Category: personal

Yay! I got my first donation for Light The Night.

My friend’s Bengal Kittens. For those of you who like pictures of kittens.

I just got the 90,000 mile service done on my Civic, and it cost almost as much as my new laptop. I console myself with the fact that this is pretty much the ONLY service I’ve had done on this car since I bought it, at 49,000 miles. Also, the laptop was refurbished, hence not that expensive. Still, it’s going to be a bigger than usual credit card bill this month!

I was just looking back on some financial stuff for the last year. It seems I often forget to look at the big picture with this stuff, instead getting caught up in the details. One mutual fund that I have in my IRA has been a bit of a dud since the market went south in 2000/2001. I was gratified to see that it had gone up from about $25 to $35 over the course of the last year. Then, I zoomed back a bit more, and remembered that I bought it at around $40 back in the nineties, and that it had hit a high of about $100 before the crash. Oh well, maybe it’ll get back to $40 before I retire, so it won’t be a net loss.

Urk. I’m getting a runny nose and a headache. I better not be getting a cold just 4 days before Christmas!

It’s been a long day — my neighbor’s alarm clock went off at 5:45am this morning, and he left it going (on a classic rock station) for about a half-hour, so I couldn’t get back to sleep. I managed to get a few things done today, including my homework. I also made a nice big pot of chili.

I’m wearing shorts!

Wow, it was nice and warm out today. Over 60, I think. And my apartment heats up unnaturally on days like this, so it was about 78 in here.