Stuff from Work

[azurelunatic]

10:53 AM 2/13/2007
Vash is with the repair d00d. My whole day is thrown off balance.

11:03 AM 2/13/2007
Instead of braving the bus system again, they had a shuttle. Hooray shuttle! I got dropped right off at work, and that makes me happy.

And it was raining. That also makes me happy. (If I ever re-locate, rain is going to be a priority.)

11:32 AM 2/13/2007
In retrospect, it makes a lot of sense that the LF is ADHD. I was trying to work with his limitations, even though I didn't understand them. Marx was trying to punish the ADHD out of him. Ha. No wonder it didn't work.

12:24 PM 2/13/2007
It already feels like a Thursday. (Never could get the hang of Thursdays.)

1:24 PM 2/13/2007
Estimate so far is under my deductible. I let the guy know that I would like to retain the broken pieces from the other vehicle as trophies. *snerk* Vash's driver is ... not nice. Not when things like this are concerned.

1:31 PM 2/13/2007
Waiting for upload to finish. Bah humbug. This stuff is taking up my morning when I should have been doing other fun stuff.

1:37 PM 2/13/2007
Still waiting for things to do things. Cleaning out my e-mail.

2:24 PM 2/13/2007
More things doing things; updating things that needed things updating. Scary things.

Silly dental lab didn't get the crown right. The fit was perfect. The color, not so much so.

3:43 PM 2/13/2007
wtf. Estimate OMG ESTIMATE.

4:25 PM 2/13/2007
OK. All the cracktastic part of the paperwork should be over, and I should get into the good bits now, the parts where I do not have to scream, cry, and beat people. Ms. < Apples was visiting me earlier this afternoon, and had to be told that she needed to bring a job number with her when she was coming to ask me a question about something, and that the two job numbers she wanted me to add to the chart were already there, which could have been prevented if she had BROUGHT THE JOB NUMBERS WITH HER BLOODY FRICKIN' HELL. (Snarky Lady likes her. This is because she is sweet and invades people's personal spaces, and Snarky Lady does not have to actually work with her.)

4:31 PM 2/13/2007
Management said in that meeting the other day that we might just be able to get parent/child job numbers. GLEE.

Comments

[kdorian.livejournal.com]

I'm planning on retiring in western Washington. Living in or near a temperate rain forest sounds spiffy to me!

[azurelunatic]

Indeed!

I'm torn, though. I want a nice climate that is cool with rain, but I'm also fairly tied to the family property back in Alaska. I know I'll be inevitably going back there sometime after Dad dies.

[kdorian.livejournal.com]

My family is mostly in W. WA (those that are gathered anywhere - we're a pretty scattered bunch). I'm not thinking I'm going to get any inheritance from either of my parents - my dad lives off his social, and my mom is buying books like "how to die broke". My grandad gave each of "the girls" money to be used and eventually passed on to the grandkids, but he didn't know my mother as well as he thought. *Rueful grin*

[azurelunatic]

It's a nice piece of land. My dad was a programmer when that was Hot Stuff, and managed his retirement carefully. I have a sister, but I don't think she's going to go back home.

I want to get set up so that I'm making enough money to support living in a nice temperate place *and* maintain the property back home, and live there from time to time, but I don't know if I can get into that financial place before Dad dies, especially since I'm trying to hack my way into there from the ground up, in essence.

[kdorian.livejournal.com]

I hear that. My official goal is to have a little tiny house on a piece of land in the woods. Sometimes, though, I think I'll do well to have a little extra to supplement the social security.

[azurelunatic]

I have a bit put away from my First Real Job in a 401k, and at my next raise come December-ish, I'm planning to start a 401k from this job too, and put a proportion equal to the amount of the raise into that. That way I won't notice it. Or do it when I get my computer paid off, whichever comes first.

[kdorian.livejournal.com]

You have a plan! This is good!

Where as I have hit the big 4-0 with less than $2k saved for retirement. >_

[azurelunatic]

That is ow.

I'm swiftly gaining on 27, so the years are to my advantage, happily.

[kdorian.livejournal.com]

Ow is right. I think my best investment option at this point involves lottery tickets.

I have been saving - and as a reward for my diligence in getting enough in my saving account that I was starting to look for higher-value investments, since that gave me enough backup, I was rewarded with the need to completely replace the roof and a very, very sick cat.