Gimme all your beans

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Fi
on January 19, 2010 4:52 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
We received a nasty surprise in the mail over the weekend: a $509 bill from our ISP, Vodafone, for one month's worth of internet! Yeouch! Hurts! After several painful hours faffing round on their website trying to get an accurate daily usage report for the days in question, we finally pinned down the days that had the biggest contribution to us hurtling in 2GB plus territory (over the agreed plan we signed up for, and when we start paying 50c per Mb) - the 30th and 28th of December.
Unfortunately *bangs forehead* yours truly had deleted the history (I had trouble with my stylesheet refreshing properly earlier that week so I cleared it down) so we can't pinpoint why and who yet until Vodafone send a record of the website hits through ("two to three days" say their techie boffins) but hell, it's not like we were streaming live movies or downloading double album after double album off of iTunes!  Wah! Sucky boo!
Needless to say, the Other Harf's brow was extremely furrowed above his spectacles at the sight of it, especially after having to part out $362 to the Inland Revenue for an underpayment on my tax last year (my employer's fault *points finger*) and for our share in pool chemicals left, right and centre (lordy, will the ph balance in that sucker ever be perfect?).

Fortunately, things may be looking up income-wise: the OH has a meeting with a fellow bean-counter who has her own business and is needing a hand doing peoples' "books" - if she likes the look of him (and the OH can be very presentable, if he puts his mind to it) and agrees to take him on it means he can work for home on flexible hours (fitting in DIY, some of the housework and being Taxi-Dad ferrying Miss 9.4 to and from her after-school activities) so it'd work out very nicely indeed.

So, I'm crossing my fingers for the beans coming our way for a change...

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