Check into Crash
One of the fans in my PC case can no longer move under its own power. Something is in the little turbine thing (I just realized I don't know what that area is called) that's causing a lot of friction. Luckily, I had a spare fan to replace it with, with nice red LED lights, but it makes almost double the noise. It's still fairly quiet, but I'd rather take it and stick it in the bottom of the case (where's it won't be heard as much).
And I just realized that the fan I have in the bottom now is another three-speed like the old one, the LED one isn't. So, since I wouldn't be able to change the speed for the bottom one anyway, I should just switch those two fans.
HUR DUR. But I'd still like to fix the other one, then I can put it somewhere else in the case (I'll eventually get this sucker to hover). Anyone know how to fix those?
After actually going to church this morning (probably the first time in a month), I went to pick up my mom at the airport; she's been gone more than two weeks. Good to see her. Then I, her, and my little sister (who tagged along) ate at this place called "The Noodle Company" which isn't bad. I had some Japanese Pan Noodles. Good stuff.
Then, after getting home, I did a bit of cleaning and, upon opening a Capital One statement, found out I missed a payment, and so was charged $39(!). Apparently, calling them and asking really nice will get it waived (I believe they specifically said it would appear as a credit on my next statement). So that's good.
I then proceeded to spend the next four hours balancing my checkbook. Well, in my case it was MSMoney. I hadn't done this for about four months now, so I had a lot of catching up to do. My bank also only provides MSM downloads for the last two or three months, so I had to go into my statements and check each item for a few months bit by bit, eventually finding all the discrepancies.
The short of it is that I'm broke as fuck. This isn't the economy's fault--I'm just really, really bad with money. I give in easily to compulsion buys (you don't help either, Thomas), and hording things.
Right now I have $250 in my bank account, and $152 of that will disappear tomorrow thanks to bills. My Discover card has roughly $1800 on it, with a $3000 limit. My Capital One has $2200 with a $3000 limit. I have a Chase card that I've never used that has $900 available. So all told I have about $3000 to play with before I actually am completely broke. Try to get a full career job by February, start paying off stuff, and it will all be good, right? Well, no. See, that doesn't include my tuition loans.
Outstanding Loan balance: $93,747. Outstanding Interest: $17,846. So I have $110,000 in college loans to pay off. Oh, and I owe my university $250 (well, I guess it's $500 now). And I still owe about $4000 on my car to my parents. This completely ignores any other mortal needs.
Mommy.
And I just realized that the fan I have in the bottom now is another three-speed like the old one, the LED one isn't. So, since I wouldn't be able to change the speed for the bottom one anyway, I should just switch those two fans.
HUR DUR. But I'd still like to fix the other one, then I can put it somewhere else in the case (I'll eventually get this sucker to hover). Anyone know how to fix those?
After actually going to church this morning (probably the first time in a month), I went to pick up my mom at the airport; she's been gone more than two weeks. Good to see her. Then I, her, and my little sister (who tagged along) ate at this place called "The Noodle Company" which isn't bad. I had some Japanese Pan Noodles. Good stuff.
Then, after getting home, I did a bit of cleaning and, upon opening a Capital One statement, found out I missed a payment, and so was charged $39(!). Apparently, calling them and asking really nice will get it waived (I believe they specifically said it would appear as a credit on my next statement). So that's good.
I then proceeded to spend the next four hours balancing my checkbook. Well, in my case it was MSMoney. I hadn't done this for about four months now, so I had a lot of catching up to do. My bank also only provides MSM downloads for the last two or three months, so I had to go into my statements and check each item for a few months bit by bit, eventually finding all the discrepancies.
The short of it is that I'm broke as fuck. This isn't the economy's fault--I'm just really, really bad with money. I give in easily to compulsion buys (you don't help either, Thomas), and hording things.
Right now I have $250 in my bank account, and $152 of that will disappear tomorrow thanks to bills. My Discover card has roughly $1800 on it, with a $3000 limit. My Capital One has $2200 with a $3000 limit. I have a Chase card that I've never used that has $900 available. So all told I have about $3000 to play with before I actually am completely broke. Try to get a full career job by February, start paying off stuff, and it will all be good, right? Well, no. See, that doesn't include my tuition loans.
Outstanding Loan balance: $93,747. Outstanding Interest: $17,846. So I have $110,000 in college loans to pay off. Oh, and I owe my university $250 (well, I guess it's $500 now). And I still owe about $4000 on my car to my parents. This completely ignores any other mortal needs.
Mommy.