Monetary and job worries and things

Kinda funny...for several years past the time it began fading away from "super-fast dream machine" to "oversized paperweight," I've still been largely satisfied with my old Celeron box...but now that a reasonable plan for upgrading to a faster, better computer is forming, I'm suddenly impatient to have it in my grasp. 1.8 gigahertz...I can't even conceive of how lightning-fast that's going to be. Of course, I felt the same way before I got my 450 MHz machine, too...

Of course, if I want this thing, I'm going to have to buckle down and start taking better care of my finances. I had been taking a lot of days of undertime just so I'd have a few more hours to spend online with my friends...and since I was regularly hitting the $200-per-paycheck payout, I could afford it, right? But it's funny how those hours add up...if I just skip two hours a day, that's 1/5 of my pre-payout check...$64 a week. No more of that, for the foreseeable future. It's not like the last two hours of the shift are terribly taxing, anyway...and what with my student loans about to go into repayment at long last, I need all the extra money I can get.

( And here the entry segues into much wailing and gnashing of teeth about how I could be making more money if only I weren't such a lazy bum. )