| boy am I slacking badly...7 months without writing a thing...I have had a lot of stuff keeping me busy though, and so much has changed too... |
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Happy 8th Anniversary to my loyal reader Marianne and her husband! |
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DO NOT buy anything from Wintech Computers and Wireless on 707 32nd Street in Union City. Those guys are ripoffs and disrespected my best friend today...shame on them! |
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| Sorry I neglected thee Xanga...I still haven't figured out video updating yet...but wait they have...Xanga chat now? that seems worth trying :-p |
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| Oh Xanga how have I neglected thee...I am so sorry.... There are good reasons why: - My emotional situation at home continues to worsen by the day. And now the financial picture isn't pretty either. Mom and my sister, who have been living off my back for years, have been bleeding me of cash even more than ever now that the economy hasn't gotten any better and there wasn't enough loans and aid to pay for college, etc. I don't even wanna bother going into detail on here about exact figures, my close friends know them, and for the rest of you, let's just say that on top of the regular amount I contribute each month (which is almost enough to rent a two bedroom apartment even in my part of NJ), I have had to cough up fistfuls of extra cash for other family emergencies and college costs which so far for 2010 have run well over $2,000.
- And to fund the above, guess what I have had to do? I have had to moonlight driving a SNOW PLOW. Yes, here I am, a reasonably successful up and rising engineering professional, having to fund the endless money pit that is mom and my sister by driving a truck. For those of you not so well versed in the world of trucks, it is pretty exhausting driving one of those things. I would end a shift on one of those with aching arms, legs, back, you name it. Because it was either that, or run myself into thousands of dollars in debt that who knows how long I would be paying at these ridiculous interest rates the banks charge (the Extreme Socialist Obama gave us the "CARD Act" to try and stop it, but all it did was to piss off the banks and make them raise everyone's rates before the law actually took effect. I liked the old days better when only irresponsible borrowers were getting penalized and pushed around.) I will admit, though, it was a very interesting experience and if anything I got a Class B CDL now
 - Although this winter has, thankfully, been much more lenient on my body than the terrible winter of 2007-'08 was, I have still been suffering from sinus problems. Combine that with my sleep patterns being thrown out of whack by snow shifts and insane levels of stress, and I have needless to say not been feeling all that well these days. I can't wait for May and 60 degree weather Let's hope we get a real summer this year and not 8 weeks of humid rain with only 3 nice days or so.
- One of the computers at home caught a virus and I had to format it's hard drive and reinstall the OS. I took the chance to disassemble it, clean out the dust, and upgrade it from 512 MB RAM to 1.5GB RAM.
- And for the one piece of actual good news in the endless stack of BS that is my life, we celebrated my cousin Carolina's Sweet 16 on Saturday March 13. Despite the stormy weather we had lots of good food and fun
And now, I shall leave you with a fun picture having slightly to do with this update but mostly for a few laughs (from The Simpsons Road Rage for PS2): 
Next update to come: who knows when... 
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