Catching up
Feb. 7th, 2019 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_master So here I am, writing stuff again. Seems like I only do that when I feel like it, which means that my DW/LJ will kind of have an incomplete account of my life, in dribs and drabs whenever I get around to it. I remember this used to be the main place I chronicled what happened to me, or at least you'd get the daily Twitter aggregations of me saying stuff that happened to me there. Only now I don't really use Twitter for that so much anymore since it stopped being able to repost my Tweets to Facebook automatically. Meh. Someday they'll come up with some sort of social media aggregator that can slurp up all my social media posts and aggregate them into a single timeline. Maybe there's such a thing already; I know there were people trying it a few years back.
So, my life has been going more or less okay for the last little while. The scooters of the fall gave me an extra $2000, and since then I've had a raise and bonus, and will be getting more bonuses and another small raise soon. I've also worked a bunch of overtime the last few months, which was also financially helpful. I've started paying my brother back for the condo he bought me, though he's allowing me to skip a month to rebuild my savings after an expensive Christmas. I'm hoping that spring will bring the scooters back, though judging by the pay rates showing the app now, they're not going to be as lucrative as they were, so it may not be worth going to too much trouble for them anymore.
In any case, it feels like I'm doing a little better managing money matters, especially now that I can use my magic lunchbox to bring frozen dinners instead of paying to eat out all the time. And having a cushion in my savings has helped me a <i>lot</i> over the last few months, when I accidentally overdrew my checking account a few times. No more zillion-dollar overdraft fees, or scurrying to friends or relatives in search of a temporary loan, yay! The feeling of relief is palpable.
Work is going okay. Now that we're past the peak season, calls are falling off to the point where I have space between calls to relax, most times. It's nice to be able to decompress, though I'm going to miss the ready availability of overtime.
Been getting a friend into <i>RWBY</i>, in such time he has available to watch the show. Ironically, it was right after we got to the part of the show that introduced Vic Mignogna's character, Qrow Branwen, that the big sexual harassment scandal about Vic broke, and suddenly Rooster Teeth announced they'd be recasting his character going forward. That's kind of depressing; Qrow is one of my favorite characters on the show, in large part thanks to the strength of Vic's acting. But going by all the furor, apparently the controversy over Vic's behavior has been going on for a number of years, and it's finally built to the point where it just couldn't be ignored anymore. And if even half of the stories are true, I can understand why a progressive outfit like Rooster Teeth wouldn't want to be associated with him. I hope whoever they get to replace him does a good job.
I suppose that's all I can think of to say right now. Suppose I'll close and maybe write something else later.
So, my life has been going more or less okay for the last little while. The scooters of the fall gave me an extra $2000, and since then I've had a raise and bonus, and will be getting more bonuses and another small raise soon. I've also worked a bunch of overtime the last few months, which was also financially helpful. I've started paying my brother back for the condo he bought me, though he's allowing me to skip a month to rebuild my savings after an expensive Christmas. I'm hoping that spring will bring the scooters back, though judging by the pay rates showing the app now, they're not going to be as lucrative as they were, so it may not be worth going to too much trouble for them anymore.
In any case, it feels like I'm doing a little better managing money matters, especially now that I can use my magic lunchbox to bring frozen dinners instead of paying to eat out all the time. And having a cushion in my savings has helped me a <i>lot</i> over the last few months, when I accidentally overdrew my checking account a few times. No more zillion-dollar overdraft fees, or scurrying to friends or relatives in search of a temporary loan, yay! The feeling of relief is palpable.
Work is going okay. Now that we're past the peak season, calls are falling off to the point where I have space between calls to relax, most times. It's nice to be able to decompress, though I'm going to miss the ready availability of overtime.
Been getting a friend into <i>RWBY</i>, in such time he has available to watch the show. Ironically, it was right after we got to the part of the show that introduced Vic Mignogna's character, Qrow Branwen, that the big sexual harassment scandal about Vic broke, and suddenly Rooster Teeth announced they'd be recasting his character going forward. That's kind of depressing; Qrow is one of my favorite characters on the show, in large part thanks to the strength of Vic's acting. But going by all the furor, apparently the controversy over Vic's behavior has been going on for a number of years, and it's finally built to the point where it just couldn't be ignored anymore. And if even half of the stories are true, I can understand why a progressive outfit like Rooster Teeth wouldn't want to be associated with him. I hope whoever they get to replace him does a good job.
I suppose that's all I can think of to say right now. Suppose I'll close and maybe write something else later.