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U2 – New Years Day

Sometimes it feels like no matter how much money you make you STILL have money problems. I assume this is because people have some sort of standard of living, which causes them to use a consistant percentage of their income, no matter what that income is. I mean, take a look at my parents, they made less than I am living on now, and managed to take care of themselves and three kids… of course we didn’t have a lot of money, but we were happy, and we were never starving, we always had what we needed. Now Myk and I only have the two of us to support and we still have weeks were we just dont have much money. Of course this is because we live in a nice place, spend money when we need to (my parents they saved up for EVERYTHING), and we do tend to enjoy going out to eat and spending money with friends.

The point of that money rant? We realized last night that we really will not have enough money to go up to New York for thanksgiving. See, a few unexpected expenses came up… I need to go to the eye doctor and get new glasses so I can pass my PA License exam (which i NEED to get since I will be on Myk’s insurance as a resident of PA), plus Myk’s Jeep needs a tune-up and oil change before we go anywhere… and I have another doctor’s appointment tomorrow (none of this is on insurance, but i need this appointment now)… So it adds up to not having the money to go on a vacation right now. All those plans… seeing some family I haven’t seen in years, meeting some new family… Star Wars in the IMAX! No go %( Plus we wont be able to fix my Aunt Elaine’s computer like I said we’d do while we are up there. Maybe we can go up for Easter or something…

*Sigh* I should really get a job…

I am so depressed.

Oh well, things arent all bad. I installed Eterm yesterday. It’s really nice actually, and I can paste from Opera to here! Oh and I did some research on the whole cut and paste problem… apparently Opera uses Qt (I knew this) and the problem with the pasting as to do with the qt libs, which have been upgraded in testing, but not in my stable debian version. There is no way to fix this without breaking things, so I guess I’ll just have to deal with using Eterms instead of gnome terms for a while *shrugs* it’s not so bad. The only problems really with Eterm is it has an option for being transparent… but no shading, and since the middle of my desktop background is too bright to write over this causes problems, so I just have a plain black background. It’s ok really, just not so cool looking ;) And it seems to have trouble with arrow keys in vim. Heh, yeah, I am one of those people who just can’t get used to using vim-keys %P .. well this is not actually a bad thing really, I am going to force myself to use Eterm with vim so I learn the vim-keys! Yeah, the only way I will learn is if I am forced to do it %P To help me with this I also changed my Enlightenment keybindings, removing arrow keys from the navigation of the desktop and replacing them with vimkeys (Myk has done this for quite some time now… but i think he still has arrowkeys bound), so now I HAVE TO use vimkeys even then… I will become a vim expert yet ;)

Hmmm, Myk just showed me wterm… this is promising as well.

*wanders off to work on stuff*

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