The Day After

Today is the day after I found out that I am going to be jobless in about one month. I will have some part-time work, but I will not have full time work. So, it probably has not fully set it because I am not feeling too horrible about the whole thing, but at the same time soon I will have very little discretionary spending.

One purchase I had almost made was a property in Colfax. If I bought it and got a loan for it, I would be hurting because I would have lost my savings by purchasing the building and property. If I had a job, it wouldn’t be a big issue, because I had some plans on ways to help pay for the loan via self-storage on the property which would, most likely cover the whole cost of the loan. But right now I cannot take that chance and lose everything.

But I think about the time that were are in with the economy. Maybe now is the time to act. Get the property while the prices are low and then get this project going. But I would hate to lose my house and everything else should things go poorly. I still want to do it, but I don’t see how I can get it done. I think I will call the owner of the land and see what his thoughts are.

At the fire department there wasn’t a whole bunch of calls. In fact we ran two calls and they both turned out to be nothing at all.

In the evening Tim and I were talking about some stuff. When I first came to the shift I didn’t know what he thought about me. In fact I sort of thought he did not like me. I thought that he “tolerated” me. But as time went along it seems like we have become people who more than tolerate each other. I told him that for all my shortcomings he seems to have accepted me. He said that he has not heard anyone say anything about me nor that I have shortcomings as a firefighter. He said the only thing that people say is that I can be moody. That is sort of funny, because I try to not be a moody person, but it happens. As I have written about before in the blog, certain things have happened to me over the time at the fire department that has caused me great grief. That has caused me to get into a bad mood. But it was a great talk we had.