Archive for October, 2007
October 11th, 2007
We’re planning on doing a bit of an adventure over Christmas… a long adventure. Should be plenty of photos at least!
It’ll start on the 24th December, when we drive to Berri in Sth Australia for xmas with my family. On the 25th December we’ll drive to Adelaide for xmas with Deidre’s dad. On the 26th December we’ll drive up to Port Augusta to see where I grew up. That should be interesting… On the 28th December we’ll drive back to Berri, where we’ll stay overnight before heading back to Canberra on the 29th December.
October 6th, 2007
It’s the pain of not having the internet that I’m complaining about right now. It feels like I’m living in the past or something, where there’s no internet. I feel out of touch, like the world is moving on without me, and I’m missing out on something.
I guess that’s what happens when a great deal of your life is spent on the net, and then suddenly you don’t have it any more.
October 6th, 2007
It started off great - I woke up! Always a good sign. Even got to work on time! I was pretty busy most of the day, which was ok, but then it went to hell around 4pm.
I was supposed to get a phone call from a technician who would be coming out to our new place - which we’re moving into tomorrow - to tell me when he was going to be there. He was going to install the phone and internet services. I had booked it a month ago, when I found out our new address. I had even phoned them two days ago to confirm it, which they did. So when I rang them at 4pm to find out why I hadn’t been called yet, I was dumbfounded when they told me the technician hadn’t been booked, and I would need to wait at least 2 weeks before they could book one.
October 3rd, 2007
Deidre and I are finding a new perspective lately which is really helpful when deciding what we can do ourselves, and what we can get others to do.
Because we’re moving house, there’s a lot of things that need doing. However, in the past 9 months we’ve moved twice. Once from New Zealand to Canberra, and once again into this house 4 months ago. We’re over moving. Really over it. We’re so over it, we decided we would get others to do the things we just don’t want to do.
So we worked out how much our time was worth.
October 3rd, 2007
Last month I created a net worth spreadsheet for myself, to help me keep track of my asset-to-debt ratio and my net worth - eg. how much I’m worth after taking into account assets vs. liabilities. I was exceptionally pleased with the result!
In the past 9 months, Deidre and I have managed to accumulate about +$118,000 worth of assets. Helping us do that has meant accumulating a level of debt. However, this has only amounted to about -$75,000 worth of debt, leaving a net worth of +$43,000.
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