{"id":2588,"date":"2010-08-21T22:21:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T21:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2010-08-22T23:00:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T22:00:58","slug":"paying-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/21\/paying-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something prosaic for a change. ^_^ It is the time of the month for paying bills. Actually I have paid some already, but now the big ones.<\/p>\n<p>Last month I had more bills than income. That is rather disconcerting. I mean, I did not even have any left-over bills from the moving anymore, there were just so many bills showing up at the same time. Luckily bills don&#8217;t generally take me by surprise, although there are a couple that I don&#8217;t remember exactly when to expect. \u00c2\u00a0Anyway, the month before had a massive influx of money, which I was not idiotic enough to spend just because it was there, so there was no worry. But it is not a situation I like to experience.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve finally gotten rid of the recurring bills for the landline (which I did not bring with me when I moved) and the wireless broadband for the laptop (I now use the wireless broadband in the mobile phone when needed rather than having two subscriptions).<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, I am not in a pinch. I can continue to buy the occasional book. (The one that came from Amazon this week is &#8220;The Soul After Death&#8221; by Fr. Seraphim Rose. More on that later, I suppose, if I get to it before the book&#8217;s contents are needed.) \u00c2\u00a0I just can&#8217;t continue to buy new computers several times a year. \u00c2\u00a0Luckily I have enough for a while. ^_^<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something prosaic for a change. ^_^ It is the time of the month for paying bills. Actually I have paid some already, but now the big ones. Last month I had more bills than income. That is rather disconcerting. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/21\/paying-bills\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}