I am not ready to give up Netflix, not as long as I have the savings to deal with stuff, mac gets so much use of the on demand stuff. Food, though, yeah, I need to get back to cooking a lot more and a lot cheaper.
Well off to bed for now. I am not going to solve all of this tonight.
Wow, about today's Tour de France:
The pace was such that more than half of all riders finished so far behind Schleck that they would normally have been disqualified.
That's crazy. Of course, so was the route today.
Lightsabers! That's so awesome!
Buffistas have cool jobs!
Lightsabers is definitely awesome. Noah would be jealous if he could conceptualize having a job and working on a LucasFilm thing.
Fred Pete:
'ma to you. I'm sure all will be well.
Even with price increases, there is a lot of entertainment value from Netflix. Especially if you use the Instant Watch in your home.
Writing down daily spending and then writing down monthly stuff can let you look with some distance. It made me give up coffee out when it wasn't something amazing. And it made me realize (again) that my cats are not cheap but I'll cut other things happily for them. I won't, however, look at getting another pet when people are looking for new homes for critters.
Have not been watching the Tour de France this year. For no particular reason.
And I think I heard some thunder! I hope that is the portent of some temperature relief.
And I spent tonight installing a new hard drive in my laptop and then installing the software. And (so far) it's working!
I need to see if I can get the Instant Watch on my iPod to work over the hospital network. That would be awesome.
Writing down daily spending and then writing down monthly stuff can let you look with some distance.
I definitely feel that having a budget on paper at the start of the month made me feel like I had more money. And using the envelope system for daily purchases made me very conscious of what I spent money on and took "no, I really can't afford that" decisions out of my hands.