The ScooterBlog

Wanna know how much they suck? Here’s the litany:

* So you’re supposed to get money back from taxes, right? Nope, not in my case … I owe $500! I think I hit bracket creep, and each job took out from my taxes what I was supposed to take out for that amount of income, which when combined, was not enough, so Uncle Sam gets to bend me over this year, and force me to like it. And oh yeah, Ohio is messing with their tax code again. Bleh!

* The famed car bill … all the maintenance I should have had done between now and 100,000 miles crammed into one single huge maintenance trip. $1,000 later (and a little help from the dad, whom I’ll need to take care of in the next couple of weeks), I’m REALLY broke!

* On top of that, the frame to my futon is starting to wear down, thus, I’m going to need to either replace it ($150) or get something nicer ($400-$500 for a nice bed)

So all in all, between 2/1 and 2/8, I’ve gained some $2,000 in bills. Not exactly my idea of a great financial month!

Still all good … cause life with Danielle is still good … and that matters more then the money ever will!

So my computer has succumb to, as I have now read, one of the few bugs that the iBook has: the logic board problem with the video. What it means is that I have to send my iBook away (through the Apple Store, and thank goodness for the Apple Store!) for a week for it to be repaired, and I’m without my laptop. The good news? It’s free, and let me tell you, I need anything that’s free right now.

So while it may be a cursed little iBook, hey, I can back it up (I am right now with SuperDuper), save my stuff, and get a working iBook back. I guess if I was really adventurous (or if I had the time, and with my Mac, the answer is neither!), I could try something like PearPC or CherryOS if it was out or an emulator, but since it’s my data that’s now only backed up once, I don’t think I want to even be that crazy!

Oh well … back to WebMail for me for a week (bleh!)