Scattered Thoughts

I actually spent some cash yesterday. I didn't include anything in the post I made yesterday morning because I wasn't 100% sure how much I would be spending. Here's the expense list:

• Speaker Wire – $5.53
• Cheese on my dinner sandwich – $0.21
• Total outflow – $5.74

I also had the usual $2.20 spent on gas getting to and from work yesterday.

That brings the monthly total/averages to the following:

Tuesday, the apartment complex had the flooring guys come in and replace our carpet. The new hardwood laminate floor is awesome! When I got home from work, both cats were cowering in my bedroom. Me, thinking that Roark would be ok coming to visit, pulled him out, walked into Jimi's room to see what he was up to and as soon as I got into the living room, Roark tore the crap out of my hand and ran into Jimi's room, under his bed. Moral of the story is that cats don't like loud noises, and we have a new floor everywhere but our bedrooms and bathrooms.

The project that has been consuming me at work is about to draw to a close for now. I've been sitting on the IU Web Content Management System (WCMS) committee since this summer. We're looking at WCMS's that would fit the needs of the IU community. My most recent assignment coming out of that group was to develop a 2-day training session on an open source WCMS — eZ Publish. Don't let the name fool you, it's nothing but eZ… It's one of the least user-friendly WCMS's I've ever seen.

Nonetheless, the training is being done the week of the 24th, so I'll be a little less stressed after that. When the WCMS stuff is over, I'll be focusing on Flash. I thought I'd never say this, but I am actually looking forward to finishing the new Flash curriculum.

Hopefully I'll get out and get some geocaching done next week. I need to get outside, I've got a really bad case of the winter blues… It'll also give me something interesting to take photos of for the photoblog. I miss both those things (photography and geocaching) and am looking forward to running around outside with my camera.

Now all I need is someone to run around outside looking for little pieces of crap hidden in boxes…

That's all I have time to write now.

I don't want to learn what I'll need to forget

Just a quick $5 a day update before I teach this afternoon…

Monday & Tuesday = now cash outflows yet. That's four days that I've spent nothing and lived on leftovers from last month. Starting today, though, I'll have some expenses.

I went grocery shopping this morning and bought the following:

• Instant oatmeal – 20 servings for $5 – $0.25 a serving (won't be eating this for a few days still)
• Rice – 20 servings for $3.48 – $0.17 a serving
• Cereal – 7 servings for $2.50 – $0.36 a serving
• Soy milk – 16 servings for $2.96 – $0.19 a serving (won't need to use this for a couple days)
• Frozen peas – 20 servings for $2.16 – $0.11 a serving
• Sliced cheese – 23 servings for $4.76 – $0.21 a serving
• Bread – 16 slices for $2.78 – $0.17 a slice
• Eggs – 18 for $2.93 – $0.16 a piece
• 100′ speaker wire – $5.53

The speaker wire is because the wiring for the stereo that I have in the living room is too short to reach the speakers with the new living room configuration.

Gas spent the last two days – $4.40 (to and from work for two days averaging $2.20 a day at $3.09 a gallon)

Let's take a look at the average expenditures through Tuesday night:

That's all I have time to write about now, hopefully I'll get a chance to write more tonight or tomorrow morning.

tm

Would you choose to die in sorrow if you could be remembered after you go?

So Carney was down this weekend, which could've been problematic for the new experiment, but I managed to not spend any money this weekend Horray! I lived on what was in the house already to get ahead a bit. The only thing I spent cash on was the gas it took to get from my apartment to the far east side to pick up one of Carney's friends, then to Hoosier Heights and back. I don't know how many miles that was (because I wasn't paying attention) so I'm going to estimate how much I spent.

So here's the update so far:

As you can see, just like I had guessed, gas expenditures are going to throw me over $5 a day every day.

As I mentioned earlier, Carney was down this weekend. We ended up going to the gym on Saturday which made two days in a row for me, Shotwell and Jessi. For being the second day in a row, I climbed pretty well. I wasn't climbing lights-out, but I wasn't sucking it up either. My endurance is lower than I would like it to be, but with climbing two to three days a week, that should change pretty rapidly.

I'm also going to be getting back to swimming on my lunch break this week. I haven't been able to make it lately because of a last-minute, get-it-done-as-fast-as-you-can project at work. Now that that project is pretty much over (minus the actual training I'm supposed to lead), I'll have more time to get back to the pool.

That's all I'm going to write for now since I have stuff to do.

tm

I love the miles between me and the city.