| This week was pretty pointless, like every week of my life it seems. My problems stem from one thing, not having any money. I’m living on the edge on a part-timer’s salary. I’m paying for things in the past, like actual bills from the past I mean. There was a period of time in which I lived off my credit cards, because I wasn’t working. Now that I’m working I’m paying those bills off, but then new ones get piled on top of those old debts. Friday night I came home from work to find a reminder that yet another bill is coming soon... my student loan. I paid for the first semester of this stupid library school experiment out of pocket, because I had the money from my Father’s house selling. But I still needed more money, hence the loan. Well, even though I’m not going to school I still had to spend that money. I wanted to keep most of it so I could pay it nearly all back. However, I still had that huge debt from the plumbing bill a year and a half ago. That bill went from zero percent to something like a 22% interest rate. I was not going to be able to pay that off any time soon, or even keep up with the minimum payments. So I used the loan money to pay for the other loan. Now the student loan has come to roost... $8,500. They want the first installment next month. December 7th will be my Pearl Harbor day, because I have no idea how I’m going to come up with ANOTHER $100 to pay for that loan. I’m already at the edge now. I have a couple of bucks in reserve for this loan, but that will only last me for a few payments. I need to find a third job. But what I really need to find is a way to sell my photos while working a better paying job. That’s the only way I can start to make headway against this mountain of debt I have accumulated over the years. Jeez, what I am to do?* * * * * * On a totally different subject... How come whenever someone dies they only thing anyone can ever say about them is that they were “nice” and that they were “so funny?” Not everyone is THAT funny. Not everyone is THAT nice. Whenever there’s a news story about how someone tragically died those interviewed always say the same bullshit about the person who died: “They were so funny, they always made me laugh.” Yeah, sure, that’s the only thing they can say about them because they didn’t really know them. You can’t really know a person completely. But to say something so generic makes me sick. Also, death whitewashes the person. Because how come no one on the news every says, “Man, that guy was a real jerk. I’m glad a car hit him.” Know why, because no one wants to say anything negative about the dead, and because people are phony. It’s suck bullshit. * * * * * *
 Since AT&T is screwing me over with my unlimited data plan I figured that I would use my iPhone’s data whenever possible, as as much as possible. The photo above shows my data usage trend over the last few months. Notice the upwards trend. What you can’t see if this month’s trend, which is MUCH higher than any of these months. I jailbroke my iPhone last week, after having to suffer four days without home internet and phone. My only connection was from my iPhone, but I couldn’t use that to connect because AT&T charges an extra $20 a MONTH to turn on tethering. By jailbreaking I went around that restriction and by downloading a little app called MyWi I can create a wi-fi hotspot with my iPhone. I use that to connect my old iPhone to the internet, streaming Pandora while I’m driving to and from work. And I’m also using Netflix a lot these days. In the first four days of this bill cycle I’ve used 393MBs of data. Projected that means close to 4 gigs of data used this coming month. In short... suck it AT&T! I plan on getting every bit of data from my $30 plan from now on. End Communication. |
