The week has gone by really fast.
I had a cold the entire week, and on Tuesday morning, I lost all access to my home computer (thanks to my former employer who removed anything that belonged to them… which also caused my password to no longer work). Instead of blogging and writing, which I had hoped to do, I wound up setting-up my wife’s new laptop, which needed to be done anyway, so my time was still well-spent.
DirecTV has given me three free months of the Starz Network as a thank-you for all the money I’ve given them over the years, so I have been recording a bunch of movies and putting them on DVDs. Every two hours or so, I turn on the TV to see the end of some movie, stop the recording, and then start another one. I’m not actually watching any of these movies… yet. In addition to that, my family still has a couple of weeks left on our one month all-you-can-view Blockbuster pass. I sort of feel obliged to use that pass daily, since we paid for it, but I think I’ve only seen two Blockbuster movies this week. My days have been filled with lunch dates, driving around doing errands and Costco shopping for our Church’s upcoming youth winter camp – I’ve been out of the house a lot! Towards the end of each day, I have sort of collapsed due to my cold and as a result, most of my evenings have been sort of blah.
My son is getting used to me being home before him. God only knows what he was doing in that span of free time he used to have before I came home in the old days. He probably misses that freedom.
Good news! My friend Bery came by last night and reset my passwords using some Linux password hacker. I can now log on. Life is back to normal… the new normal anyway.
By sometime next week, I’ll have a new laptop. I went on EBay and ordered an identical laptop to the one I had at work. I got it for a fraction of the original price – like an eighth – so I am happy about that. With the laptop, I can function as a consultant, and I can again teach at Church in the manner to which I have become accustomed (almost everything I do requires multimedia). Heck, I can spend my days at Starbuck’s writing the great American novel if I wish!
In the next week or so, I’m going to have to start reducing my expenses so my “burn-rate” won’t be so fast. With any luck, I can find profitable things to do to keep the burn-rate at zero while I discover what I should be doing with the rest of my life.
Day 5 mood: A mixed bag: Trusting that God has a direction for me, but also sort of scared, since my income is coming to a sudden halt starting Monday. My company stock is also moving in the wrong direction right now, and I have a lot of stock options to sell in the next 25 days.