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Could be fun. Could be good. Could be your last chance to see her perform live.
Mad_Jack
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Thing is, that show's on the 17th of June, and will cost at least $100 (if I can still get tickets when I actually have the cash for it), which is just one week after Bryan Adams and Joan Jett are playing at the other local casino arena on the 11th for $50...
Since I'm still paying off bills from when I was unemployed, so far I've been ending up with like $27 in my bank account at the end of every week after trying to catch up with the bills as fast as I can.
If I work some OT in the next week, I can swing the BA/JJ show no problem if there are still tickets available by then, but the Nancy Wilson show is going to be tough, even if there are still available tickets, since that $100 is $100 that's not going towards catching up with the bills or paying back relatives for money borrowed...
It sucks being poor.
EDIT: It looks like I might be able to afford both shows - I need to pay my insurance, internet and car payment for the month with the check I get tomorrow, but my electricity can wait until the next check, which might just leave me with enough for both tickets.
Since I'm still paying off bills from when I was unemployed, so far I've been ending up with like $27 in my bank account at the end of every week after trying to catch up with the bills as fast as I can.
If I work some OT in the next week, I can swing the BA/JJ show no problem if there are still tickets available by then, but the Nancy Wilson show is going to be tough, even if there are still available tickets, since that $100 is $100 that's not going towards catching up with the bills or paying back relatives for money borrowed...
It sucks being poor.
EDIT: It looks like I might be able to afford both shows - I need to pay my insurance, internet and car payment for the month with the check I get tomorrow, but my electricity can wait until the next check, which might just leave me with enough for both tickets.
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Which show are you nixing?Nope. Not happening...
Even the cheap show ended up being around $85 after ticket fees and such...
I don't need to see the show that bad...
Mad_Jack
Legend
Both of them, actually - if the fees for each ticket are going to be almost half the price of the tickets themselves, it's just not worth it for me....
Although I'd like to see Bryan Adams/Joan Jett, neither of them are serious favorites that I absolutely need to see, and since it's just going to be Nancy Wilson without Anne, I'm not willing to pay that much for it (It was already stretching my financial sensibilities to be paying $100 for any show, but with an extra $30 or $40 worth of fees on top of that?)...
Mad_Jack
Legend
Jack has been an industrious little hiveling this weekend. Got the shopping and laundry done, will have all the construction on my shadowbox project done in the next day (just leaving the clean-up sanding and staining), and will have hung up a curtain rod in my room to hold the blackout curtains I'll be sewing tomorrow...
Hit a snag on the shadowbox earlier - the shelves are only a bit more than two inches apart, and the two corner clamps that I have are larger than that so I can't use them on the very last shelf... So I took some scraps of wood from the project, cut them down to the right size, and glued them together at right angles to make something I can just use regular clamps on to hold the last shelf in place while the glue is drying. I reinforced them by gluing a second square-cut piece into the inside of the angle, tapped a few small nails into them to hold them together, and beveled all the edges that are going to be near the glue so they won't have contact. Got two more to make after I finish the current one, then I'll have the whole thing built and can start cleaning it up before I stain it. Should have the shadowbox done completely by the end of the upcoming week.
Now I'm going to bed, because I need to sleep at some point this weekend.
Hit a snag on the shadowbox earlier - the shelves are only a bit more than two inches apart, and the two corner clamps that I have are larger than that so I can't use them on the very last shelf... So I took some scraps of wood from the project, cut them down to the right size, and glued them together at right angles to make something I can just use regular clamps on to hold the last shelf in place while the glue is drying. I reinforced them by gluing a second square-cut piece into the inside of the angle, tapped a few small nails into them to hold them together, and beveled all the edges that are going to be near the glue so they won't have contact. Got two more to make after I finish the current one, then I'll have the whole thing built and can start cleaning it up before I stain it. Should have the shadowbox done completely by the end of the upcoming week.
Now I'm going to bed, because I need to sleep at some point this weekend.
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Mad_Jack
Legend
For the first time in my entire life, I finally bought an RPG book online in order to save money on it. This feels vaguely like some vague sort of betrayal of my principles (because I didn't give the money to my FLGS)...
But I definitely didn't want the books quite enough to pay full price for them.
But I definitely didn't want the books quite enough to pay full price for them.
I still buy my gaming products primarily in person. My main exceptions are things that are ONLY available online.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
I purchase more PDFs than any other format of gaming material. My games are exclusively online now via Roll20, so it's helpful having maps and text already in electronic format for ease of use. Also, lower prices and instant availability.
But on the rare occasion when I do purchase hardcopy gaming material, it's usually POD copies of out-of-print books and modules, or very used copies of originals from my local used bookstore or my local gaming store. Over the last decade, I've collected every BECM rules set, and 95% of all of the BECM modules and accessories in this manner. (I have all of the PDFs already.)
Non-D&D purchases are almost always PDFs, and almost always Kickstarters.
But on the rare occasion when I do purchase hardcopy gaming material, it's usually POD copies of out-of-print books and modules, or very used copies of originals from my local used bookstore or my local gaming store. Over the last decade, I've collected every BECM rules set, and 95% of all of the BECM modules and accessories in this manner. (I have all of the PDFs already.)
Non-D&D purchases are almost always PDFs, and almost always Kickstarters.
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