Someone Must Hate Me?

It was evil hot in house as afternoon came and I opened the entry door. When sun 'shifted' enough I sawed moulding for master bath. Mother wanted me to do that for her. Father never got around to it when he put in ceramic tile. I was supposed to do the tile for him but he started while I was asleep! He could do some things but was going down hill. He didn't want to feel 'useless'. I had already finished the sink install for him. Not sure when this was. It was years ago, however.

Once she saw I had modest handyman skill... she asked. It was years after the tile install. The moulding would've been done this year with her new carpet, tile in the new master entry & painted bedroom.

So... anyway I was putting in floor moulding in master bath that I had cut this afternoon. By then it was early evening, maybe 6pm. I put fresh clip of nails into my nail gun and it stopped working! I got annoyed. Felt persecuted. Knew Mother might have said, "Stop for now; we'll get a new one tomorrow!" They are not that cheap ($50?) and this one is only a couple years old and not seen what I would call a lot of use. I'm still using my first box of nails! As much a I remember, it has not been dropped? I might take it apart to see if there is obvious problem with it. It had 1 year warranty. :/

While he was watering, neighbor convinced me I could hammer the gun's nails? So I used "needle nose" pliers to hold tiny nails while I used hammer! It was not easy. Bath is not roomy! I then did wood filler where there were gaps (walls are gay--not str8--so gaps happen even with good measuring & cutting).

Now I am online seeing good news from teh Duckie about gammaduckie but am starved! I will prolly loiter online a bit. Must pay evil cable bill or no internet! :D

I might do caulking. I put the moulding with a 'gap' in case there is a flood. Brother will probably say, 'Why did you do that? It sucks!'

Earlier today I made some calls and went online checking for more places to get estimate on lawn. You know this if you read the prior entry! But... I made a couple other calls. One wanted $65 for an estimate. If the estimate's not free, it's not for me! They do that so you'll feel obligated to use them because the fee goes towards project cost. Yet another place wanted $2500 for a complete landscape plan and that included no work, just a plan and pre-approved contractors. Pff.

So it's after midnight. I paid the cable bill. Anyway, I was wondering when the power bill is due. I go online and WTF? It suggests June's wasn't paid and July's was sent out and is due in three days! OK. I would know if I had gotten the power bill or not. WTF is going on here? First water company says, "OMG You didn't pay!" and I go online to see "OMG, maybe you did pay!" Now I see I'm not getting the power bill? That's insane. Something is definitely wrong here. I must investigate further!

OK, I think maybe the water bill thing is "true" but how I didn't pay for two months and still have water makes no sense (if true). I'll go to the bank tomorrow I guess so I can pay it next week before it is due. It seems if you make a payment online they stop sending paper bills! There's no option to change that. How stupid! You have to cancel your online pay account each time you use it so you keep getting paper bills. I've gotten only one email notice telling me there was a new water bill online and that was last week and my junk email filter marked it junk so I didn't see it. That doesn't explain May or June, however. For now, I'll assume I screwed up.

I'm not used to handling all the bill paying online and so forth. Mother was good bill payer. She would sit down once a month and pay all bills that were not setup as automatic pay. I used to pay each bill as it came in. That was good for me. Very easy. Now that I have more bills with Mother gone and money tightened, I got lazy and kept calendar to pay bills throughout month as needed? I think I will simplify my bills. I want to pay down my credit card. Student loan(s) are almost paid off. Might pay those just to get it off of the books? What else? Hmm... After those there is just monthly expenses: food, health care, water, power. Mortgage? It would be good to get health care via employer instead of paying so much out of pocket. That is $300/month. I could just go without! Or find cheaper plan? Maybe when I'm at 'ideal weight' I can get cheaper plan? Will keep that in mind... goal being to reduce health care expense which is higher than food, water & power!

On the not sending paper bills if you've signed up to pay a bill online, that isn't the case with the power bill though which has be wondering what's going on there. Crazy crap!