Saintly Updates

So here's the news:

Andrea and I have moved out of the Hellhole that was the house in Donelson. We have moved into a nice apartment complex off of Murfreesboro Road. It's not new, but it's nice and well run. It even has a pool (for those of you in my area that want to come and take a dip, bring your swimsuit.) I will write more about the Pain that Was, but I just wanted to let everyone know that we are fit and hale.

Th-th-th-That's All Folks.

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Saintly Midnight Musings

Well, it was a typical day today.  I woke up, did some of my homework, watched the landlord's grandmother and made sure she was fed and watered both in the morning and afternoon.  So I fark off to school, and it's the usual day.  Nothing of note.  Then yr. humble blogger gets home...

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Then all hell breaks loose.  No sooner have I gotten home then W. (one of the landlords) got a call from his sister.  His mother went to sleep and didn't wake up.  So yours' truly drove him over there, because that's what I do and that's how I roll.  I get there, drop him off, give hugs and such to those that need it, and I get sent on my merry way while he takes care of things over at his sisters' house.

So I get home, thinking everything is swell...no sooner have I got my coat off than I get a call from R. (the other landlord)  Apparently, he is skint broke and needs to come home.  Apparently W. and his sister are getting into a donnybrook over at her house, and R. needs to get home and can he borrow some money to get a bus ticket.  (I am deliberately leaving some of the details out, mainly because it's a farkarow and... well, let's just say it a mess and leave it at that.)

So he asks me, I say no, I don't have it.  He asks me to ask Andrea if she can float it.  I have a good feeling I know what the answer is.  No.  Not because we don't care, and not because we're heartless, but because We're Broke!  He says he's gonna pay us back, but it's rare when we have loaned money that we have been paid back.  And don't get me started on what he owes Andrea for watching his grandmother.  She was getting paid less than minimum wage by my calculations. 

 

Basically, I want to help, but I am helped out.  How're we gonna help when we can barely help ourselves?

 

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Anyway, that's all for now.

 

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Dharma's Musings

So I realize that I haven't posted anything in a while, so I think it's time I update the rest of my folks on here as to what I've been doing.

First, I have enrolled in Kaplan Career Institute here in Nashville.  I am currently into their Comptuer Support Technician program, which covers everything from what you need to know to pass the COMPTIA A+ Certification test (which I will be taking the first part of on the 20th), to Network Fundamentals and I will be learning about Linux (which I already have a leg up on thanks to messing around with Ubuntu) as well as a number of other things which are related to the field. 

My plan is that I get some kind of help desk job, or something related to PC Repair like Best Buy Geek Squad or something similar.  Also, I have been engaged to Andrea since November of last year.  We were planning on getting handfasted at PUF this year, but it wasn't meant to be. See, I got fired from the Burger King at Opry Mills.  They forgot to mention that they print the email of the Area Manager on every receipt.  Apparently someone just didn't like the cut of my jib, so they fired off an email.  I already had some dings on my record, so that was the last one.  Though to be fair, it was probably for the best, since the whole damn mall got flooded out last weekend.

Oh, yeah...I live in Nashville.  We didn't get flooded out, but there were a lot of folks that weren't as lucky.

Where was I?  Oh, right...  So Andrea quit her job at the mall, hadn't been able to work for reasons I won't discuss here for time reasons, but she was able to find work at the Dunkin Donuts at the MTA Bus Station downtown.  So things are more or less looking up.

 

Anyway, that's all I have for now.

 

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Testing the waters...

So I've been puttering around a bit, and found this neat little site called Posterous.  Apparently it posts things automatically for you across your blogs without having to go to each one individually.   So here's me, testing the waters of the blogosphere. 

 

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