My computer is slowly dying. I was trying to remember exactly when we got this thing - it's either 11 or 12 years old. It has had constant, daily use for all of that time. I have done several hardware upgrades to it. The original cd's with the drivers and such that came with it were stolen several years ago now and everytime I have to reinstall windows, I have to go to Dell's site, find the drivers and reinstall them.
But it is getting harder. There are several issues with Dell's drivers and Microsoft in attempting to reinstall the drivers. I have heard I can ask Dell to send me the original drivers on CD's and I may just try that, but, it is so old I don't wonder if they'll tell me to - go blow.
I have had recurrent problems on this machine today to the point I reformatted the hard drive and reinstall Windows XP AGAIN, after just having had done that a few days ago.
I simply don't have the money to go buy a new computer. My patience is wearing very thin with this one.
No idea, really, what to do.
The non-paying tenant of whom I left a hand written notice under her door this morning and came home armed with an official 5-day notice after work today - FINALLY left me money on my computer desk. She actually got caught up to this week. I was quite amazed. I was also quite irritated this morning after coming out of my bedroom, seeing that she finally returned (her bedroom light was on) and had not left me anything. At work this morning, I was consumed by it - get rid of her.
Good thing - I have several payments either due or coming up that I cannot afford without having tenants paying me, plus the Marine moving out by the weekend and trying to get another tenant in here, it gets to be a bit much. In fact, it gets to be totally intolerable. Yet, this week, the trailer tenants should be handing me a month's rent and I get paid. On Monday - well probably Tuesday - the other female tenant should be giving me the first half of this month's rent. Yes, I am on her time concerning that, but as long as I get it every 2 weeks I don't care.
Umm, so - my biggest challenge right now is to get another tenant in here, even though the room isn't empty.
As for the computer - well - I don't know of any way to get one excepting to make payments on one, a thing I am very reluctant to get myself into right now.
Sometimes I just sit here and wonder how it is that life is going the way it is. Other times I sit here and think life is grand. I dunno where I am at right now, but it is neither of those things and probably below the former. I get tired of fighting with the issues of life sometimes. I just mean with other people and their lack of respect or sense of responsibility to take care of things that are theirs to deal with. There are "small" irritants around here as well that add up. Like one particular person that uses enough toilet paper in one day for 8 people. Seriously - how often do you see a 1,000 sheet roll of toilet paper just disappear in one day's time? Took a while to figure out who was doing that one..............
I think I'll shut my mouth and go to bed.
G'nite.
ben
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Thursday
Crazy that it's Thursday already.
I have 2 people now intereted in the room. Unfortunately, their intended move-in date if they decided they like the place wouldn't be til' the first.
I'm sorta getting tired of people moving out at odd times during the month and am thinking about changing my move-out policy to reflect state law concerning the matter. My policy is FAR more lenient, hence no laws broken. I always just say "give me at least a week's advance notice", I'm considering saying something like move out at the end of any given month, month paid up.
Simply put, it is almost always easier to find people near the 1st of any next, given month than it is during the middle of it. Even simpler put - life would be so much easier if I didn't have to have tenants, period.
The Terrified Turtles are still - terrified. Lol. They crash into the water as soon as they see me, though the other day, one of them sat there staring at me for quite a while before he dived into the water.
There is a pond meeting (I think, gotta recheck) on Saturday. The meetings are neither interesting nor boring,I just go there for the free plants and if anyone brings some fish. I could use a serious dose of motivation in the digging department - though - I can't really do anything right now as the tire on the wheelbarrow is flat - again and this time I am not going to fix it. I will see if I can find a new tire, if not, I will have to get another wheelbarrow. I think cheap wheelbarrows aren't much more expensive, the point being, than a new tire. Ooops, I just remembered that I can probably stick a $5 inner tube in it and it will work fine. Well, I might just do that instead.
It's not as if I'm flowing with money here.
Wow. I haven't seen pirate news in a while. Way cool - U.S. marines board a ship and take control back from the pirates, subduing them without firing a single shot! Way to go, U.S. Marines!!!
Well, I was going to go into Obama, the Obamacare debacle, and the fact that now they are finally saying that this healthcare bill is NOT going to reduce costs as Obama (lied) declared, it is going to cause expenses to rise. Well no duhhhh. I mean, come on. When the government gets involved with ANYTHING, expect costs to triple. I'm still holding out hope Obamacare can be brought down, I'm not holding my breath but I still have some hope for it.
As for today, work day almost here, FINALLY something to do. Though, yesterday morning, I was up in far North Phoenix in the middle of the desert with a semi. When I turned down the "street" where they wanted me to deliver the stuff, I hesitated. It wasn't a street, more like a very narrow driveway winding around to ...... no idea. When I did turn in and got back in there, I was pretty much SOL'ed. It was going to be a LOT of back around a lot of turns. There was hardly room to unload the truck.
Well, when it finally was finished being unloaded, the non-english-speaking Hispanic worker of whom I had to use my now-dulled Spanish skills to understand what he wanted said he was going to have them build me a road, just give them a couple of minutes. ????
Sure enough, a loader and his backhoe went to work turning a huge mountain of dirt into a road that went way up and came back down again. The soil, however, was not compacted and I hesitated again about driving the rig over that stuff, but the alternative was about 1,000 feet of backing, so I went for it. Nice ride, got over it, to the end where they had rocks down to clean your tires - and the truck got stuck in the rocks. I had to sit there for half an hour digging out rocks.
But I did get it out : ) A nice old lady who saw my plight came out with a shovel. The house? Well in "good" times probably a million dollar home : )
G'day.
ben
Hi Ben ! Well I hope you can get a responsible and a nice tenant. One that pays their rent on time !!
I find your blog interesting, and heehee, about that toilet paper issue ?! If the person has dirreaha, a whole roll of TP can be used up! Tell them to buy some Immodium !
Good luck with everything ~
Life is never easy...Having people behind on the rent makes things uncomfortable.
I say you shuold do a monthly notice on the tenant moving out. 30 days notice gives you time to plan.
You should be able to find a decent used computer for not much more than three hundred bucks. Then keep the kids off it!
Hiya Sunny, good to see ya! The TP consuming tenant - well, he has some habits. One of them is to sit in the bathroom with wads and wads of toilet paper and blast his nose so loud, you can hear it all over the house. He fills up the trash can with it. This TP use is a daily event.
Bobby: Well, I don't know how it is where you live, but here you can give a 30 day notice to move out - with no reason. If a person is behind on their rent, then it's a 5-day notice. She is caught up to $80 behind. The problem is whether she is doing the drugs or not.
Fin: Wish I had $300 to spend on a computer, I do not. If/when I do get another computer, kids can use this one (until it's totally dead, I guess) and I will have exclusive use of the new one.
ben
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