Last Friday the Thirteenth (insert doom music) was a little busy.\u00a0 Not as busy as it was supposed to be, but I did get one major thing accomplished:\u00a0 I put some water in my waterbed.\u00a0 It had been getting a bit low, but now it’s perhaps a little overfull.\u00a0 I need to burp it–a short project for tomorrow–a process where I open up the valve at the foot of it, stick a tube on it, and then roll slowly from the head of the bed to the foot.\u00a0 This pushes the air bubbles which slowly form inside the bed to where the aforementioned tube is so my waterbed becomes air-free.\u00a0 Or less air-full, anyway.\u00a0 I did this burping thing right after filling it, but more bubbles are now waiting to be burped out.\u00a0 The tube thing is actually a pump, but the waterbed is so full right now that if I pumped, all I would get was water.<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, my paycheck reduction has occurred.\u00a0 Since my full-time, direct employment with my employer started (as opposed to indirect, through an agency employment), I have had three sets of deductions applied to my paycheck.\u00a0 Two of them started with the paycheck I received today.\u00a0 The first was for insurance, the second for my 401K, and the last for garnishments.\u00a0 For most employers, the last meant only child support, but for this one there is an old auto loan I defaulted on when the vehicle in question died.\u00a0 It’s not much coming out of my paycheck, thanks to the child support thing taking up most (usually all) of the legally allowable garnishments, but it’s there.\u00a0 On the bright side, I am still doing a lot of overtime so the impact of the garnishments is somewhat reduced.<\/p>\n
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