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[cjsmith]

Wow, this was a bad time to ditch a secure comfortable income, huh?

I'm not frantic, as I know I can weather a short- to medium-term financial storm, but I continue to be impressed with my lifelong knack for pessimal timing.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there are advantages to learning to stick to a budget -- as I'm doing now for the first time in years. I'm definitely living more frugally than I did a year ago. (For one thing, eating out is now more of a chore than eating in!) Really, though, the only significant useful step I could take at this point is to ditch the Bay Area mortgage and property tax. Everything else is chump change by comparison.