The Aerie

Bought Out

*Phew* Well, okay. I think I have now replaced every posession that I owned.

I bought a replacement cell phone yesterday - a T-Mobile "MDA". It has all the usual features: web browser, MP3 player, quad-band-blah-blah-blah-blah. I couldn't care less. If it werent' for the fact that the phone company only lets you "upgrade" your phone once every year, I would have gotten one of the free-upgrade phones, but I didn't care to be stuck with a featureless piece of junk if I didn't like it. At least if I don't like this one, I'm stuck with a full-featured piece of junk.

Haven't had time to do anything much with it. I had a client contact me about an additional income-earning opportunity and I hopped on that right away. Plus I took my daughter to see "V for Vendetta" at the Imax theater, a movie that ought to be required reading for high school history classes. Really interesting website, too. The most subversive film I've seen in years, especially when you turn the protagonist's logo upside-down. The nerve of the directors to make the "hero" a terrorist who blows up buildings is immense.

So in the past week I've dropped a chunk of change on remodeling, bought a used car, a batch of airline tickets to Germany, and a cell phone that will play music, take pictures, and work in Germany. I'm about bought-out, I don't want to buy anything ever again. PAYING for all this remains a mystery. Fortunately my boss returned from her vacation and did NOT immediately turn in her two-weeks notice, so I am slightly safer in my position for the time being. Slightly.

Tonight I have to print out two years worth of invoices, letters, and e-mails billing a company for work I was ordered to do by the courts in 2003, which is not yet paid. Hopefully my friend Al, who is a lawyer, can compel the parties involved to pay me the money they owe me. It would help a little bit amidst all these cash outlays.

Tomorrow I'm going to see Stephanie Miller around noon, that should be fun. Her radio show is some of the best daily live radio I've ever heard. These guys are talented and hilarious, sometimes painfully so. Snorting your morning coffee out your nose hurts!

Posted by Albatross at April 6, 2006 3:23 PM | TrackBack