payments and payments
I finally got a cellular phone today. Mail me if you need the number.
I wanted to get in on the same calling plan that cthulhia scored, but the nice VoiceStream lady told me that my credit rating was in a state of "still being established", which I took to mean as something like calling Afghanistan a "developing nation". So, I had to choose a somewhat more expensive plan or nothing at all, and fork over a two-month security deposit to boot. Shrug... I took it anyway. It took me a long time to build the resolve to march in there and get that phone. (Well... it's more than since I've become more social, and differently busy in general, I several times a week have been finding myself in moments where I wish I had a phone on my person.)
So far I am pretty happy. The phone is wee, charges very quickly, and works when I call myself. It gives me an excuse to get an AIM account, too. (You wouldn't necessarily guess it, but AIM is the IMer of choice among a lot of ORA-centered hackers I know.)
I remember when I hit the halfway mark of my car's five-year lease; it didn't seem like too long ago. Today, to write my latest payment check, I looked at my account information online, and noticed that it ends in November 2002. Say, that's the year I've started writing on my checks.
You just blink your eyes, and out the door they go, all grown up.
The same site says that, the way things are looking now, I'd have to part with another $10,000 after the lease matured if I wanted to purchase the car. Hmm. I dunno. We'll see what happens.
I wanted to get in on the same calling plan that cthulhia scored, but the nice VoiceStream lady told me that my credit rating was in a state of "still being established", which I took to mean as something like calling Afghanistan a "developing nation". So, I had to choose a somewhat more expensive plan or nothing at all, and fork over a two-month security deposit to boot. Shrug... I took it anyway. It took me a long time to build the resolve to march in there and get that phone. (Well... it's more than since I've become more social, and differently busy in general, I several times a week have been finding myself in moments where I wish I had a phone on my person.)
So far I am pretty happy. The phone is wee, charges very quickly, and works when I call myself. It gives me an excuse to get an AIM account, too. (You wouldn't necessarily guess it, but AIM is the IMer of choice among a lot of ORA-centered hackers I know.)
I remember when I hit the halfway mark of my car's five-year lease; it didn't seem like too long ago. Today, to write my latest payment check, I looked at my account information online, and noticed that it ends in November 2002. Say, that's the year I've started writing on my checks.
You just blink your eyes, and out the door they go, all grown up.
The same site says that, the way things are looking now, I'd have to part with another $10,000 after the lease matured if I wanted to purchase the car. Hmm. I dunno. We'll see what happens.