H is calling me during the day now, which is nice. He is checking in on me to see how I am doing and when I have time in my day I do the same to him. He is not always as available when I call him; I understand completely he is at work you know. That is something that the OM did for me but I have not clued H in on it at all, kind of funny I think. I would like to try and squeeze a lunch in a couple times a month with H too, he has a half hour and I have a full hour, where he works at we can call in an order to a bar near by and it will be ready and waiting even with our drinks, when we get there. Also I have been sending him some e-mails complaining about a co-worker or two at times, just when I am about to explode on them, I vent to H in the e-mail and feel much much better. I feel this way he does have a clue what I do at work all day long other than 'play' on the computer. I do try to do IT work, when I am there, no formal training, but working on that, so I do 'play' on the computer a lot.
With H selling off about 3/4 of his racing stuff we got a good chuck of change to put on bills that we have. BUT we got some news yesterday that deals with the business that H had for a while. It was a repo company, and H sold the truck to the guy that used to drive for him and now H can not find him. He bought the truck on terms with H, there was a contract signed drawn up by our lawyer so there is legal stuff to back it up. But the thing that is bugging me is the amount that H sold the truck for was to pay off the company credit card that was used to get through a rough winter last year, there were several costly repairs that were done. I was stressing last night and this morning about having yet one more bill to pay out of our pocket rather than getting paid by the truck payments that were coming. Normally this would have been something I would have called the OM to b!tch about. I worked through it and I will talk to H more about it tonight. One of the things that we have going for us to find the guy that bought the truck, he family is still in the area. And we know that his mom was misusing her job position to pull credit reports on the people who were up for repo, to get their new updated addresses. She did it for us unknowingly; we had a company that we paid for them to run an address look up for us. In addition to that we actually tried to get that service through one of the credit reporting companies, but we found that there was too much red tape involved. So H is going to see what his mom has to say before he uses that to get information out of her. And his dad is also around but H has never met this guy, but knows that he lives in a town not that far from ours. But all H wants to do is get the truck back so we can try and sell it on eBay or something like that and get some of the money out of it that we need.
But H has a way of spinning things to the positive side. With us being able to pay off the credit card with the lowest on it and paying down one of the other ones we should still be in OK shape, financially. This is one of the things that we really really really need to get on the same page with, he feels that we are OK living pay check to pay check, but I am not. I want to have that little cushion in the bank just in case some thing does happen to one of our jobs, we live in MI…hello…and he does work in the auto industry. Luckily he does have a skilled trade behind him and another one that is almost complete, tool and die, and electrical. He started at the shop shortly before he had enough hours in to complete his electrical journey mans card. So those hours and everything as far as I know are still good so there will just be some school work and about an other 6 months worth of being an apprentice before he would be ready to take the test for that. My job does not really have a lot of ties to the local economy but you never know what could happen.
