It’s about 10:30 Sunday night and I just got home from a nice Indian dinner and some coffee with Betsy in middle Georgia. I’d planned to make it down to Macon in time to walk around a cemetery and take some pictures, but after wasting much of the day watching a movie and then spending an hour or so cleaning out my pigsty of a car, it was nearly dark by the time I got down there – so I blew it off and went straight past it to Warner Robins.
The car drove well, and I didn’t hear the brakes squealing too much, which is a good thing. It’s become obvious that I need to have them worked on, but I just can’t afford it until March, when I get my bonus. Hopefully, that first check in March is going to be a monster and help me get back on track after an extremely expensive couple of months. It’ll be nice to start taking huge, sucking chest-wound bites out of my debt. I’ve found myself fantasizing recently over when the old debt ball is really going to start rolling – when I’ve paid off any one particular debt and can start applying double payments to another one, and then triple payments to another one, and yada yada yada. The goal I set for myself a year ago had me debt free in March of 2013, and – while that stupid car repair bill last year set me back a bit – I can still see a light at the end of the tunnel.
As I said yesterday, I took a drive around north Georgia yesterday afternoon, mainly to get some shooting in. Along the way, I found a campground near Lake Lanier that I didn’t know existed. It’s a very pretty place. Unfortunately, it appears that the park, which was or is a state park, is pretty much run by the Lake Lanier Island Association. What this means is that it’s horridly overpriced. For only $36/night, I can set up a tent there.
I’m used to paying….um….NOTHING for primitive camping. Still, maybe I’ll get a couple of friends to go with me. I suppose $10 is okay for the chance to get out in the middle of nowhere in a really gorgeous location.
The more I write tonight, the more I realize that I don’t have much to say, so I’m going to just throw in a couple of pictures and end this blathering. Tomorrow, I think I’ll just go off on something different and see what happens.
TWD