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17 years ago
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...it can get the internet-access turned back on.
Internet got cut off for about a week. And a few other things as well went by the wayside to free up funds to pay the actual neccessities in my life.
Unlike some folks, I don't joke when I say I'm in financial strife, and I actually know what being broke/poor is like (anyone else who's family lived in a 1976 GMC van for a year, please raise a paw...).
You'll understand if I don't pity the OMG-too-poor-to-go-to-a-convention folks.
If it wasn't for :
Swampwulf: (thanks again, man. I owe you more than I can give, honestly) and a a couple of very special women, I would have been a very hungry coyote, and would not have been able to make it in to work for that same week (commute=gas=money=oh-sh*-).
Which means I'd be unemployed, and in very dire straits right now.
As it is, hopefully things will be looking up, but my optimism bone is broken, so it's hard to convince myself of such. At the very least, I'll be able to pay down some of the other bills that have built up, and keep the humans out side the door (heh) for awhile longer.
Assuming I can keep my shit together for a few weeks/months (it's hard, sometimes, no joke), and assuming my boss isn't a lying c**t, then after that, things really might start looking up.
Still have to move to a smaller den (unless someone totally awesome in Calgary happens to want to room with a couple of fur-fags for about $500/month), and still have to cut some corners in the what's-nice-but-not-needed category, but eventually their should be smooth sailing somewhere in my future. Hopefully before winter.
Ye Gods, I hate winter. I'm a 'morose motherf***er' (to quote a friend) at the best of times, and add to that financial troubles, a job transfer and a death in the family, and winter will be way too much for this dog to handle.
It's a shit deal, and might sound melodramatic, but at least I know my limitations. Sometimes, I really can't cope, and there's nobody left to help me much these days. :P
Oh, and there's still a couple of sketch commissions I'm willing to do if anyone wants to help a dog out. If not, well... Meh. Anyway, peace-out fuzzballs. Hopefully you're having a better time of things than I.
Internet got cut off for about a week. And a few other things as well went by the wayside to free up funds to pay the actual neccessities in my life.
Unlike some folks, I don't joke when I say I'm in financial strife, and I actually know what being broke/poor is like (anyone else who's family lived in a 1976 GMC van for a year, please raise a paw...).
You'll understand if I don't pity the OMG-too-poor-to-go-to-a-convention folks.
If it wasn't for :
Swampwulf: (thanks again, man. I owe you more than I can give, honestly) and a a couple of very special women, I would have been a very hungry coyote, and would not have been able to make it in to work for that same week (commute=gas=money=oh-sh*-). Which means I'd be unemployed, and in very dire straits right now.
As it is, hopefully things will be looking up, but my optimism bone is broken, so it's hard to convince myself of such. At the very least, I'll be able to pay down some of the other bills that have built up, and keep the humans out side the door (heh) for awhile longer.
Assuming I can keep my shit together for a few weeks/months (it's hard, sometimes, no joke), and assuming my boss isn't a lying c**t, then after that, things really might start looking up.
Still have to move to a smaller den (unless someone totally awesome in Calgary happens to want to room with a couple of fur-fags for about $500/month), and still have to cut some corners in the what's-nice-but-not-needed category, but eventually their should be smooth sailing somewhere in my future. Hopefully before winter.
Ye Gods, I hate winter. I'm a 'morose motherf***er' (to quote a friend) at the best of times, and add to that financial troubles, a job transfer and a death in the family, and winter will be way too much for this dog to handle.
It's a shit deal, and might sound melodramatic, but at least I know my limitations. Sometimes, I really can't cope, and there's nobody left to help me much these days. :P
Oh, and there's still a couple of sketch commissions I'm willing to do if anyone wants to help a dog out. If not, well... Meh. Anyway, peace-out fuzzballs. Hopefully you're having a better time of things than I.
I only know you from on-line, but I think you're a fighter, & you'll never go under. That sounds trite & stupid, but it isn't meant that way.
Never lived in a car for an extended period or from necessity. I've had adventures in poverty, but they were all "voluntary"; i.e., I chose to be poor rather than rely on handouts from my rich parents or pursue careers I hated.
I hate winter with a passion, which made living in Iowa for 10 years a hellish proposition. I was in Alaska this past May. I don't know how the people up there do it. Glad I live in a place now where we really don't have winter. (But I miss hills and basements, two things which are impossible in the Carolina Lowcountry/Sea Island habitat.
Best, w.