You may recall that I applied for unemployment benefits since DialAmerica still hasn’t bothered to contact me about when I can start work again. Well, I finally got the paperwork and information packets from Texas Workforce today. A lot of good it did me really, apparently I have been denied benefits. According to one letter, [...]

And there still hasn’t been any word back yet from DialAmerica. I am intensely glad that I went ahead and filed for unemployment benefits because, let’s face, I don’t think they’re calling me back any time soon. I have two small checks coming from the still; one for two days of work and another for [...]

I thought for sure DialAmerica would give me a call today to at least tell me how much longer it is that I might be without work, although really, I was hoping they’d call and say that I started up again today or tomorrow. As you might have guessed, there was no call from them. [...]

In case you can’t tell, the title of this post is meant to be bitingly and bitterly sarcastic. Last week I mentioned that we had a new program to call on so the work was coming in steady once again. I guess I spoke too soon.
Monday was a fairly average day, despite the accident on [...]

Getting to work yesterday proved to be a bit of a chore. First I couldn’t find my house keys then when I finally get out on the road I am stuck behind this rude person who drives slow when I can’t pass than deliberately speeds up when I can pass. To make matters worse, when [...]

Tonight was the first night calling on the new program since Wells Fargo canceled their PCS (Preferred Customer Program) when their methods of spending their bailout money were called into question. The new program we’re calling on is the Travel & Leisure Golf Players Club that is being offered to current American Express cardholders. Personally, [...]

So today was quite the interesting day. My grandfather took me to Las Cruces so I could try to apply for a loan with him cosigning for me. As you might have guessed, things didn’t go as planned. For every good there seemed to be a bad.
Good News
My grandfather was able to make time in [...]

It’s looking like I won’t be seeing Pyro up on any car lifts any time soon. The reason is simple, apparently my credit score is too low to even get a $1,000 loan from my bank. And no, I have no idea what my credit score is because, apparently, they’re not allowed to tell me [...]

That’s the conclusion that I have come to anyway. Friday night on my way home I got caught up in a fender bender - again. To avoid one guy who almost clipped me I pulled into another lane, which wasn’t moving, and couldn’t brake fast enough.

The car was drivable, but I noticed that it [...]

Normally I work the evening shift, as you all well know, which generally runs from 3:30 to 9:30pm depending on whether or not we’re hurting for hours or not. Well, today, or rather Wednesday, I decided to pull a double shift. Since we really need all the hours we can get, they wanted us to [...]