This is my first post of the new year. After a week of not having internet service in my new apartment, I’m up and running again. It turns out that I was given an older cable modem that must have been on it’s last leg when it was installed. The tech guy came out and gave me a new modem, and everything works now. I had tried a post to this blog when my internet was down, figuring it’s hosted on my local machine, so it didn’t really need the internet, but it doesn’t work right without internet access. The last post was written on the 28th, but it didn’t get posted until earlier today.
On top of getting my internet working, I also finally got my phone hooked up. I was working off my cell phone all week, which turned out to be very inconvenient. I only get 120 “Anytime” minutes every month and I’ve used almost all of them. What’s more, my billing cycle begins on the 16th of the month, so I won’t have any minutes until then. I hope to get a new phone before then and switch over to T-Mobile, instead of the AT&T I’ve been using for about 5 years. If I can do it, I would go from 120 to 600 minutes, and from 1000 night/weekend to unlimited, and T-Mobile now includes Friday in weekends.
Sunday and Monday were really bad days for me. I’ve always had trouble with major changes in life, and moving to Granite City was extrememly stressful. Tuesday evening was much easier for me for the most part. I sort of met my next door neighbors, although it was not on good terms. I went to bed shortly after 10:00 and just after I fell asleep, they knocked on my door looking for some Coke. I think it was on a dare to be honest. They must have been having a party because they woke me up several times that night. Hopefully that is not something they do often, or we aren’t going to end up getting along very well.
Today I signed up on eHarmony for the third time. I used it once in 2002 for three months, then after a short time of not being on, I signed up for another month. This time I signed up for a full year because they were having a speacial that I’ve only seen 1 other time, and was unemployed the other time so I couldn’t take advantage of it. I don’t have super high hopes that it will lead to me finding my wife-to-be, but I figured it was worth another go. If nothing comes of it, I won’t be disappointed, but if something does comeof it, all the better.
Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of my last New Year’s Resolution. For New Year’s 1994, I made a resolution to never make another resolution again. I think their stupid to be honest. I think goals are great, and can really do a lot to help a person improve thier life, but New Year’s Resolutions seem a bit quaint and a little arbitrary. Why the first day of the year? If something is bothering you, change it then, you don’t have to wait until a new year starts to do it. How many of them are forgotten about in a few weeks anyway? Real goals have a much better shot at lasting in my opinion. If you make New Years Resolutions, and stick to them, good for you though!