Monthly Archives: September 2008

Time to Rollover My Credit Card Debt

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I'm not interested in playing credit card arbitrage, but it looks like I'm going to be engaging in it whether I like it or not. If you notice I updated my debt progress bars… we had to put more money onto another of my credit cards… with a nearly 15% interest rate. This happened for two reasons: 1) Mr. A bought machinery for his business which increased his business debt. Perhaps I shouldn't include his business debt since this is… Read the rest

Electricity in August 2008

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We used slightly more electricity this bill than last year at this time. However, notice that our bill was for 30 days this year, but only 29 last year which actually made our daily average usage less this year than last. Again, I'd rather see it go down a little bit, than up a bunch. 07/21 to 08/20/2008 30 days On Peak Usage 1536 Kwh Off Peak Usage 2141 Total Usage 3677 Monthly Bill $416.17 Daily Average $13.87 Last year:… Read the rest

Labor Day

time is money
Happy Labor Day to all my fellow American workers. Our company provides today as a paid holiday, but I am working from home. I have been working on a project at work for the past *two* years. I'm converting our manual accounting to electronic and the program my company purchased is a good one, but an unknown to the point where it's not possible to get help via the Internet to any real extent. (Read: I can't google my question… Read the rest