i looked at you, i bit my lip & i broke a tooth

[the_siobhan]

I am working a bajillion hours of OT again, which usually means I'm not doing much else. I'm trying to put as many hours into my weekdays as I can in the hopes of having an actual two-day weekend. Last week I worked every day and it was exhausting.

Currently I am closing tickets and listening to Skinny Puppy. As one does.

All this OT money is getting socked away, and anything that doesn't get spent on repairs[1] is going to pay for a small trip once the pandemic is over. I like these walls, but I want to look at some different walls for a while.

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[1] Repairs we have had to pay far so far this year:
1. New roof for the kitchen
2. Replace the drain pump on the washing machine
3. Brand new furnace
4. New heating unit on the dryer

I predict the next thing to fall over and sink into the swamp will be the hot water tank. Axe was supposed to look into getting that replaced so I need to bug him about that[2]. It's kind of important to catch that one before it happens because we don't have a drain in the floor and the basement DJ has a lot of stuff that could potentially get damaged.

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[2] I am the sole keeper of the executive function in this house. This makes me an enormous killjoy.

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My phone has been slowly bricking itself over the last few months. It started with not being able to support more and more apps. Then it stopped being able to reach the network unless I was on my home wifi. Now it can't even do phone calls any more, it just punts everything straight to voicemail.

Nothing pisses me off more than planned obsolescence. There is nothing wrong with the hardware, the manufacturer just doesn't support it anymore. (Never ever buy a Huawei.)

Axe helped me find a reasonably priced replacement phone which is currently winging it's way across the border so I will have it in a couple of days. I suspect this current one will manage to melt or explode or something in the meantime.

Comments

[cornerofmadness]

sorry about the phone. Working that much OT is tiring but I hope the money is good

[the_siobhan]

Thanks!

Also I will thoroughly enjoy my long Xmas weekend.

[cornerofmadness]

I'm sure

[china_shop]

[2] I am the sole keeper of the executive function in this house.

Oof, that's rough!

I hope the replacement phone arrives before the current one bricks itself entirely. *crosses fingers and wishes you luck and fortitude*

[the_siobhan]

Thanks! It's in transit, so could be any day now!

[greylock]

Never ever buy a Huawei.

I've had two, both I selected because they were cheap and had replaceable batteries, which was (is) important to me.

In both cases, the software died before the batteries did. And I am not even sure why. I never update or install apps beyond the initial start up. It's kinda annoying.

I am now on my spare phone, a Motorola, and it does not have a replaceable battery, but the audio jack doesn't work, and I think it is following the same path to death as yours.

I miss when things were made to last.

Finally, where are you going to holiday?

[the_siobhan]

No idea. It's too far in the distance to make plans.

Although I was supposed to visit Casper for a week in April, so maybe we'll dust that one off.

[greylock]

Yeah, I was thinking it would be at least late 2021, early 2022 before borders open.

Casper, the place, or Casper... the Drunken Bartender/Ghost/Other?

[the_siobhan]

I think you're conflating two people. Casper Von Bittergoth is in Montreal and Nate the Gothic Bartender is in Cincinatti.

Haven't seen Nate in years but I still hang out with Etienne occasionally.

[greylock]

I did wonder about the reliability of my memory.

[chasing_silver]

I only ever buy iPhones, though every one of each brand of phone has the planned obsolescence sadly. It's such a waste.

Where do you plan to go?

[the_siobhan]

It is and I hate it. Especially with phones, since they use conflict metals.

I have no idea where I'm going to go. Maybe to Montreal. Maybe camping. Maybe something more exotic if things will stop breaking down on me.

[elusis]

I am working ~60 hours per week, and I should be socking away more but I'm doing what I've always done when money was suddenly flowing relatively freely: spending it on some splash-outs, giving it to friends who are in tight spots, and generally reveling in not having to constantly check my bank balance.

Though I decided I want to have my savings at $X by next May/June, and that means saving about $Y per month between now and then, so I really do need to get organized with some sort of budget to make sure I do that.

Every year about this time, I say "I really do need to get organized with some sort of budget." Sigh.

[the_siobhan]

I have a budget, but it's based on just barely scraping by. Now that Axe is working again I need to re-organize it so I have both savings and some cash to spend on myself.

[elusis]

What's Axe up to with work? That's encouraging to have more cash flow.

[the_siobhan]

He's doing tech support for a website. Basically helping people set up accounts and filtering out spammers, things like that.

It's casual work, but he can work as many hours as he wants and they seem to have lots for him to do. So far so good.

[disastrid]

[2] I am the sole keeper of the executive function in this house. This makes me an enormous killjoy.

Hoo boy do I ever feel this one. I have neurological problems with executive function to begin with but I really have come to learn that non-male people tend to have to develop it no matter what the cost.

[the_siobhan]

Oh yeah, Erika has an entire rant about how women-bodied people don't get to just not be able to do things.

Ten years later I'm still mad about recovering from swine flu and eating Kraft Dinner out of the pot because nobody did the dishes the entire time I was sick.

[disastrid]

You really do deserve better than that <3

[the_siobhan]

Well do be fair, I raised such a stink about it that it never happened again.