Having Enough

The Simple Dollar blog today has a guest post by the author of 'Your Money or Your Life'. Really good stuff on living, needs, and finances.

At the Make Fair this year there was a start up for a website to do sharing/loaning. I forget the name right now. It is of course San Francisco mostly so far, but I really like the idea. I'll loan you my sewing machine for a day, and that guy will loan me his cherry picker, and... I do wonder how broken/repairs work in those kinds of situations (whereas in  shared housing situations, I'd set up a fund everyone pitches in to).

I also look at this sort of thing as financial decluttering... cutting back to what matters/what fits/what's right now.

go boom

Well it's been some days of basics going boom. Like, yesterday my computer decided to randomly restart over and over, going back in time with restore points. So after much tech support and hardware tests, I wiped the drive and am now in the process of downloading masses of files from mozy. Yea for having mozy.

And before that was the late-breaking news about needing a therapist letter. Got that one in the bag (though the letter won't come for a week or more; timing).

As the capper (I sure hope), my car just massively overheated. All fine, then drive in the driveway, and verily, the sound of water gushing. Open the hood. The sound of water boiling. The temp gauge never got particulary high. Mysterious. See if I can't get it into a shop tomorrow. Know a great cooling system repair shop in San Jose? Hopefully this will stay in the three digits for repair.

Time to do laundry, make a cold supper, make a very cold vodka tonic. Or perhaps margarita... I did make fresh salsa yesterday...

Another day in the neighborhood.