Halloween horror!

[fbhjr]

So, $700 more in car repair.
Pisser.
But, now with us both working, we need both cars.
The good news is that we’ve got the money. We’ve been very frugal this year with me out of work, so there is actually some money set aside for these things.

Of course I am a bit surprised at the end of the month to see that I made less this month then I would have on unemployment.


What I used to make is added as a taunting reminder. Of course, that assumes that I would have been approved for extended benefits as my main ones ran out. But, I probably would have.

Of course, the reason it looks so grim is the place I’m working now runs their financials Thursday to Thursday, and I turned my first time sheet in on a Friday. So, I missed the first week’s cycle. Now that I’m clued in, I turned in this week’s on Thursday, so next week should get a check for 9 work days. That will mean I should catch up well in November.


Of course two work weeks with one 3 days (trip to Mobile and Thanksgiving) remind me that I am no longer one of those people who gets paid for vacation or holidays. But, I do make more an hour then I used to, so by the end of the year I should do well in catching up to the old level. Even with a week off at Christmas.


That doesn’t mean I like the fact that replacing breaks is expensive. But, it does mean that we can afford to do it and if things keep going well will be doing well soon.

EDIT: OK, the key is too small to see. The blue line was my old job that paid every other week. The red line is what unemployment was giving me. The green line is what I'm making as a contractor and project making with my days off.

Comments

[saeble.livejournal.com]

man this is frustrating. brake jobs are rarely difficult, parts are reasonably cheap. the only thing I can't do with hand tools is a disc machine if that's needed but... the disc can be removed and taken to the brake shop, or to someone with a simple lathe to clean off the faces.

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Yeah, but we live in an apartment with a shared parking lot on a hill.
Not a good place for doing work on a car. I'd even worry about changing a tire on the hill, much less getting to the breaks.