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Monday, September 16, 2013

interesting september...walkingabout.....unemployment...etc...sigh....







Greetings all.....been a bit since i last blogged..with good reason.....I had an interesting start to September this year...I got laid off...harrumph! oh well..so be it.....such is life...i guess......Ive been looking for a job ever since..what? 3 weeks now? i guess....and i have decided to scale back on job hunting and start my own business...it was a business i had years and years ago and gave up to go to work a the office supply....which by now has changed and been up and down so many times its not even close to being recognizable to the original version of the place.....nothing can compare to the original........anyway..i am starting...or trying to start my computer repair business again....hopefully with more success this time...hopefully....i made up some business cards and am working on a small flyer to put around town......and i even signed up for one of those little credit card readers that plug into your phone...doesn't anything to sign up...but there is a fee every time a card is swiped..i can lie with it i guess...assuming i can make enough to turn my phone back on...lol! i assume it will work over WiFi as well.. but not all WiFi spots are unsecured...we'll soon find out i guess......she couldn't have picked a worse time to lay me off either......closing in on winter, this town pretty much closes down...sigh...i"ll make the best of it...really i will....and its a good thing it happened on some levels...mainly, my shoulders and back and neck etc can heal now that i'm not carrying and moving heavy furniture....i was hurting big time......i'm feeling a bit better now tho..Ive had a couple weeks rest....I probably should turn her in..but i never got hurt and ended up in the hospital so it way be hard to impossible to prove anything..i still may look into it.....  as you may have noticed, the picture above shows a very nice day....well, it was a nice day...and a day i have been waiting for for over a year..or more..i lost track.....the folks were out of town..i wasn't working...heh... so i decided to go for a walk....I walked to the post office, then the dollar store, then home..it was a nice change of pace..i was working 6 days a week and busy at home and never had time to do anything fun......glad that's all changed now........I'M FFFFFFRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! roflmao!!!!! well.....more accurately.....I'M FFFFRRRRREEEEEEE AND PISS POOR!!!!!!!!! lol!!!  hopefully gonna change the piss poor part soon enough!!! here's to hoping!!!! its been monumentally cool, almost cold at nights, and some days lately....i love it..been raining quite a bit as well......I love the rain!!! not sure if i mentioned this in my last blog, but i got a screaming deal on some radio equipment..ive added a couple antennas and an older Kenwood transceiver to my haul.......lets see.. i got a yaesu ft-90 transceiver, a couple external speakers, 2 swr meters, multimeter, cb radio tester..lol! and a few other things..for like 50 bucks! a fellow ham passed away and his widow sold a friend in the club all his stuff....so Ive bveen picking and choosing..Oh! and a really cool soldering station and circuit board clamp!  a good haul me thinks!!! well, back to finishing my flyer, then i have to find my tools.....i have no clue where my tool pouch got to...... been a few years since Ive seen it =) I also have to put some stuff on a zip drize to carry around....so much to do so little time!! until next time.....