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Nov. 19th, 2002 02:59 amStatus on my car: no news. It takes 30 days to process a claim and pay me money (they wait that long to see if car turns up after it gets listed as stolen). My landlord has let me use his car for two full weeks but he needs it all this week, so tomorrow I'll call Enterprise and they will be by within 15 minutes to drop off my economy rental, which will probably be a gutless wonder. But then again it has to be better than what I've been driving. No extra for long miles (like 120+ each way to my parent's in Longview and back for Thanksgiving).
Why would I rent from anyone else? Helps that State Farm said Enterprise was their first choice too. It was really simple to arrange.
NanoWriMo: I haven't worked on my so-called novel. At all.
Ex-Roommate Tom: He came over Sunday and we watched Spiderman. We were going to see Harry Potter but that fell through, and anyway I'm not too excited to go see it really. Tom has a job, he started Sunday too. He's a jet fuel farmer... which has something to do with fueling up airplanes and watching the fuel mixture or something like that. Certainly not his first choice of job (he's a machinist) but it sounds like it probably pays okay. I'm a little worried that he's an NRA gun nut who works in a job that requires security clearance... but you know, they checked him out before they hired him so they must not mind.
Of course, if he were of Middle Eastern descent it might be a different story.
Since Tom is going stir crazy from living with his parents, he gave me next month's rent plus some for the last of this month, and I gave him a key. He's not moving in right away, but will be slowly over the next few weeks. He needs to get a bed and other furniture still, too.
So this means that my rent is now halved... which leaves me a little over $300 extra a month to spend... on new car payments, I guess. =P
I need to get my butt in gear and order cable modem broadband service. With Tom paying half of it, it won't be much more than I'm paying now anyway. ^_^ Then we can geek out and play Eq together and run an extra bot on a third account or something stupid. You know, there are people out there who bot several accounts at once. I met a guy last night who does 3 at a time, but I've heard of people who do up to five. And you thought I was addicted?
I have been playing a lot lately though -- every night. And the main reason is because I have two friends who stay up late to group with me. I've rarely been able to group with anyone at the hours I play, but I've been grouping with these two every night for a couple of weeks. Very fun! ^_^
( So here's my geeky EQ story from last night )
Why would I rent from anyone else? Helps that State Farm said Enterprise was their first choice too. It was really simple to arrange.
NanoWriMo: I haven't worked on my so-called novel. At all.
Ex-Roommate Tom: He came over Sunday and we watched Spiderman. We were going to see Harry Potter but that fell through, and anyway I'm not too excited to go see it really. Tom has a job, he started Sunday too. He's a jet fuel farmer... which has something to do with fueling up airplanes and watching the fuel mixture or something like that. Certainly not his first choice of job (he's a machinist) but it sounds like it probably pays okay. I'm a little worried that he's an NRA gun nut who works in a job that requires security clearance... but you know, they checked him out before they hired him so they must not mind.
Of course, if he were of Middle Eastern descent it might be a different story.
Since Tom is going stir crazy from living with his parents, he gave me next month's rent plus some for the last of this month, and I gave him a key. He's not moving in right away, but will be slowly over the next few weeks. He needs to get a bed and other furniture still, too.
So this means that my rent is now halved... which leaves me a little over $300 extra a month to spend... on new car payments, I guess. =P
I need to get my butt in gear and order cable modem broadband service. With Tom paying half of it, it won't be much more than I'm paying now anyway. ^_^ Then we can geek out and play Eq together and run an extra bot on a third account or something stupid. You know, there are people out there who bot several accounts at once. I met a guy last night who does 3 at a time, but I've heard of people who do up to five. And you thought I was addicted?
I have been playing a lot lately though -- every night. And the main reason is because I have two friends who stay up late to group with me. I've rarely been able to group with anyone at the hours I play, but I've been grouping with these two every night for a couple of weeks. Very fun! ^_^
( So here's my geeky EQ story from last night )
