Well, now that the funds fully cleared into my bank account I've made the monster payment to Discover, which was just under a grand. Ouch. Regardless, I needed to do it. I've indulged myself with some books and such as well, and I've got a goodly chunk of cash set aside for my trip to MFF in November- part of that gets here in August I think, with the property tax return. I'm still waiting on whether or not I have the right stop for Amtrak or not- if they don't get back to me tonight I'll send a couple more emails out and recheck the site. I vaguely recall last year they had the info posted.

This Friday is payday, and of course more bills. The mortgage payment goes out then, as well as the electric bill and cable- I'm essentially all caught up. Woot!

Thursday, in other news, I'm doing required training for work- as a security guard I have to get at least 6 hours of training every year (Oh so onerous, I know!) I just wish it wouldn't fark up my schedule. Training is dayside, of course, and they won't let me work the night before anymore- which is stupid, cos I'll be up anyway to try and keep my sleep schedule at least partly straight. I hate stupid people.

Saturday will likely be the last run of the temporary Dresden game. Whether it is or not things are set up that if joshuwain wants to continue he can, as can any other player that decides to run the city we came up with. I really hope the world continues on either way- its a blast. :)

Today and the next few days I plan to try and get caught up on the damned game writeups. First up will be the two Dresden runs, then the most recent Buffy Horror for the Sunday Group (even though the next run is a month from now- Easter intervenes), and finally the two Western Campaign runs. Somewhere in there I'll also finish the stories I wrote for the Dresden game and also try to work on the other short stories I've started. Agh!

And that's about it, I think. Now all I need is a lottery win!

Not a lot up, I go back to work tonight as my weekend is now almost over. The new laptop is real nice, and I'm using it a lot- pretty much like I did the old one, which is now fully charged once again. I know there's still a problem, but heck, as long as it runs I'm keeping it. :)

On Friday I deposited my Federal return check. $500 goes 'invisible' for emergencies, $1000 is set aside for the trip in November to Midwest Furfest, and the remaining bit goes to pay for the laptop. As of that, all but $200 is paid for, and part of that is the printer. :) $100 of THAT goes when the printer rebate arrives, and the last of it goes when the property tax rebate arrives. Yay!

I'm now watching ebay off and on for a copy of Adobe PS. I've stripped the copy of Photoshop 7 I had on this and the old laptop, as it seems well and truly fried. My pricerange for the new version is about $100 or so- WAY below the new cost, I know, but I've seen PS 2 and 3 in that range before.

Other than that, I paid bills, got groceries and picked up comics on Friday. That's sums up the unendurably exciting life I lead. Oh- Last week I put in for my birthday off as paid vacation- dunno what I'll do, but even just NOT BEING AT WORK will be nice.

Buh. nearly forgot- I picked up the soundtrack to Watchmen and the DVD of Desperaux too.

And THAT'S it. Really.

Today I went out to eat at Keys Cafe with joshuwain, khirsahdrgn, foeclan, mirrdae and feezlekahn. It was a nice meal, and I for once ordered a bit more than I wanted. Oh well. Discussions were had about a movie party, with joshuwain wanting to start immediately, and myself wanting to wait til later so that I could grab a nap and see if ataramos and zxizaraxii, who were asleep, would want to come.

So, Mirr and Khir dropped me off at home, while they and the rest went over to the other house to start. They're watching Hellboy 2 first, which I've seen and own. When I finally get over there they'll be putting in Hancock and any of a number of other choices (Wall-E, the most recent Hulk film, and the most recent Jackie Chan flick that at the moment I can't recall the title of).

Now for the roller coaster bit. As people who've followed my LJ know, I refinanced the house just before Midwest Furfest to consolidate debt and improve my financial situation. Part of this was that they would be paying off my debts. They INSISTED on having control of this. That's fine. For the last week I've been getting calls from Discover, asking for a payment. They've not received a dime yet. I've checked- the right amount went to my checking account (Just over $2400), and all the other credit debts were paid, save for small amounts which I dealt with today.

So where is the payment to Discover? I've no idea. I ended up paying the minimum amount to Discover to shut them the hell up and stop then from calling, and called Countrywide and the title company. They're both out of the office for the holiday.

Joy.

So I get to raise hell Monday to get this shit resolved. And as a real capper, for the THIRD TIME IN A ROW my paycheck was shorted. I fully expect the NEXT to be shorted too. I get to bitch at people about THAT on Monday too.

I want off the fucking ride. I'm getting sick. :P

So much for a nap, too.

Apparently he got caught at a closing. So, 9:30 tomorrow we try again. If he's not there or he's significantly late, I'm calling Countrywide's home offices and raising some SERIOUS hell.

Well, I got all the calls done but for talking to dad (he wasn't home) and the roomie-stuff. The bank reversed $70 of the NSF charges (YAY!), the 24 hours of pay has been given to me and the check will mail tomorrow, and after talking to the mortgage company I'm a LOT more interested in the refinance option- I'll be getting about $12000 out to cover the credit debts and such, but the numbers that I got are as follows: My interest rate would go the 5.875 instead of 5.5, which means I could pay a few points to keep that the same, and it I went to a loan of $125,000 (taking about $20,000 out, which I'm not going to), my total payment would increase by about $100... As opposed to the roughly $400 I have to pay the creditors. Gee. Hard choice!

So I'll talk to the roomies tonight sometime, and Dad as well. I think I can stabilize this.

... Has a nasty little policy when they disconnect services for nonpayment. They don't notify you, and they throw the switch AFTER their contact-hours are over. How do I know this? I had an overdue bill, and tonight they cut my DSL. I'm online via an additional $9.95 paid to the Minneapolis WiFi network for 24 hours of service, which I paid so that I could pay the damn bill- Their billing offices are closed too! Even fucking Comcast can take payments after-hours and has 24/7 tech support!

It was my fault to have not made the payment. But their policy here is fucked.

They got an earful on their help-chat (which couldn't help me), on their contact-line (who couldn't see the illogic of connecting me to a CLOSED office), and tomorrow morning when I get home I'm gonna light a fucking fire- I better have my goddamned DSL back near-instantly.

To the roommates- Sorry for the trouble. I had no idea that this would happen, and had been aiming to make a payment in the morning anyway. :P

edit: They cut the DSL at 7:30, I was on the phone with Visi til 8:30, and THEY couldn't find the issue so I called QWest, who finally (with an operator who only barely spoke english- not necessarily foreign, just unintelligible) told me I needed to make a payment (Which I'd done) and kept trying to connect me with offices that were closed (THEY told me they were closed, and STILL tried to insist on connecting me)! Gods. THEN I went to the online help-chat, which told me exactly ZERO. Bleh.

Good- Caught up on bills and made strawberry shakes for me, ataramos and zxizaraxii.

Bad- The central AC unit is low on freon so I have to shut it off periodically so that the coils don't get damaged by the ice forming on them... Beats me why it don't form when the freon is properly topped off. Bleah.

Neutral- But Reliant Energy will be out to recharge it Monday, and will check the furnace out too.

Weird- The ice cream in the freezer, unlike everything ELSE in the freezer, wasn't all that frozen... while the strawberries in the fridge WERE frozen. O.o