  Woke up this morning and slowly made my way towards consciousness. Decided it would be best to get on with things, so didn't spend a lot of time slacking off.
Started chores, headed to the store for food, and came back. As I was poking around in the yard, I fell into a murderous rampage. My front lawn is covered with ant hills trying to make something of themselves. I had a few bottles of poison, so I went around kicking hills and dumping poison and water on them. I bet I killed at least a thousand outright, and there were abandoned eggs everywhere. I felt good about it.
Later I tried to catch something good on TV while having lunch. Could not be done. I'm sick of paying for this crap, so I moved all my online registration stuff to web email addresses. I had wanted to use GMail, but never got an invite, and it's still beta, so I went with Yahoo. Hotmail is garbage. Months after the features war, Hotmail still only offers 2Mb of storage, and all the spam you can eat. GMail has a gig, and yahoo offers 100Mb. I'm ready to cut my cable now, and mooch off the roommate's DSL line.
It's not easy giving it up though. I've had cable since my first computer in 1998. Sigh. It's one of the many sacrifices I'm going to have to make in order to save money though. I had a chat with my financial advisor (takes pipe out of mouth to gesticulate for a moment), and we decided it would be in my best interest to move one of my RRSP's from TransAmerica, which is doing nothing with their customers (I earned maybe $30 last quarter on it), into another RRSP from Maritime, which is earning 28%. I'll take a little penalty for moving it, but will make much more back on it at the new company. Tonight I had a chat with my mom, and explained my desire to buy my own place. She listened, which I was grateful for.
She said she was intending to help me buy a place, since I had helped her buy her house a year ago (I have perfect credit, I'm just poor). So that's nice to know too. I'd really really like to be able to put down at least 20% on a new house though, so I may have to suck it up and get a second job.
I'm going to have a chat with the boss too, and see if maybe my efforts at work are worth a raise. And I'm putting matters of the heart on the back burner. I'm not happy with my life at the moment, and that's not a great frame of mind to meet people in. Plus, for a long time I've been thinking that I could find someone and we could succeed together. But I did that once, and it turned into a couple roommates living together, rather than a relationship. I want to do it all on my own, and maybe someday if I still feel like I want someone around, I'll go see if anything out there is worth my time.
Back to work tomorrow. I can't remember what I was working on, on Friday, with all my plans bouncing around in my head. The rain outside is soothing, and I'm looking forward to falling asleep to it. zzz 
