Archive for August 22nd, 2008
I Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Written by John Erianne on August 22, 2008 – 7:40 pm -Haiku
Bills on the table
The summer fan blows hot air
My empty wallet
It’s funny. The other day this dude asked me, “when’re you going to start publishing Devil Blossoms again?” I couldn’t really give him a straight answer. Even if I wanted to publish another issue, I can’t afford to do it right now. He was asking me about Devil Blossoms and I was worried about paying the rest of my bills this months!
I did manage to pay my web hosting bill today and I’m please about that. I didn’t think I’d be able to, but I came up with the money in the eleventh hour. Kind of made my day. Then I got a bill for my postal box rental. The fee went up $2.00. Here I thought I’d paid all my bills for the month and was home free — at least until after Labor Day. I’d completely forgotten that the box rental is always due in August.
I’ve been so concerned about my money problems lately, I even went to one of those financial service sites to see if I could get debt help. I’ve got long term plans for myself and Asterius Press and being forced into bankruptcy won’t help me achieve those goals. Anyway, on the site, they make you take this quiz to assess your “financial IQ”. The quiz asks you all kinds of questions about your disposable income and how you save and invest. According to my score, I am a financial retard. That doesn’t surprise me. All the money I’ve got coming in goes right back out to pay off my debts. I no longer have any savings and I no longer have any investments — not even a 401k!
So, publishing Devil Blossoms or developing any other project that requires a serious infusion of cash is just not on the table right now.
