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Stimulated
Apr. 15th, 2020 11:09 amAt about 1:30 a.m. last night, the $1200 stimulus payment hit my bank account. Thank goodness for direct deposit, so I don't have to wait for a certain someone to have his name printed on the check, huh? Some people seem to think that this will be taken right back out of this year's taxes, but various resources online say it won't. Either way, I'm not in immediate need of it, since I'm still working my regular job. So I threw it into my savings account, with an extra $100 just because I have the balance on hand. This significantly more than doubled what I had in there already. I'm not exactly the best at saving money, especially since last year's Gen Con depleted a few hundred bucks out of it. :P
Now, of course, there are all kinds of things I could spend that money on. I could buy another 49cc motor scooter with it for help getting around now that BlueIndy's kaput. Or, for a safer alternative, I could get that e-bike sitting in my garage the last couple of years reconditioned and have new batteries put on it. That may be the way I'll go, especially since a neighbor has been talking about getting an old car of his fixed up so I can use it for things that require motor transportation. But there's no hurry, and I've got time to look into possibilities. Really, I feel better just knowing I've got a slightly bigger nest egg now for in case unexpected expenses come up.
One thing I just spent a bit of my tax return money on is a new keyboard for my personal computer. My old one finally bit the dust for good, so I looked at Amazon for an inexpensive mechanical model. The one I settled on was this Redragon K556 light-up gaming keyboard for $63, using some of the Amazon gift card balance I put part of my tax refund in. It arrived yesterday, a day earlier than expected, and I'm typing on it now. It's not quite as "clicky" as I would have wanted, but it's more than clicky enough to suit for the amount I paid for it. And it's got some rather nifty light patterns—18 of them, in fact. Some of them are relatively static, others light up keys or the keys around them as you type, others send light patterns across the keyboard. Maybe the hardest thing to get used to is that there's no frame around the keys, like on most other keyboards I've used. The keyboard backing stops where the keys end.
Had another weird dream last night. My parents were paying for an online literary criticism class for me, using a Japanese book of short stories. Since paper books were harder to come by in the current situation, it would be downloadable to e-readers. I don't remember what the title of the book supposedly was. I don't think it was meant to be the book of Japanese fairy tales I donated to Project Gutenberg, but something more to do with samurai drama.
Now, of course, there are all kinds of things I could spend that money on. I could buy another 49cc motor scooter with it for help getting around now that BlueIndy's kaput. Or, for a safer alternative, I could get that e-bike sitting in my garage the last couple of years reconditioned and have new batteries put on it. That may be the way I'll go, especially since a neighbor has been talking about getting an old car of his fixed up so I can use it for things that require motor transportation. But there's no hurry, and I've got time to look into possibilities. Really, I feel better just knowing I've got a slightly bigger nest egg now for in case unexpected expenses come up.
One thing I just spent a bit of my tax return money on is a new keyboard for my personal computer. My old one finally bit the dust for good, so I looked at Amazon for an inexpensive mechanical model. The one I settled on was this Redragon K556 light-up gaming keyboard for $63, using some of the Amazon gift card balance I put part of my tax refund in. It arrived yesterday, a day earlier than expected, and I'm typing on it now. It's not quite as "clicky" as I would have wanted, but it's more than clicky enough to suit for the amount I paid for it. And it's got some rather nifty light patterns—18 of them, in fact. Some of them are relatively static, others light up keys or the keys around them as you type, others send light patterns across the keyboard. Maybe the hardest thing to get used to is that there's no frame around the keys, like on most other keyboards I've used. The keyboard backing stops where the keys end.
Had another weird dream last night. My parents were paying for an online literary criticism class for me, using a Japanese book of short stories. Since paper books were harder to come by in the current situation, it would be downloadable to e-readers. I don't remember what the title of the book supposedly was. I don't think it was meant to be the book of Japanese fairy tales I donated to Project Gutenberg, but something more to do with samurai drama.
