Stop the snowball. You never really know how long they will last. And you never know what kind of stupid emergency will show up while you’re on furlough. Emergencies seem to know when you’re unemployed……
Year: 2015
My partner works for the government so I thought we were looking at a furlough. It turns out that her specific branch of the DOD was smart with last year’s budget and they have extra funds. She is not being furloughed until those funds run out. She says that will be about 2 weeks.
Just goes to show how being smart with money can help. I am really hoping that this lasts less than 2 weeks so that we are not looking at losing her income. That would really slow down our progress. So, for now, I am wondering whether I should stop paying extra towards the snowball until we know for sure what is going on.…
last night where Jerry picked up the computer to read Merchants of Deception. While he was waiting for me to pull it up for him, he was busy reading a busines book “Ten Powerful Phrases for Positive People” by Rich DeVos- which he then put down to continue reading the ebook.Do you think it would be more beneficial or more destructive if I were to… hide his CDs and books? He has the entire stock of CDs in his car center console and always listens to them on his way to/from work. His books are on a shelf at home and some in his car trunk.We don’t have any money left right now for him to replace his stock (just as we’ve stopped having money to do DITTO, in the process of the crash and burn phase now) So if his books and CDs were to disappear…In your opinion is it more BENEFICIAL because I can finally get him away from the indoctrinating CDs (which he listens to on a daily basis) and his own finances won’t allow him to afford any more…Or would it be more destructive- he may react badly in his anger that I took away his stuff? I’m trying to compare the effects and see if his anger may be worth it to finally see him separated from the influence of the CDs…his mind might regain a little more self-awareness at home and in his spare time he may be spending MORE time investigating the ebook and others than reading his own business literature? The possible bad effects, if I were to do that, would be temporary anger/resentment from Jerry- him reporting the news to his mentors and his mentors talking badly of me.Maybe there’s also a way I could sabotage his books and CDs without being so obvious- what do you think?Is there a way to ruin a CD (maybe with a certain chemical) that renders it unreadable by the CD-player- without showing any physical signs of damage? What happens if a CD has like a single long scratch across the radius- would that prevent the CD from playing properly, will that make it skip? I’m just trying to figure out how to gently remove Jerry from his indoctrination materials without him necessarily blaming me. He tosses his CDs around his car without their covers so a couple of them inadvertantly get damaged and replaced. I’d like a way to take out his new CDs that just came in the mail. Usually if Jerry can’t figure out why a CD isn’t working he doesn’t make a fuss, he turns on the FM radio. So I figured I could gradually get him to limit his CD time.What do you think?…