Good news dilemmas

I find myself in something of a dilemma. I've gotten some good financial news, but the thing is, a lot of the people I chat to regularly are in the shit that way themselves, and I always feel like I'm rubbing their noses in it or something, especially when their reactions are to say how badly they're doing. However, certain people would tell me it's not my responsibility how other people react to my news, so I'll just out and say it. The backpay for our payrise finally came through, and I have officially paid off my credit card as of this afternoon. With quite a bit to spare, which means my remaining debt will also be going soon. Probably next pay day. First time I've been debt-free since I started flying over to Canada every year. *wry*

I also got an extension on the credit card - well, an upgrade to Gold Card, actually. $7000 limit and free travel insurance when I buy overseas flights on it. Which will come in handy given it takes a few months to get all the social security/medicare stuff organised in Canada.

So yeah. Financially solvent. Makes all the scrimping worth it.

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In other news... they're filming a documentary here at the Coroner's Court next week, which means I'll possibly be on TV at some point. *grins* Better hope I have decent hair days for those.

Four days off starting tomorrow, which is good. I'm exhausted. We've been frantically busy, even today, and there's been messy cases galore. And I'm losing my edge a tad - I nearly started crying myself whilst dealing with the family of a car crash victim today - 24 year old motorcyclist travelling at approximately 200km/h who killed not only himself but the driver of the car he hit. His dad and his girlfriend came in to ID him and they were just shattered. *sighs*

Just not a good week work-wise generally. *answers the pager yet again* Definitely looking forward to time off. I hope I can just drag my butt out of bed tomorrow to go climbing with Phil in Altona. Which is very far away. :P Miss my old gym, I do. Stupid fire.

Not so techno-nongy

I fixed the problem I was having with my email by adding the right server, so now I can send as well as receive. All by myself, even. :) And I downloaded the latest version of Safari, which took surprisingly little time even with the dial up, so I'll be able to change my Gmail settings and actually use the damn thing. For the Persephone stuff, I think. I like the idea of keeping my RPGs separate so my brain doesn't melt. ;) Yet to actually instal that, since that'll require me being offline and I was too busy catching up on email. One account dealt with, hopefully the other sometime this 'weekend'. However, Safari is nice and shiny and works so much better, although it's requiring a certain amount of adaptability. Must remember to try and import my bookmarks from Netscape, too...

*snickers* I also managed to find a file at work that no-one else could on the scary work drives, so yeah, having a good technological day too, even if it doesn't seem like much. ;)

Sleep now, I think. Dead.