Ho hum, another day of self-distracting insipidity masking a truly gargantuan talent in what can only be described as a truly epic act of total mediocrity.
I mean, it’s one thing for a perfectly average person to waste their life in the dulldrums of depression… but I’m fuckin’ amazing.
Not that saying that helps any.
But some day it might.
I won’t be this numb forever.
On the financial front, I have made a date to go to the bank with Julian tomorrow at 10 am. While there, I will withdraw most of the money now sitting there as lovely, blessed, easy to deal with cash.
Then, if I have the leg mojo to spare, I will ask if I can reset my PIN while I am there.
I only pray that you can still do that in person in your local branch.
And that it doesn’t somehow still require I have a smartphone.
I want to get a smartphone. Really I do, Or better yet, a nice big tablet that can also send and receive texts.
I can use VoIP for the “phone” part. I’ve done it before. It’s awkward AF, but it works.
Ya have to treat it like a speakerphone.
Once I have the cash, I will ask Julian to drive us to my usual Sav-On at Ironwood and buy me that PayPower card I wanted but provided the wrong PIN for.
I thought about waiting till my GST cheque arrives so that I could cash it while I was at the bank, but that won’t be for like five days minimum and fuck that noise.
I will make a separate trip for it. Or figure out some other way to deposit it. Or something along those lines.
Hopefully I will get said card tomorrow and at least be able to live life normally for a while. I will still have to figure out how to get Joe his rent for this month, but at least I will be able to order my groceries online and such.
One silver lining to this very annoying dark cloud is that because I have been unable to access most of my money in my usual fashion, I haven’t spent a dime of it this month. My entire monthly cheque is still there, untouched, and there’s only two weeks till the next one, so I am quite a bit ahead.
I will probably use that extra cash on that tablet I spoke of. The fact that I want something big will inflate the price, methinks.
But I want to be able to type on this thing and I got big fat fingers and that means I need a big fat tablet.
Other than that, the specs don’t matter much as I do not plan on doing much gaming on it. Those mobile games can be crazy addictive and I would rather keep dealing with only one form of video game addiction, thank you.
So something big, slow, and old is fine by me.
Yes, “just like me”.
Trust me, the irony was not lost on me.
More after the break.
An uphill charge
My body does not want me to be awake right now.
Once more, I got SUPER sleepy at around 8 pm, which is exactly when I should have been doing my blogging and eating.
And normally, I would be happy to be sleepy like this because it’s the good kind of sleepy. Soft, relaxing, soothing, and leading to a nice solid nap.
But this is not the time for that. Stupid time.
So right now I have to go get some food together to have my “supper” here at 10:06 pm. I should have done that the moment I got up, but I had to go pee instead and that took too big a chunk of my leg mojo for me to pile a trip to the kitchen on top of that so I had to sit and recharge for a bit first.
And if I am sitting here, I might as well blog.
But enough of that. Here I go, wish me luck.
And I am back.
Mission accomplished. Now I can start accumulating leg mojo for the all important trip to the bank tomorrow.
Hopefully they will give me my money back if I show up in person with my bank card and ID and all that good stuff.
But the way things are going, I would not be in the least bit surprised to find that for some bizarre, out of left field reason, they now require people to have a smartphone to even get into the bank, let alone get at their money.
We the phoneless are rapidly become a persecuted minority.
I’m working on it.
Turns out you can TOTALLY get a smartphone at 7-11 for only $30/month!
Such wow! Affordable yes! Here money, take it!
Oh…. and $109.99 up front. For the actual cellphone.
Aw, so much boo hiss boo! Stupid plan. STUPID plan!
So I will go back to the tablet with text idea for now. And keep an eye out for like the cheapest smartphone that will work.
I would buy used, but…. I would prefer something I am going to touch a lot and even hold up to my ear to be like…. fresh.
Ya know what I mean?
But like I said above, I am not looking for top of the line performance or a huge amount of storage or any of that.
It just has to have basic web access over WiFi and SMS send and receive capabilities and I would be a happy man.
I’m not looking to be a technonaut. I just want to meet the minimum standards of modern society so I can sign up for things and get texts.
I am tired of being the modern equivalent of that old guy in my town who stubbornly refused to get a telephone in his house.
Went to the neighbor’s house when he had to make a call. Relied on said neighbor to come get him when someone called for him.
Over and over, relatives offered to pay for the phone themselves. But he turned them down. Said he refused to have some “clanging contraption” in his home that could go off at any minute of the day or night demanding his attention.
We all thought that guy was pretty hilarious.
Well I am starting to feel the same way. Anachronistic.
And I am looking for a cheap way to fix that.
And I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.