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Okay, S’s work week ended well, with more perks on the way… he not only has a laptop, but also has a cellphone now, too… saw Tony online twice in the last 2 days – he never contacted me, nor did I message him. Funny how he’s going online a bit more, after I sent a letter (last month) that I was leaving the net… dammit.

Spoke to Spring… she and Johnny are having some relationship problems… *sighs*

Decker is sick, I think… he yelps sporadically, for no apparent reason… his eyes look like he’s in pain, some of the time – at other times, he looks as happy as a clam, typical Decker look. About a week ago, he was drinking a LOT of water – I must have filled the water dish 4-6 times a day, and the Shelties were thirsty, because Decker was drinking most of it before they could get a drink! Sometimes, when he follows me, he walks with his hind quarters “tucked” a little bit, tail tucked to his belly… other times, he walks normally – tail resting normally or carried over his back as it should… and I have no idea what’s going on….

Oh! Forgot to mention too, one of the perks with S’s new job – he has a laptop! So no more need to share my puter with him! Tonight, he was at the site of the makers of the equipment he needs to learn about, studying their documentation.

Still need to write a letter to MCI about that erroneous long-distance charge on my bill. I don’t care if they claim since it was a 3-hour call it HAD to be direct dialed from here. NO ONE called Canada, and I ain’t paying a long distance call for almost $150.00 when I didn’t make the call!

Well, I wrote Unity an email tonight and told them the contract they submitted to me was unacceptable. I informed them I was working on my own ToS and would send a copy to them, as soon as it’s completed. I’m giving them quite a few freebies, as it is — and they want more. However, I honestly believe it’s more due to the fact that they simply don’t understand, web design or hosting. We’ll see now…

I also wrote a letter to Fulton County, on that bogus back child support crap. For christ sake, are they so stupid they can’t even do simple math? They’re claiming I owe child support on my minor children… the “alleged” minor children will be 21 in a few months! I have to get those morons to understand, this is yet another attempt the ex-louse is making, to find out where I am and to cause me problems.

S talked at length tonight, about concerns with his job, too… he’s a bit worried that he might be in over his head. The job uses equipment he’s never used before, so therefore has no real experience with… but I do have confidence in him. It’s a challenge, and he excells at challenges…

I started working on my domain pages again, today. Since I can’t seem to get that neat DHTML side-menu to work in the BoS pages, I’ve made some buttons for the links. I’ll make the actual pages, later today. I told S I’m going to try to do my online stuff, while he’s at work, so he can use my puter after he gets home from work, to chat and what not. We’ll see how that works out… already looks like a real “winner,” since I haven’t been able to fall asleep, and I told him to get me up before he leaves for work!!!

Got to chat with Sonja_Bleu for a little bit tonight… been watching a lot of TV lately, and doing some reading. Other then that, nothing new.

S got the job!!! Better pay then IBM had him at, downside is – no benefits for 3 months. But, he’s a very healthy guy, so that shouldn’t be a problem. My check finally showed up, too. Then, the damn bank (I  HATE  Bank of America!) wouldn’t cash the check (I needed cash to pay the rent) They wanted to hold the check for 5 days – even tho my Nov check is in the bank – because, get this… they didn’t “know” the bank it was drawn on. Damn morons! It’s a government check! I guess they thought the state of Ohio might go bankrupt…. So, I withdrew all of my money. I’m sick of that bank. They’ve made so many errors with my account – then charge ME for them!

Obviously, I’ve pulled an all-nighter again, although S was on my puter and I watched TV. Didn’t think I’d have a chance to get on tonight, at all, and Gilligan’s Island was NOT going to keep me awake. So I came in to goto bed, and within 5 min’s, S got off my puter. So, I got up and trained my aliens… sheesh, all of this time away from them, not having steady training, they’re both growing very weak and loosing most battles they fight.

I re-subscribed to LOTH and DD egroups today, although I’m not ready to compete since I’m wanting to make some really big changes to my domain. But, with S starting work on Monday, I’ll be able to get some of the design work done in the daytime now. And, since he’s positive it’s my Win98 screwing up and not the motherboard, I bought the tape back-up drive today, but still need to buy the actual tapes. Then he’ll be able to make the complete back-up, and scrub/re-install Win98. Like I already told Sonja_Bleu, my puter will be down for 1 day for him to do all that to it.

S did better then he thought, on the phone interview – the job is between him and one other guy. He goes in for a F2F interview at 1:30 today, and he’ll know by Friday if he got the job – start date is Monday. The man who gave him the phone interview said the company is highly interested in education, and asked if he’d have a problem going in for certs. Of course S said he’d love that – he’s very interested in gaining certs! Carmen (interviewer) asked which cert he’d be interested in attaining forst, and S told him the top 2 he’d like to get…

Got a bit of an apologetic email from Mom today, too… unfortunately, I know it won’t last… she still has no clue what true financial problems are…

Okie, finally this month is over… damn PERS to hell, for ruining my fav month & holiday, any way! But, things should start looking up again now… my Nov check should be available to me, my Oct check is allegedly in the mail – so I can pay rent and get us caught up on our bills, and buy food… S has a phone interview in a few hours *fingers crossed* It’s for a 3 month contract.

I really have to make some decisions on this Unity contract, too… I didn’t think it was too bad, personally, but S pointed out a few things to me, that really aren’t advantageous towards/for me… *sighs* I need to read some more contracts and get one of my own written up.

Again, got an email from Mom, and all it managed to do was piss me off… she asked what I did for Halloween. *sighs* The woman obviously has no clue, isn’t listening, whatever – I can’t get it thru her head… we had several days where we couldn’t afford to buy food at all, didn’t eat for 3 days straight. How the hell am I gonna come up with money to buy candy for trick-or-treaters or to do anything?!?! Get REAL! My dogs have lived on rice for a week, for crying out loud…

Goddess, give me strength…

I was sitting here playing a game, and was filled with such an unbelievably strong feeling of rage… the injustice of life just kinda smacked me in the face again. Nothing in particular happened, just thinking about this past month is all. Jyl’s illness… S being fired… my check not showing up… Springy getting an eviction notice… the dogs being ill… S not finding a job… Rick & Jyl selling their house at such a huge financial loss… Tony never bothering to contact me… Mom throwing bob in my face continually… the bill collectors harrassing us… the assholes from Fulton County STILL going after me for alleged back child support… WILL IT NEVER END?!?!?!?!?

Not much going on, mainly letting S spend as much time as he wants, on my puter… with no job (hence, no money coming in) no puter (and still has to pay the loan off) and all, well… he needs his chat time and time to research jobs online. Talked to Mom earlier, on the phone – as usual (lately) all it did was piss me off. Again, all she could do was compare various people to my ex! I am so sick of this, I don’t want to think of the man – and she, herself, has “lectured” me on not allowing him to invade my thoughts, that by doing so, it gives him power, allows his negative energy to work against me. I feel that way too, which is one of the reasons I’ve worked so hard to keep him OUT of my thoughts… in the last 2-3 weeks, she’s brought him up to me, one way or another, in almost every phone conversation and email…

Talked to Springy for a few moments too… things are bleak for them, as well… they’re facing possible eviction. Only good news was, she has a new job. Damn…

K, on my puter… S figured the network card was going screwy. Replaced it and now the puter is acting better. Although he still wants to back everything up and clean/scrub the hard drive and re-install everything from scratch…

Went on a job interview today, will know more sometime this week… it’s a 3 mo contract, is all I know. Spring phoned finally – things are looking bleak for them. She said they just got an eviction notice… *sighs*

Haven’t done much work on Scribes Canvas… got the Unity contract today – S feels it’s really putting the screws to me… will try to come up with a better contract to fax back to them. Oh! PERS phoned today – they got the check mailed back to them, so will (finally) mail my Oct check to me… like I said weeks ago, I’ll get my Oct check in Nov….