Patrick Blackstone's Blog

Just a place for me to write about anything important or interesting in my life.

Dept Free Is The Way To Be

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Patrick Blackstone

I just finally paid off the last of my credit card debt that I’ve had since 2001.

In 2001 I got a Discover Card with a limit of $7500, I then apparently proceeded to lose my mind and within 3 months I had gone over my limit on that and my other credit card that I had with a limit of $750. At one point the most I owed was about $9500 and what really made things worse was the fact that this happened in the middle of a rather long period of unemployment.

So with some help from my tax refund I just now paid off the last $1500 that I owed. It’s going to be so nice not to have to worry about that crap any more and have some more money to spend on the things I want.

Site Updates and New Camera

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Patrick Blackstone

Once again I’ve been mucking about with the site design, unfortunately I didn’t bother to check if it looked alright in Internet Explorer 6 so it looked kind of messed up in that browser but it should work fine now. Granted it won’t look or work quite the way I’d like it to but at least it isn’t horribly messed up. (sorry to anyone that may have visited in the last few weeks)

Some older news: I got myself a digital camera near the end of November. This is my first real camera. (unless you want to count my cell phone) It’s a Canon PowerShot SD750 and it’s a pretty sweet little camera. Since this is my first real camera I’ve been taking a lot of pictures and trying to do some artistic shots. I’ve been posting most of them on Flickr so check them out if you want, and feel free to leave comments on them. (as long as you’re not too mean)