Comments | wealhtheow: do I have "strong face" written all over me?

wealhtheow

do I have "strong face" written all over me?

Feb 04, 2007 19:53

( bitch bitch bitch )

you fail, credit, shn, hate, friends

Comments 14

dymaxion February 5 2007, 06:27:46 UTC

Nah, some of us just flee the continent.

BTW, let me know if you want to hang out before I leave again. :-)

wealhtheow February 5 2007, 06:39:26 UTC

Ah yes! I hereby signify at arjache, caladri and corivax that there must be hanging out ASAP.

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wealhtheow February 5 2007, 08:59:12 UTC

/me lacks e-mails... I think...

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wealhtheow February 5 2007, 08:58:51 UTC

"Other kinds of tips," sure :) This particular plot requires more time, effort, and principal than I have to give...

aepfelx February 5 2007, 08:40:22 UTC

i'm reminded of another point i should've made earlier:

there were a couple of groups that were at hands on who came in with a clear idea of what they wanted to do, called hands on, told them "here's a project we want to do in the area, we have people who have the right skills, and we just need basic infrastructure like housing", and hands on was happy to have them. i actually did one workday with one of these groups, a bunch of (real, rather than computer) engineers from virginia who were working a house following a lead from a local pastor.

so perhaps you might want to consider joining hands on but doing SHN work for your project? the right thing to do would be to call the local HandsOn (the NOLA branch should be up and running well by now) and ask what they think. (again, i should add the disclaimer that, given that handson has changed management since i was there, they may've changed some policies)

wealhtheow February 5 2007, 08:58:08 UTC

Yeah, I e-mailed them ("them" meaning the new management) to ask about doing just that, but didn't think to phone them. I suppose I shall pick up the phone! ...at a decent hour...

eisenbud February 5 2007, 08:55:56 UTC

There are three credit bureaus, and you can get one free report a year from each, so you can get a free credit report every four months if you want.

wealhtheow February 5 2007, 08:57:09 UTC

Oh, that is an excellent point! Duh!

polymorphously February 6 2007, 01:04:06 UTC

Though they often have varied information, and what you really want is your credit score. :)

ilcylic February 5 2007, 20:27:19 UTC

I made my credit score awesome via the expediant of taking a spare $12k I had lying around after the dot-com crash, using it to get a secured loan, and then using the money from the secured loan to get another secured loan. And then I just let the money sit there and pay the loans back by themselves, and after that I had walks on water credit.

The spare $12k is the hard part, though.

ilcylic February 5 2007, 20:28:20 UTC

And, of course, it cost me 6% of the total to pull this off.

But, since it has regularly gotten me better interest rates on things like cars and houses, I think it ended up being worth it.

polymorphously February 6 2007, 01:03:21 UTC

Now that I got that idiotic medical lab mark off my credit report, my credit score is back to pristine.

Too bad I've got no money at all to put down house. Or even a used car, for that matter.