fuck adulting

[unicornduke]

I finally got the truck to make the weird noise at the mechanics this morning and it's a bad bearing in my air compressor

so I need a new air compressor which is anywhere from 600 to 1000 dollars

fucking yay

it only has 48k miles on it! that's it! Why me! 

I'll get it fixed probably in April. ugh ugh ugh. 

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[graydon]

Oh, boo.

And a bad bearing isn't even likely to be anything the air system ingested.

[unicornduke]

I know ugh. He showed me what was going on and yeah, the bearing isn't working right so ugh. As much as I wish I could say fuck it and keep going without it, I really do need the defrost at the very least and the air conditioning is nice in the summer when I'm on the highway and trying to listen to podcasts. And also when it gets super hot.

just frustrating because I kinda thought I was on top of stuff for like a month. My taxes aren't too bad (I need to finish those up still) and so I figured I was good. Oh well.

[graydon]

Defrost is definitely not optional!

(Insert childhood memories of a VW Beetle that had hopelessly inadequate defrost and having to keep a short scraper handy to maintain conditions in which the driver could see.)

One of the deeply annoying things about adulting is how important it is to throw about 10% of income in a savings account because of things like this. (And yeah, everyone can't do that. Which is a different problem.) Get to the end of the year and some of it can turn into longer term savings or big purchases or whatever, but the Surprise Party Fairy will show up, and they're mean.

[unicornduke]

I've got an thing set up to move $20 a month over to a savings account but that's all I can spare from my regular income but I've got a bit of money saved up since I had put bonuses and stuff from previous job in there too. And tax returns. One thing I am doing is stashing about half of my "extra" money away. Sidejob money, half goes into my savings and the cash I'm getting from my parents goes in a separate pouch in my wallet or into my emergency cash stash.

It always seems my surprises come before april :|

[graydon]

It may be that the Surprise Party Fairy works on the tax year and has a bunch of quota to meet before year-end, yeah.

Half extra into liquid savings is a sound plan. So is making sure to have cash on hand like that. ("only gas station's POS/ATM are down" remains annoyingly plausible.)

I'm about to find out how my taxes are, which has meant measuring this house. (I can claim the area that's office space, but as a percentage, so I have to know what it is!)