February 2007

Sun 4 Feb
In the first of two crazy weekends, I netted nearly a hundred each day. My appointment never came, although I still had four clients.

Mon 5 Feb
It was a profitable weekend, probably the peak of the season. I'll have better numbers once I get online to my new accounts. I called Wachovia online services. This time they gave me a link instead of having to reproduce or paste into the website. I will test it the brief time I'm home between jobs.

Tue 6 Feb Welllllllllllllll!
The link worked, and I reset the user name and password on both my accounts, but Wachovia wiped out the unser name on Mom's accounts. I will have to fix it tonight. I suspected it this morning (I was up after 4 AM) when I attempted to reset the password, only to receive yet another error.
We've had two mornings at -12º with wind. Wilkes-Barre and State College probably near -20º, which is below zero. Both days I took the van to run errands in between.
I began to prepare my tax return. I almost broke even despite the underwithholding of both employers and the extra income on election day The credit for the federal excise tax on long distance service will put me over. The state unemployment insurance had already pushed me into the black from owning $3 to getting $5. I don't think I'll bother with the saver's credit.
Ultimately, my thoughts must return to what my purpose is in life. In ten weeks, such a pruzzle will return much too fast. There is just so much to do.
My new name and the new password for my chekcing account makes me suppose I've grown from my discovery in summer 2004, and I bid that aspect of my life adieu.

Mon 12 Feb
A phishing email from Verizon reulted when I called Verizon about it. They want no updating of my account, and therefore, ther is no threat to service by 20 February.
The weekend had Saturday as a weak link, so the commissions were around $300, instead of the $400

The Calm Before the Winter Storm

Tue 23 Jan
I spent the afternoon arranging the mailroom for the builders, which eliminated my sleeping place. I just finished in time to catch the wrong bus. I totally avoided Block on the way home.

Wed 24 Jan
Mike, the balding blond, ripped up the carpeting on the third of the floor where the cage will be. Meanwhile I took the dogbed outside to the van. I tried to sleep without success, although I feel rested. I went to bed early last night -- again at 9 PM.
After yesterday's physical challenge, my little left toe still hurts where the pallet jack almost rolled on it.

Fir 26 Jan
Philipp sent me an email the first time this year. I'll try to respond quickly.
Jerzees provides less in its bags this year.
Meanwhile, I tried again to sleep in the van, where it's too cold and bright. They put in the cages today, which missed the barbed wire, over where I used to sleep.
Beyond all of it, I don't like the big picture. I am trying to unlock organic chemistry thirty years later as a common crossword puzzle.
Last night I had two minor clients to make my night. I began to call clients from last year, and I began a notebook of clients similar to last year.

Sun 28 Jan
It's been a busy day. I've had four clients, and I'm nearly a c-note ahead net of draw. I bought muffins from Acme, and green tea, raspberry and free, to add to the food for us this Sunday. I arose rather last, nearly eight, and we gave Tim a shower. Last night he was on the floor when I returned home, because he'd slid out of his wheelchair again.
I keep going over in my head what I should be doing before tax season ends -- now eleven weeks away. Everything seems to be on hold for three months.

Yesterday morning I was checking online on my account when I discovered that a "Jessica Fusco" had a "bill" payment for $2200! I took our $2000 from my account to make the check bounce, I informed Wachovia that the check was stolen, and I deleted "Jessica Fusco" from my list of bills to pay.
Later I ran both spyware and antivirus overnight to reveal nothing. Chaning the password to my checking account appears to be sufficient to prevent further occurrences. Because there was no account, the check was issued on Thursday. Probably "Jessica Fusco" will attempt to cash it tomorrow. I checked the other account today, and there were no irregularities.

Last year I attempted to get some things done after tax season, and none went through. I joined DIG, without getting into real estate. I stagnated at Toastmasters. I didn't get anything else going.

Tue 30 Jan
I called for a New Deal on my accounts with Wachovia, because the defrauders probably have both numbers. The sad thought remains that I may have given them the access by updating my account. Everything should be back to normal by next week.
Tonight I will go straight home. Like 104 weeks ago, I stayed lated (10 vs 11), and I couldn't finish the return on the only time of the week I don't come in the next day.
The idea of my illustrating my own books has its appeal How Can I tap into that creativity?

Wed 31 Jan
I was contemplating the virtual adventures I had in schoolwork, and I wondered whether I could invent some kind of illustration with the kind of "fun". The reality that I have no purpose in life is existentially nauseating!
I took three chairs out into the mezzanine and snoozed some fifiteen minutes. I can't do yoga, for the truck driver is painting a section of the mailroom floor.

Unhappy Ominous Year

Mon 1 Jan
Mom continued to act weirdly, once again insisting that she doesn't live here. The achrony seems to expand into atopia. I had an entire day of stress in which I ate little. First it was gas in the colon; now it's malaise.
I did get my calendars done into April. There was nothing else done in the circumstances. I cleaned up a little. but nothing substantial.

Fri 5 Jan
Last night, I'd expected to practice the infamous instant money anticipation.loans; instead, I actually did one. Then I had a regular tax return and the instant money loan went on the card. Even the veterans hadn't dealt with the imals. Because I didn't have my desk at the beginning of my stint, I had to use the adjacent one. Then I remembered, as I was walking though Franklin Mills on my way home, that I'd left my black jeans at Block. I will get them tonight.

Sun 7 Jan
Yesterday, I took down the outside lights for Christmas, and I began to take down balls off the main tree. Today I continued clearing the platform in preparation of taking down the tree. My own decorations will endure for another week.

Mon 8 Jan
The visit to our main doctor produced a diagnosis of mild dementia in the early stages of Alzheimer's. He was more concerned about the visits to the other doctors, rather than any mental problems. I will schedule them for Mom later.

Thu 11 Jan
Last night I had a Celtic client, who made my day. I stopped at the calendar place, in the green neighborhood this year. I bought a Mensa desk calendar for the clients and a wall calendar from the Old Farmer's Almanac. My schedule for the next Muslim week at Block is the same as this one.
Yesterday afternoon produced a question on organic chemistry. I was in reactions of alcohols on Morrison and Boyd. In 16.6 Alcohols as acids, I did not remember the concepts from that section, not 16.7. Formation fo alkyl sulfates. I think the problem lies in how I take in information. I was no longer able to memorize all the material. I had to learn the concepts as extracted from the text! I was doing it better the next year in history and the business courses.

Sun 14 Jan
I spent much of yeaterday and this morning taking down the Christmas decorations. I didn't quite get up the ones for February.
It's another boring Sunday at Block. I came in late only to find that the IRS is accepting returns electronically, but they are not accepting them immediately.

Wed 17 Jan
I bought the pills Monday night, and Mom began to take them yesterday. She took way too many memantines -- a dosage for three day. So I laid out the pills this morning.
Tuesday morning I had yet another one of those academic dreams, in which I am taking a test without preparation. I interpret it to mean I'd rather be academic instead of having life had me the test before the lesson.

Sun 20 Jan
THE MIDWINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT
Here we sit in the middle of winter, in the middle of Schrub's second term,. 731 days left to suffer and curse the rednecked states.

Sun 21 Jan
I just went over the protoreturn, and I'll miss the saver's credit this year by about $420. I should have started my roths last year! It only shows how much more I should be doing for personal finance.
I had yesterday off, and who knos how long it will last. Peak arrives on Wednesday, or management thinks.

Mon 22 Jan
On this thrityeighth anniversary of my first job, I just discovered that I owe them about $70, once I drop the credit on the taxes on long distance.