June 15, 2006
Clusterf ... er... post
As you may have noticed I haven't been updating this place much, and if you're even a little upset about that I'd be all like "wow.. yeah.. whooo...sheeit... sorry...". The funny thing about this is that not really that much has been happening, but enough to prevent me from posting. Apparently my lack of content doesn't stop people from dropping by from Googlyland to the ol' blog looking for what their b1rthday means, and the je0pardy theme song... the hits seem to be ramping up on those intellectually fulfilling topics.
A couple of weeks ago we signed a heloc to catch up on some evil debt and give ourselves some room to improve other things (home, new car, etc.). I'm happy with it, but now it looks like we should have asked for a couple of K more, meh, we'll live. We're looking at maybe this fall buying the new car if interest rates are good. The heloc has freed up almost 500 bucks a month in bills we were paying to various evil credit cards etc. I really think if I would have waited even 2 weeks longer we would have been completely sunk, June would have obliterated us financially.
We were about to cancel one of our credit cards but along with it there were the travel rewards that would disappear, so we used them to get a couple nights in Calgary at a hotel, and visited Vulcan AB for their Galaxyfest on Saturday. The kids and the dog stayed at my mother-in-laws, making it our first trip alone in about 4 years or more. It was pretty damn nice: sleeping in, travelling places by simply getting in the car not congregating the brood, no statements such as "Stop that!", "Put that down!" spoken, and freedom to watch whatever we want on tv. Vulcan was ok, but we didn't really spend that much time or go to the gala or supper, just passed through
Last night I found out I can almost carry my own weight in dumbells... I helped my supervisor move and carried his dumbells out to the moving van. I got out there and he goes "Whoa! Dave!" .. and then proceeds to count out how much I was carrying. 125 lbs (ok, it's about 15 lbs less than my own weight, but still pretty damn good for someone who doesn't work out).
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