Weekly Banality Update 7-13-2014

a very technology unfriendly week.

-I had to replace my watch (40000 won)
-my fitbit died after 2 months (time and effort in shipping it to the fitbit place here in korea)
-my mouse on the laptop died and...(10000 won)
-I washed my digital camera in the laundry...(camera was used, cost me 60000 won, who knows what the next one will cost if I have to replace it)

yep...i  washed my digital camera in the laundry...did i mention i'm an adult...

nice...real nice...

so far, the high point of my weekend has been washing my digital camera in with the laundry...here hoping the rice trick dries the sucker out...we'll see in a week

sad thing is i'm not really that mad about it since (a) it's my own damn fault and (b) it gives me an excuse to shop for a new one if it is dead...

Losing your home is as heartbreaking as it gets...

My mom finally gave up last year and stopped paying the mortgage in order to short sale here home. That means sell the home for less than the value of the mortgage and all proceeds go to the mortgage company(s)

In the beginning, a single company held both mortgages. but when we began the process they sold one and we had to restart the whole process again with company 2. A complete dick move...

but we are now finally at the packing stage...we have to be gone in a hair over two weeks from now...I don't think my stress level has been higher in my life...

I'll go more into it later but I'm just so tired...

I think have a problem with Craigslist...

I have become shopping addicted to Craigslist...

The general nature of being and ESL teacher in South Korea is you're in for a year or two, then you go home.

This means people with a decent bit of disposable income buy a bunch of stuff. Then when they move, have to then sell that stuff they don't take back with them or chuck it...

Here's my present list of stuff bought (a won is about $0.85) :

• electric water kettle 5000 won
• 2 ps3 games 25000 won (Trivial Pursuit and Uncharted, seller asked for 20000 for both but I offered and extra 5000 if he'd meet me closer to Suwon)
• toaster 10000 won and a router 15000 won
• Wacom graphics tablet 30000 won 

The list of things I asked about and didn't get is even bigger

• video game stuff
• big ass shoes
• medication (you can't get over the counter drugs here, and my nearest pharmacy closes at like 7pm, also no asprin) I'm also very glad I didn't get this...I would of been too paranoid to use any of it...
• all in one printers

Cragslist has an Iphone app which I find myself using as much as Facebook or Twitter, if not more...

To friends and the stuff they leave behind...Craigslist - Seoul