Been a bit quiet of late. This is for two reasons:

1) Everyone else is making the points I want to make much more eloquently

and

2) I'm busy trying to recover my business plans from a major setback so that we can actually afford to live this year

So when I've found a cheap supplier of PC components that charges by invoice, or worked out how to make more than a tenner a week out of the stuff I've got ready to sell right now, I'll get back to sticking some interesting articles up here.

I have had some good news, though. I thought I owed someone £500 but it turns out I only owe them £200, so that's good. I now have a working wireless network, thanks to my Dad's experiments with networking his own house. And The Beast is back on the road (not in my name, but it's a better solution than having it rusting away under a SORN notice for three months).

There's so much I want to get done. I'm building a long list of people I want to talk to about my business ideas and jobs and soforth and it's so completely frustrating knowing that I can't deal with anything until Tuesday. I've already had one sleepless night rearranging finances and goalposts and I can see a few more coming up.

I need a steady £150 a week in order to clear all my debts, learn to drive and take us on holiday, but it's ridiculously hard to arrange when you're relying on selling tat on Ebay, looking to build PC base units for under £150, looking for a job in Adult Education and trying to work out how to go about setting yourself up as a freelance I.T. troubleshooter.

If everything would just go right - for example, if I could secure a small business loan of maybe £1500, then every one of my plans would come to fruition in less than a fortnight. Just another rainbow to chase once the Bank Holiday's over and done with.

So in the meantime, I'm putting loads and loads of washing on the line while the weather's nice and I'm just about to sod off up the shops for an hour to look for a new mop and bucket. But I can't get the frustration out of my head. It doesn't help that there's 6000 more people looking for work than there were two weeks ago around here (slight good thing about the Rover kickout is that everyone who's on a new pilot signing-on scheme that means you don't have to visit the godforsaken jobcentre eevry two weeks has been suspended until the jobcentre is a bit less busy, which means I have another month free in which to compile a comprehensive list of the jobs I've ahem "applied for" ).

[Current Mood: Deeply Frustrated]