More on the Segway and how it is affecting my life:
My son said last night, "Dad, are we going on another Segway and bike ride today? That was one of the FUNNEST THINGS we have ever done !!"
That coming from a materialistic little boy who last Christmas was not very excited at all about the $800 or so in giftage that his mom and I bought him.
Funny, but remember when they said "the best things in life are free" and you laughed about it? It's semi-true in some cases. The Segway itself was definitely NOT FREE, but some of the FUN it is giving us afterward is 'somewhat' free. So that's maybe a wash.
Regardless, the Segway so far has been almost a completely positive experience, and I would recommend it whole-heartedly to anyone who might think they have a good use for it. For short trips near your home, why use a 3000 pound car to carry your 150 pound body? By the way: The Segway gets about 450 miles to the gallon, converting gas cost to the electricity cost for charging it. Sorta nice, eh?
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
So I made it to work with the broken handlebar. Right forearm muscle was almost cramping due to holding the bezel in place, but I made it.
After getting settled into work, I took some large 14" cable ties and a hose clamp over to the Segway and secured the bezel to the handlebar, making it pretty tight. It seems to be very solid, at least as solid as a broken Segway handlebar CAN be made to be.
I contacted the dealer with my sob story and he said the replacement handlebar is $380. OUCH !! He also said he would sell me a "handlebar guard" at his cost, $145 plus tax. So the total damage for my little crash will be $567.00 after tax. Expensive little mistake/accident/incident, huh? Yeah, duh.
After getting settled into work, I took some large 14" cable ties and a hose clamp over to the Segway and secured the bezel to the handlebar, making it pretty tight. It seems to be very solid, at least as solid as a broken Segway handlebar CAN be made to be.
I contacted the dealer with my sob story and he said the replacement handlebar is $380. OUCH !! He also said he would sell me a "handlebar guard" at his cost, $145 plus tax. So the total damage for my little crash will be $567.00 after tax. Expensive little mistake/accident/incident, huh? Yeah, duh.
So there I was, still a couple of miles from work, with a broken Segway handlebar, Segway covered in mud, the tires with about an inch of mud caked between them and the fenders, and 40 degrees outside. Segway in an unknown state, possibly unrideable.
Quite a pickle indeed.
Here's where my training as a Marine and a Dad came into play. I calmed myself and realized that the electronics inside the broken handlebar APPEARED to be intact. I realized that the front bezel was intact and was one SOLID piece that fit across the handlebar. With a little imagination, I put the handlebar back together at it's jagged edge and when I held the bezel on front, it LOOKED like it would be stable enough to hold things together if I could keep it that way while in motion.
Got my Segway keys out and tried to start the Segway. Nothing happened. DEAD? I tried again, being more careful to make the key contact all the connectors in the keypad. IT STARTED !! I had my first semi-positive sigh of relief since the crash. By holding the middle of the handlebar with my right hand around the bezel, pulling it toward the handlebar, I could keep the handlebar in place and ride the Segway !!
I started again.
Quite a pickle indeed.
Here's where my training as a Marine and a Dad came into play. I calmed myself and realized that the electronics inside the broken handlebar APPEARED to be intact. I realized that the front bezel was intact and was one SOLID piece that fit across the handlebar. With a little imagination, I put the handlebar back together at it's jagged edge and when I held the bezel on front, it LOOKED like it would be stable enough to hold things together if I could keep it that way while in motion.
Got my Segway keys out and tried to start the Segway. Nothing happened. DEAD? I tried again, being more careful to make the key contact all the connectors in the keypad. IT STARTED !! I had my first semi-positive sigh of relief since the crash. By holding the middle of the handlebar with my right hand around the bezel, pulling it toward the handlebar, I could keep the handlebar in place and ride the Segway !!
I started again.
Segway Blog continued
OK, here is the UNCOOL part:
On my first commute, I was in an area with no sidewalk and no real bike lane, so I was up on some rough gravel beside the road, just cruising along. We had just had some rains the weekend before (this was Monday 3-13-2006) and the ground under the gravel was a little muddy. No problem, because the gravel was giving the Segway enough traction to operate normally. Or so I thought.
I approached this area where the gravel thinned out and I did not really notice it until the Segway started to slip and by then it was TOO late. I tried to lean back and slow the speed, but the tires slipped and OFF I FLEW. I actually had slowed down to about 5 to 8 mph at the time, so I merely took a step left and off the Segway platform, while the Segway itself crashed to the ground HANDLEBAR first into the mud.
When I looked over at the Segway after I had recovered myself, I saw the plastic handlebar bezel FLY off and land about 10 feet in front of the Segway. First indication of bad news. When I looked back at the Segway itself, it was doing the "flashing beeping emergency shutdown" routine and I noticed a detail with HORROR: The handlebar had BROKEN almost directly in the middle. I almost crapped my pants. I had just bought this thing three days before, and I already broke a major part. I was incredulous, disbelieving, surprised, and SHOCKED.
OK, here is the UNCOOL part:
On my first commute, I was in an area with no sidewalk and no real bike lane, so I was up on some rough gravel beside the road, just cruising along. We had just had some rains the weekend before (this was Monday 3-13-2006) and the ground under the gravel was a little muddy. No problem, because the gravel was giving the Segway enough traction to operate normally. Or so I thought.
I approached this area where the gravel thinned out and I did not really notice it until the Segway started to slip and by then it was TOO late. I tried to lean back and slow the speed, but the tires slipped and OFF I FLEW. I actually had slowed down to about 5 to 8 mph at the time, so I merely took a step left and off the Segway platform, while the Segway itself crashed to the ground HANDLEBAR first into the mud.
When I looked over at the Segway after I had recovered myself, I saw the plastic handlebar bezel FLY off and land about 10 feet in front of the Segway. First indication of bad news. When I looked back at the Segway itself, it was doing the "flashing beeping emergency shutdown" routine and I noticed a detail with HORROR: The handlebar had BROKEN almost directly in the middle. I almost crapped my pants. I had just bought this thing three days before, and I already broke a major part. I was incredulous, disbelieving, surprised, and SHOCKED.
OK Ladies and Gents: I bought myself a
Segway HT i-180 Human Transporter
It's really, REALLY cool. ( Expensive and probably not worth it if you are MERELY judging it on the finances involved. But how can you put a price on COOLNESS? )
I'm going to use it for "partial commuting" from my kids' school to my work. Their school is 3.8 miles from my work, so the plan is to leave my car parked there at their school every day and take the Segway from there to work and then back in the afternoons.
This will only work for about 5 months out of the year when the weather here in Phoenix is not smoking hot and too hot to ride a Segway in the afternoons.
Another way I'm going to use it is to go on "bike rides" with my kids. They are 7 and 9 yrs old, and they love to ride their bikes. Up to now, I only really could let them ride in the cul-de-sac outside our garage door and maybe a little over on the sidewalks by our minuscule park. But now, we are SET FREE because I can go on the Segway while they are riding and we can go wherever we want to go.
The Segway has given me more quality time with my kids and more "outside fun" rather than always watching Cartoon Network or playing Nintendo games. How cool is that?
Segway HT i-180 Human Transporter
It's really, REALLY cool. ( Expensive and probably not worth it if you are MERELY judging it on the finances involved. But how can you put a price on COOLNESS? )
I'm going to use it for "partial commuting" from my kids' school to my work. Their school is 3.8 miles from my work, so the plan is to leave my car parked there at their school every day and take the Segway from there to work and then back in the afternoons.
This will only work for about 5 months out of the year when the weather here in Phoenix is not smoking hot and too hot to ride a Segway in the afternoons.
Another way I'm going to use it is to go on "bike rides" with my kids. They are 7 and 9 yrs old, and they love to ride their bikes. Up to now, I only really could let them ride in the cul-de-sac outside our garage door and maybe a little over on the sidewalks by our minuscule park. But now, we are SET FREE because I can go on the Segway while they are riding and we can go wherever we want to go.
The Segway has given me more quality time with my kids and more "outside fun" rather than always watching Cartoon Network or playing Nintendo games. How cool is that?
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Purchased a used 2004 Honda Civic Hybrid on July 9th 2004, picked it up July 10th with 4823 miles on it. Miles on car were 4823 when I got the keys. Lifetime MPG was 34.4 on the Trip B meter. Here is a synopsis of my first six plus tanks, as I annotated it each day along the way:
General consensus on Edmund;s Town Hall is that the A/C costs about 1-4 MPG. First tank 38.43 (car computer read 37.8)
Second tank read as high as 47.1 in the first 50 miles when I had driven mostly highway miles......dropped to 44.6 after 124 miles with normal commuting....down to 43.5 after 7 days in the tank......Second tank ended up at 40.66 (car computer read 43.1) - short end of stick on that one !!.....
Past midway through the third tank and computer reads 44.2 .....so far, same tank, 449 miles, 44.6. Has been much cooler last few days, have been able to run w/o A/C a lot, thus the 44.6 number.....Shooting for a 500 mile tank !!! Next day, 475 miles, still 44.6, low fuel light came on then went off...will definitely get 500 for this tank !! Ended up with 42.98 for 506.5 miles calculated. Third tank was 45.0 on computer...
Fourth tank read as high as 87.8 (not a typo) for the first 2.6 miles, driven East on Indian School from Sam's Club to 44th street. Read 56.3 after 17 miles. LOOOKKIINNGG GGGGGOOOOOOOODDDDDDDD !!! Reads 54.1 after 23 miles....Reads 51.0 after 98.1 miles.....dropped to 50.3 and then I increased it to 51.0 again after 140 miles.....dropped to 50.7 again after a trip to Mesa Peeds and Holdeman and back to TFMI - going to try tonite to get it back up to 51.0.........193 miles, sitting at 50.3, actuall dropped to 49.9 a couple of times, so it's FIGHTING me to go down !!! After trip to Payson (started 49.2) we came back at 48.8. not bad after 4000 rpm climbing in third gear....back down to 48.4 by Tuesday that week at 498 miles on tank and 4-5 bars left on fuel gauge. Today, 9-1-2004, we are at 48.0 and 519.7 miles, two bars left on gauge, but no low fuel warning yet. My guess is 47.6 by tomorrow and warning light will be on.....NOPE - it went UP to 48.4 again because I was able to avoid A/C usage Wednesday afternoon. Low fuel warning light came on ar 538 miles and 48.4 on the FCD. I'm going to Sam's in Gilbert tomorrow night - going to PUSH it this time !! Ended up 48.4 (48.56 on calc) and 587.5 for this tank.
Fifth tank is sitting at 53.3 after about 345 miles after trip to Cottonwood/Prescott/Wickenburg. Down to 52.6 after 390 miles. A/C usage this week is going to bring it down, because we are in a High Pressure heat wave phase right now...Still on 52.6 after 405 miles.......holding at 52.9 (barely) with 420 miles....53.3 with 528 miles....Still 53.3 at 538 miles....holding at 53.3 after 545 miles....STUCK MYSELF in a jam between broadway and baseline on priest and had to turn A/C on for a few seconds, and the battery ran all the way down, so we dropped to 52.9 at 560 miles, with low fuel light coming on at 559.1..........going for 600 BAYBEE !! Also going to try and get that back up to 53.3 GGGGRRRRRR !!!!!! BACK UP to 53.3 after some good driving, at 575 miles..... BOO-YEA !!! Holding at 53.3 at 600.2 - MY FIRST 600 MILE TANK BINGO DADDIO !! Bars went back up to two bars and low fuel light went out all the way up to 604.7. This tanked ended up 619.2 and 49.71 - BOO HISS !!!
Sixth tank is looking BAD for some reason? 48.0 but struggling - have not used A/C at all. This is strange..... Have milked it up to 50.3 after 60 miles.....looking better.... 51.0 after 76 miles......GOING UP !!.......holding at 51.4 after 94 miles, BARELY-has fluctuated down to 51.0 and up to 51.8, but holding at 51.4.......got it up to 51.8, but a struggle keeping it there.....it has dropped down to 51.4 with only a LITTLE BIT of acceleration usage....hoping to keep it at 51.8 but we'll see.....without the kids this weekend I should be able to get it higher. And on the way to get them Sunday morning, with any luck I can hit the lights good at 37 mph down University and get it up 0.8 just on that trip alone !!! Took the kiddos car seats to Holdeman Friday 9-24 and jumped it from 51.8 to 52.2........we'll see how long it stays !!!! BIG NEWS: I moved the mpg for this tank up to 55.6 by a University Drive drive to Tracy's and back. Caught a lot of lights, maintained 37-42 mph, and it went from 52.2 to 55.6 and is still sitting at 55.6 at 190 miles after my Monday morning commute......BOO YEAH !! Gonna get my first 650 mile tank and my first 50+ MPG tank?????? Holding at 55.6 after Tuesday morn commute at 219 miles.......holding at 55.6 after my Wed morn commute....not moving up or down.....no change after Thursday morning commute, around 250 miles now and 55.6 is the reading. I have started turning the car completely OFF when I have a long coast, hoping to help MPG when I can.....so far it has not gone DOWN, so I do think it is helping....going for my first 650+ mile tank this time...would only have to average 50 to use 13 gallons....If I'm REALLY getting 53, I could go 689.....DROPPED to 55.2 after AGAIN getting stuck in traffic on 48th street b/n Broadway and Baseline....still 55.2 after my Friday morning commute at 265 miles now........going to Rosa's in Mesa today, so I'll bet I can increase the MPG on that trip - maybe up to 57? 57 is the goal !!! Still going, 340 miles and still at 55.6 for now...not much gain from the Rosa's trip, for some reason.....maybe too many miles on the tank now.....LIFETIME on Trip B meter is up to 37.8 now !!! BOO HISS Update: Down to 55.2 for some reason - have NO IDEA why. UPDATE 10-5-2004: ran over a "stop strip" dropped by a local pickup and got two sidewall punctures on passenger side. Trying to get dealer to locate replacements... GGGRRRRR!!!!! EEFFIN Dealer service guys - I had a solid 55.2 and when I got it back from service, it was 54.8 and staying there.....going to try to get it going up again by the end of the week......I now have two new 185/65/14 tires on the back, one size smaller than the front....interesting.....still STUCK at 54.8 after 402 miles - I upped all 4 tires to 40 PSI last night, hoping to help....we'll see !!!.............FCD is TRYING HARD to go down to 54.5 - has done so twice but I got it back up to 54.8. Sitting around 430 miles now.....OK, I milked it up to 55.2 briefly but it is back down to 54.8 after about 460 miles.....Milked it back up to 55.2 after a SOLID drive to Holdeman to give Tracio the car seats...Boo-YA !! OK, all weekend it hovered around 55.2 ro 55.6 and is PRECARIOUSLY sitting at 55.6 right now after my Monday Oct 11th morning commute....I'm betting it's back to 55.2 by the time I get home today....Well, I was half right - it is indeed 55.2, but not until this morning (Tuesday 10-12) did it drop to 55.2 on the commute to work, about 545 miles...OK I milked it back to 55.6 with a trip to Compass on Thomas and to Sams' Club on 20th and Indian School....still at 55.6 after my morning commute on Wednesday the 13th and sitting at 594 miles and THREE FUEL BARS on the fuel gauge. BARELY holding at 55.6 after dropping to 55.2 Wed night after getting caught in traffic going East on Thomas to Hayden to go to Fish N Chips....Fuel warning light came on this morning at 631 miles with one bar left....sitting at 634 miles and 55.6 right now...Going for 700 miles !!! Holding at 55.6 BARELY again at 650.1 miles....Going to give in and fillup tonite at Sams' before getting 700 miles, darnit !! Made it to 683.9 miles, 12.69 gallons. So if you assume I got 54 MPG (which it calced to) then at 631 miles I got 53 miles after the light came on. So at a 13.2 gallon tank, I had one and a half gallons left when the light came on.
Seventh Tank: Filled up Friday 10-15-2004. First 3.1 miles read 93.1, going 30mph North on Kyrene towards Tempe - took a Pic !! After the first Monday commute on 10-18, we are at 57.1 and 38 miles. BOO HISS - after the Tues 10-19 commute, I am down to 56.3. Seems like the coldish weather (<70 degrees this AM) combined with the use of headlights for part of the commute dropped me quickly. We'll see how well it holds up over this coldish snap over the next few days....I calculated that if I get three more 54 MPG tanks including this one I will be at 48.58, making me a HYPERMILER !!! WOO-HOO !!! We'll see....
General consensus on Edmund;s Town Hall is that the A/C costs about 1-4 MPG. First tank 38.43 (car computer read 37.8)
Second tank read as high as 47.1 in the first 50 miles when I had driven mostly highway miles......dropped to 44.6 after 124 miles with normal commuting....down to 43.5 after 7 days in the tank......Second tank ended up at 40.66 (car computer read 43.1) - short end of stick on that one !!.....
Past midway through the third tank and computer reads 44.2 .....so far, same tank, 449 miles, 44.6. Has been much cooler last few days, have been able to run w/o A/C a lot, thus the 44.6 number.....Shooting for a 500 mile tank !!! Next day, 475 miles, still 44.6, low fuel light came on then went off...will definitely get 500 for this tank !! Ended up with 42.98 for 506.5 miles calculated. Third tank was 45.0 on computer...
Fourth tank read as high as 87.8 (not a typo) for the first 2.6 miles, driven East on Indian School from Sam's Club to 44th street. Read 56.3 after 17 miles. LOOOKKIINNGG GGGGGOOOOOOOODDDDDDDD !!! Reads 54.1 after 23 miles....Reads 51.0 after 98.1 miles.....dropped to 50.3 and then I increased it to 51.0 again after 140 miles.....dropped to 50.7 again after a trip to Mesa Peeds and Holdeman and back to TFMI - going to try tonite to get it back up to 51.0.........193 miles, sitting at 50.3, actuall dropped to 49.9 a couple of times, so it's FIGHTING me to go down !!! After trip to Payson (started 49.2) we came back at 48.8. not bad after 4000 rpm climbing in third gear....back down to 48.4 by Tuesday that week at 498 miles on tank and 4-5 bars left on fuel gauge. Today, 9-1-2004, we are at 48.0 and 519.7 miles, two bars left on gauge, but no low fuel warning yet. My guess is 47.6 by tomorrow and warning light will be on.....NOPE - it went UP to 48.4 again because I was able to avoid A/C usage Wednesday afternoon. Low fuel warning light came on ar 538 miles and 48.4 on the FCD. I'm going to Sam's in Gilbert tomorrow night - going to PUSH it this time !! Ended up 48.4 (48.56 on calc) and 587.5 for this tank.
Fifth tank is sitting at 53.3 after about 345 miles after trip to Cottonwood/Prescott/Wickenburg. Down to 52.6 after 390 miles. A/C usage this week is going to bring it down, because we are in a High Pressure heat wave phase right now...Still on 52.6 after 405 miles.......holding at 52.9 (barely) with 420 miles....53.3 with 528 miles....Still 53.3 at 538 miles....holding at 53.3 after 545 miles....STUCK MYSELF in a jam between broadway and baseline on priest and had to turn A/C on for a few seconds, and the battery ran all the way down, so we dropped to 52.9 at 560 miles, with low fuel light coming on at 559.1..........going for 600 BAYBEE !! Also going to try and get that back up to 53.3 GGGGRRRRRR !!!!!! BACK UP to 53.3 after some good driving, at 575 miles..... BOO-YEA !!! Holding at 53.3 at 600.2 - MY FIRST 600 MILE TANK BINGO DADDIO !! Bars went back up to two bars and low fuel light went out all the way up to 604.7. This tanked ended up 619.2 and 49.71 - BOO HISS !!!
Sixth tank is looking BAD for some reason? 48.0 but struggling - have not used A/C at all. This is strange..... Have milked it up to 50.3 after 60 miles.....looking better.... 51.0 after 76 miles......GOING UP !!.......holding at 51.4 after 94 miles, BARELY-has fluctuated down to 51.0 and up to 51.8, but holding at 51.4.......got it up to 51.8, but a struggle keeping it there.....it has dropped down to 51.4 with only a LITTLE BIT of acceleration usage....hoping to keep it at 51.8 but we'll see.....without the kids this weekend I should be able to get it higher. And on the way to get them Sunday morning, with any luck I can hit the lights good at 37 mph down University and get it up 0.8 just on that trip alone !!! Took the kiddos car seats to Holdeman Friday 9-24 and jumped it from 51.8 to 52.2........we'll see how long it stays !!!! BIG NEWS: I moved the mpg for this tank up to 55.6 by a University Drive drive to Tracy's and back. Caught a lot of lights, maintained 37-42 mph, and it went from 52.2 to 55.6 and is still sitting at 55.6 at 190 miles after my Monday morning commute......BOO YEAH !! Gonna get my first 650 mile tank and my first 50+ MPG tank?????? Holding at 55.6 after Tuesday morn commute at 219 miles.......holding at 55.6 after my Wed morn commute....not moving up or down.....no change after Thursday morning commute, around 250 miles now and 55.6 is the reading. I have started turning the car completely OFF when I have a long coast, hoping to help MPG when I can.....so far it has not gone DOWN, so I do think it is helping....going for my first 650+ mile tank this time...would only have to average 50 to use 13 gallons....If I'm REALLY getting 53, I could go 689.....DROPPED to 55.2 after AGAIN getting stuck in traffic on 48th street b/n Broadway and Baseline....still 55.2 after my Friday morning commute at 265 miles now........going to Rosa's in Mesa today, so I'll bet I can increase the MPG on that trip - maybe up to 57? 57 is the goal !!! Still going, 340 miles and still at 55.6 for now...not much gain from the Rosa's trip, for some reason.....maybe too many miles on the tank now.....LIFETIME on Trip B meter is up to 37.8 now !!! BOO HISS Update: Down to 55.2 for some reason - have NO IDEA why. UPDATE 10-5-2004: ran over a "stop strip" dropped by a local pickup and got two sidewall punctures on passenger side. Trying to get dealer to locate replacements... GGGRRRRR!!!!! EEFFIN Dealer service guys - I had a solid 55.2 and when I got it back from service, it was 54.8 and staying there.....going to try to get it going up again by the end of the week......I now have two new 185/65/14 tires on the back, one size smaller than the front....interesting.....still STUCK at 54.8 after 402 miles - I upped all 4 tires to 40 PSI last night, hoping to help....we'll see !!!.............FCD is TRYING HARD to go down to 54.5 - has done so twice but I got it back up to 54.8. Sitting around 430 miles now.....OK, I milked it up to 55.2 briefly but it is back down to 54.8 after about 460 miles.....Milked it back up to 55.2 after a SOLID drive to Holdeman to give Tracio the car seats...Boo-YA !! OK, all weekend it hovered around 55.2 ro 55.6 and is PRECARIOUSLY sitting at 55.6 right now after my Monday Oct 11th morning commute....I'm betting it's back to 55.2 by the time I get home today....Well, I was half right - it is indeed 55.2, but not until this morning (Tuesday 10-12) did it drop to 55.2 on the commute to work, about 545 miles...OK I milked it back to 55.6 with a trip to Compass on Thomas and to Sams' Club on 20th and Indian School....still at 55.6 after my morning commute on Wednesday the 13th and sitting at 594 miles and THREE FUEL BARS on the fuel gauge. BARELY holding at 55.6 after dropping to 55.2 Wed night after getting caught in traffic going East on Thomas to Hayden to go to Fish N Chips....Fuel warning light came on this morning at 631 miles with one bar left....sitting at 634 miles and 55.6 right now...Going for 700 miles !!! Holding at 55.6 BARELY again at 650.1 miles....Going to give in and fillup tonite at Sams' before getting 700 miles, darnit !! Made it to 683.9 miles, 12.69 gallons. So if you assume I got 54 MPG (which it calced to) then at 631 miles I got 53 miles after the light came on. So at a 13.2 gallon tank, I had one and a half gallons left when the light came on.
Seventh Tank: Filled up Friday 10-15-2004. First 3.1 miles read 93.1, going 30mph North on Kyrene towards Tempe - took a Pic !! After the first Monday commute on 10-18, we are at 57.1 and 38 miles. BOO HISS - after the Tues 10-19 commute, I am down to 56.3. Seems like the coldish weather (<70 degrees this AM) combined with the use of headlights for part of the commute dropped me quickly. We'll see how well it holds up over this coldish snap over the next few days....I calculated that if I get three more 54 MPG tanks including this one I will be at 48.58, making me a HYPERMILER !!! WOO-HOO !!! We'll see....
Friday, June 25, 2004
Reunion was REALLY FUN. A Good one. Some are good, some are average, some are crappy - this one was fun. The kids ran around blasting one another with water pistols and water balloons. The grownups got to munch on some of my famous home-made salsa and eat Julio's chips, and we had Cuervo Gold frozen Maggies. Good darn deal !! We played Cranium, and flew kites (even at nite) and got to swim once at the Motel pool. Not too many flies, not too many skee-tos, not too awfully hot to stand it.
Thursday, June 10, 2004
Friday, June 04, 2004
Well, I still need things done to the house and I need more dinero to do those things, so I followed up on a mailer and got a loan at CitiFinancial at 27% interest....WHEW that's high !! I can pay it early and not pay that interest, but for now, it was my only option. I'm going to use some of the money to pay down on two other loans, and use $1000 to get a roll shutter for my back patio door. Get a backyard sprinkler system installed too. And get a quote on a whole-house water softening system. Nuff fer now......
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
MY MY HOW LIFE CHANGES !! New life, new home.
So last time I blogged, I was married with five kids, two of them BLOOD kiddos, all of my family living 935 miles away from me and my jobs. I was working two jobs to support a lying, cheating wife who was taking full advantage of the "freedoms" of living 935 miles from the husband she despised.
Now, that marriage is history, my two kids are here with me, I just bought a new house and am filling it with new stuff. I live 5.3 miles from my job (thus a streets-only commute - no FREEWAYS !!) and my kids are enjoying the freedom too.
More later - stay tuned......
So last time I blogged, I was married with five kids, two of them BLOOD kiddos, all of my family living 935 miles away from me and my jobs. I was working two jobs to support a lying, cheating wife who was taking full advantage of the "freedoms" of living 935 miles from the husband she despised.
Now, that marriage is history, my two kids are here with me, I just bought a new house and am filling it with new stuff. I live 5.3 miles from my job (thus a streets-only commute - no FREEWAYS !!) and my kids are enjoying the freedom too.
More later - stay tuned......
Tuesday, April 01, 2003
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