Going hoarse

I am becoming rapidly hoarse from having to raise my voice at customers who don’t listen all day. Like, they are hard of hearing or they have bad phones, or they have a lot of background noise, or they’re just bad listeners, but about one in three customers today (If it was every customer, I’d get my phone checked) requires me to raise my voice and repeat everything I say several times. I’m so glad that I get to go home now. I’ve been up far, far too long.

Luckily, typing this afternoon won’t make me any more hoarse.

Happy New Year!

So, yesterday was the first day of the first week of the first month of Year Zero. Or, to be brief, 1.1.1.0. (Today is 2.1.1.0, for those of you who don’t remember where to DL a PDF version of this year’s calendar.)

Some of you were paying attention; I got three calls yesterday afternoon wishing me a happy new year. Sorry if I wasn’t chatty. I’m still not telling you what the calendar has been counting down to. Still, thanks for paying attention to my ravings.

Obligations and repurcussions

I’ve just realised (actually about 15 minutes ago) that I forgot to go in and pay my rent the other day. I don’t recall if there is supposed to be a fee or a problem or an evicion or whatever for being a couple of days late, but i DO know that they often don’t bother processing the checks until the 7th or 11th of the month anyway (making my checkbook balances look unreliably weird for a week or so at the beginning of every month), so perhaps it will not be an issue. Then again, maybe their lateness is somehow related to waiting until the last check comes in from their renters. Or since the people I gave the check to are a management company, maybe they sign it over to the actual owner and that takes time, or … I don;t know what, but I’m going to their office today, straight after work, to pay rent and whatever fees they instruct me to pay.

Sometimes I hate being absent-minded. I guess I’ve just gotten too used to having everything coming automatically out of my account every month (Gas, Electric, water, cable, phone, and one of my loans all deduct automatically on their due dates. All I have to do is have the money in the account). I’ll try to do better next time. Heck, if I can get this Apple Loan paid off on time, I’ll be able to maybe get a month ahead on my rent. (Unless they raise it when the lease is up in a couple of months.)

I’ll comment on this later when I find out what happens. I called them, but just got VM & left a message apologizing and informing of my plan. Hopefully everything will go smoothly.