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Huzzah!

Apr

9

2008

Fourteen months after deciding I wanted one, and deciding I should get one at Best Buy because I had a big store credit there, I FINALLY found a Best Buy with Wiis in stock at a time when I could actually afford one. After the last time I came close to getting a Wii eight ...

Life Gets Expensive

Apr

6

2008

Several large expenses are cropping up in my life, and they’ve conveniently chosen to do so a) at the same time and b) when I took an underpaying job just so I wouldn’t lose my mind. Causing the most fun at the moment: The Bed. My bedframe, which has lasted me a good while and ...

A Weekend of “D’oh!…Oh, okay.”

Mar

23

2008

Two things gave me nice little “Oh…fuck…” moments this weekend, but for once, luck was actually on my side. First, I dropped my ATM card at Benihana’s. I’d gone for a friend’s birthday, and dropped my wallet as I was getting ready to leave. I didn’t realize the debit card was gone until we got ...

Good Grief

Mar

20

2008

I worked two days last week. Mileage take? $58.08. Maybe with all the runs I’ve been doing this week, I’ll actually manage to make up for the $150 in gas I’ve had to buy in the last 8 days since I took this job.

The Broke-Ass Chronicles 1

Feb

25

2008

Not a lot going on with me at the moment, mostly scraping along while I try to find myself a new job. A few points to share from the trenches of brokedom: – My $3 a meal effort seems to be working well. 30 days a month x 3 meals a day x $3 meal ...

Bad News/Good News

Jan

29

2008

I got a call from the folks at Apple about my computer today. The bad news is, because I have a matte screen on my MacBook Pro and will not even consider getting a glossy screen, they won’t have a part in until Feb 7th, and won’t have my computer back to me until Feb. ...

Budgetary Realizations

Jan

11

2008

Two things I realize now, after going through my budget with a fine tooth comb to try and kick out a few extra pennies, that I probably should not have done: 1. Moved out of my old Russian-Mob-Owned shithole apartment in Venice. I might have wanted to strangle my neighbors on an hourly basis, but ...

Fiscal Responsibility Sucks Ass

Aug

7

2007

God DAMN it. I stopped by Best Buy tonight to continue my ongoing research into rigging a GPS into my car by actually looking at one in person. I wasn’t planning on buying anything (for reasons I will elaborate on later in the post), but then I saw two things: 1. Martin Starr, who played ...

Indecision 3

Jun

16

2007

I want to buy a new computer. I’d been planning to buy a new computer around now, until Apple pushed back the release of its new operating system, Leopard, from WWDC (which was last week) to October. Common sense says I should wait the four and a half months it’ll take for Leopard/iLife to come ...

Ah, The Past

Feb

11

2007

Turner Classic Movies is doing their 31 Days of Oscar marathon, an event that generally causes me to fill up my TiVo and have to work through the backlog for several months. However, I did watch 30 Seconds over Tokyo today. It’s a fantastic movie about Doolittle’s raids on Tokyo in early 1942, but it ...