I'm currently looking to fill an empty bedroom in my house with a paying room mate. I have an ad on Craigslist and have gotten a few responses ( Read more... )

Thursday I wrote on the whiteboard "NEW ROOM MATE ARRIVING SOON AFTER SEP 15".

As I said, I was out of the house all day Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I was shocked Saturday night when I got home at 12:30am and there was a response written there: "Sounds good, I will vacate and clean up by the 15th."

(originally posted on dreamwidth. I'd like to ( Read more... )

So, what happened to the blog?

Well...

Basically, when I started the blog, my financial situation was the most stable and happy that it had been in a few years, and I was looking forward to a period of time when I would have the time and money to do several medium-sized repairs and upgrades: replace the gutters, patch the stucco in a few places, ( Read more... )

A woman came and looked at the house last Thursday and rented the upstairs room on the spot. She emailed ahead and told me she was coming up from Tennesee to start a new job and could only pay for 2 weeks to start; so that's what she did ( Read more... )

Hm.
Just realized that at my previous bank, I never met or spoke to a male employee. Everyone from the branch manager down was a woman. I expect I will not be able to replicate that experience.

(originally posted on dreamwidth. I'd like to keep all my comments in one place, so I'd rather you comment there by creating an openID cross-site login.)

Or leaving, anyway. My beloved bank is being swallowed by a larger bank. Not a giant megabank, but still, it's a big jump from 2 locations to 49 locations (presumably plus 2, after the "merger"). And once this sort of things starts it tends not to end; you start out a customer at Mom-n-Pop's Neighborhood Bank and after a while you discover that ( Read more... )

My remaining room mate is moving back to China on Monday, like the other one did a little while ago ( Read more... )

A while ago, it occurred to me that when installing a phone system, there is often a big ol' pile o' scrap wire. Which we regularly throw away. And that people steal wire from abandoned buildings to sell it for scrap ( Read more... )

Just got an email from Amazon. It seems that I have spent enough with them recently that I triggered their cashback incentive scheme. (which is amusing in that I have only spent Amazon gift codes. Virtually no actual money was spent. But the gift codes added up to a fairly large amount) The email was warning me that I must ACT NOW before the ( Read more... )

My insurance Statement Of Benefits, or SOB arrived today. The entire ER visit is covered 100%, as is the followup visit with Doc "EE" Passovoy.