I forgot to mention another small victory of the weekend: yesterday I paid off my credit card. No more flying debt! I feel very free.
I wasn't going to do this now, because it takes my savings below where I like them to be, but I'd rather pay the interest to me than to a credit card company. So now I have to be nice to my boss (just in case!) until I get the savings back where I want them.
They're still a bit above the amount I spent when I was out of work in 2001, so I don't have to be too nice.
On the downside, I learned yesterday while inspecting it after an oil change and car wash, that my little car is bearing scars from JournalCon (more precisely, from the drive there). There were several paint chips on the hood; I don't remember seeing them before so I think it must have happened when a car ahead of me had a rear tire more or less explode, and a few pieces (small ones, fortunately) bounced up onto my hood and roof.
Posted by dichroic at October 31, 2005 12:48 PM