a puddle in the parking lot. It was ok, though. We got it done.
Nobody actually said, "What else could go wrong?", but one of us must have thought it.
I take the blame on this one. I thought everything was groovy; not a blip on the radar. See, our bank had recently sent us an offer to skip our next car payment for a small fee, and I accepted. I was glad to get a little more wiggle room in the budget. Of course, I neglected to actually apply for the skip, so it didn't happen. Our car payment was automatically paid, and that was fine, but it didn't leave enough money for the other things we had paid for because I thought we had the money.
/me slaps himself on the forehead with a wooden plank.
So, another loan. We are now down $400, which I'm hoping I can recoup in our budget. Metrocon plans are getting slimmer by the moment, but I remain billigerently optimistic. It will work out, because I say it will.
So there.