Bad news part 2

Well, it seems the house went to auction May 9 and no-one picked it up, so the bank is stuck with it. Now the bank says if we leave the house clean on or before May 30, they'll pay us. Our other option is to hold out until the bank can process through bankruptcy proceedings and have us kicked out, probably by the end of June.

This really sucks, because we aren't good at cleaning up and moving out of anywhere, so pretty doubtful we could collect the money they're offering.

On top of everything else, I lost my job at the end of April. Pretty good paying job, at that. I'm looking for other work, not sure what will turn up.

I've applied for an electrical apprenticeship training program that is pretty much a sure thing. I applied for the same program last year and was in the top 20 applicants. I couldn't participate because I would have to accept full-time employment as an electrician's apprentice, and would have had to take about a 40% pay cut to do it. Since the full-time job is gone now anyway, no pay cut involved, plus I'll be back up to near my previous full-time pay in about 2 years.

But the list of accepted apprentices doesn't get released until the first week of June, after the bank wants us out of the house, so trying to move into anywhere is an iffy proposition. argh.

:-) fixed Terri's computer!! !

We got new computers almost a year ago when they were on sale cheap. At some point after that, Terri's computer quit recognizing her DVD drive. We went through a big hassle with the supposed tech support folks, and got it fixed, but then the computer stopped recognizing it again. Funny thing, a bootable CD or DVD would still work fine, the problem came after the Windows Vista operating system booted up from the hard drive. After finally trying a registry fixing program (which didn't work) I searched for solutions online and found a fix for the problem in XP which also apparently works for Vista, anyway it's working and Terri's much happier today :) ;) :) :)