A Place of Safety-Derry/New World For Old/Home Not Home

A Place of Safety-Derry/New World For Old/Home Not Home
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Pulled here and there...

Got a lot going on, now. I'm handling a pickup of archives in the UK, which is no big deal except what I thought was happening is not completely correct. And the timing is a bit tighter. But it'll work out. No books involved, just paperwork.

Also did diagrams for another shipment going into containers, to see how many we'd need. And another job got quoted, though I don't think the gentleman will like the price. But it is what it is.

On top of this, I'm taking a class to present to the bankruptcy court to show I've learned to live within my means. I was put off by its claim that if you put $100 into a stock group you'd bet a 10.5% return, which it used consistently as if it's a given fact. Did you know that if you put $100 a week into that stock group for 30 years, you'd have a million dollars! If you included compound interest.

Funny, but i always thought those things had all kinds of fees in them to wipe out your accrued interest. And who the hell can afford to make that much in savings, these days?

The only time I invested in stocks was when I had a 401K at Heritage, and that was the only way they would contribute to my retirement fund. When the store downsized I closed it and paid the penalty, and lived off that and unemployment for 15 months as I tried to get work in film. Or sell a script. Something.

Didn't work. I did get some storyboarding jobs but that was it. I also made a little extra cash doing book packing, which led into working with Caladex. So it helped...

I then spent the evening getting Dirc and Irin out of that underground building, in BDO, and intensifying their connection with each other. This is the first chapter with no sexual encounter, at all. I need to go through it, again, and freshen it up a little. But overall I've just been doing a single real rewrite on each chapter before posting.

I'm living dangerously.

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