Thursday, April 14, 2016

Patrick's Diary - 4/12/2016

Let me get this straight, I caught up my diary for Monday at 3:00am on Tuesday and I am wrapping up for Tuesday at 2:47 in the morning on Thursday now. 

It's not like on Monday, I stayed in bed a bit late on Tuesday morning, so arrived at work much later than usual. As a natural result, I arrived at home close to 7:00pm. On the way home, the rain was very harsh for a period of time but I loved it as I had expressed. The rain might lead to heavy congestion, which also drove the toll to increase to 10 bucks. I haven't taken the toll lane for several months because it's too expensive and I have tried to manage to avoid the rush hours. 
Checking the new monthly charge for my subscription to Xfinity, I was shocked it to reach 303 bucks. Though I do enjoy its full services, it costs so much. I will keep it for several months and try to squeeze more benefits from it, which means I will rely on it dominantly for my entertainments toward the end of this year. If I don't feel it worth so much money, I will call them to get a better deal. To me, 200 bucks a month to covering TV, Internet and Landline may be more reasonable. Another big expense is monthly fee for our cell phone family plan of 1000 minutes, which costs 230 bucks a month. My son and I only use 100 minutes a month at the most. I may have it cut to 130 bucks. Before doing it, I need to evaluate if the data plan is necessary for us or not. If eventually I decide to have both cut, it will save me 2,400 bucks a year. 

I would like to clarify that my blog is totally my personal property. When I talk about saving cost, it is totally my personal goal. Anyone coming to my blog shouldn't try to relate it to others. As I shared, I like writing, so updating this blog for my records is my hobby. I never thought about to impersonate anyone because who else has the unique experience as I have had? For example, I represented one government unofficially at the age of 22 to negotiate with a 3rd ranked official of another government. You may laugh at me why you are still so mediocre today. I am not materialistic in my heart, so do things totally by passions unless realities don't allow me to do. I have been living in my own world all my life. 

Gail from Reflection Optical called me at work to verify the order I placed with them for my son's contact lenses. Because our vision insurance provider was changed to Davis Vision on 1/1/2016, I thought I might have to switch to Costco. However, I drove to their store on Monday after work to check if I still could do it through them or I had to get a printed prescription for my son to bring to Costco, Jessica told me she had already successfully processed my claim for the order I placed last time, so I might already have credits with them because I paid for the last order out of my pocket 3 months ago. I prefer staying with them, it's not because of better deals but long term relationship. I have ordered eyecare products from this store since 2003. 
After dinner, I noticed Mariners playing Rangers. I don't know what's going on, they seemed pretty unsync when the catcher stepped the foot onto pitcher's lower leg. There is a long way to go for this season again. Though I must save the money on entertainment, I will go to Mariners' game once or twice during the summer.
Switching to FSI, I watched the replay of CR7's hat-trick to save Real Madrid in the quarter final of UEFA Championship Cup. I am not sure if I caught Manchester City getting over PSG to advance through a highlight on TV screen correctly or not. I had hoped PSG to shine in this season.
It's decision time, do I keep wrapping up my diary for Wednesday or should I go back to bed to sleep another 2 hours? 

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