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computer weirdness: the saga continues; apartments
Today my computer did the "no output, HD LED steady on" thing before even making it to POST. I think this pretty much rules out hard drive problems or Windows corruption and narrows it to the power supply or motherboard (BIOS possibly?). I am going to try attacking the power supply first since that's rather easier and certainly much cheaper to replace. :-/
In other news, I was checking out apartment rents in the area in the paper today and working out a cost-scenario for what it would be like to move out and live in my own place. It's not as dire as I've always projected it to be, but it rather does require either no savings (or a very trivial amount), or cutting my discretionary spending by huge amounts (as in, if I go to gathers, I get to spend no other money on anything ever). I have no idea if I would manage to balance that out in a satisfactory fashion, but really the more worrying problem is that I just don't know what is going on with my emigration, and therefore definitely would not want to get tied up in a one-year lease. I doubt if I would even want to do six months. And month-to-month is not common around here, and you generally don't like the surrounding area of the properties it is available on. And then there's the hassle of moving. Is privacy worth all that to me? I don't know. Really what I need is a renter's magazine so I can see places, because the classified ads (which I was using just to get a general sample) never have addresses in them.
In other news, I was checking out apartment rents in the area in the paper today and working out a cost-scenario for what it would be like to move out and live in my own place. It's not as dire as I've always projected it to be, but it rather does require either no savings (or a very trivial amount), or cutting my discretionary spending by huge amounts (as in, if I go to gathers, I get to spend no other money on anything ever). I have no idea if I would manage to balance that out in a satisfactory fashion, but really the more worrying problem is that I just don't know what is going on with my emigration, and therefore definitely would not want to get tied up in a one-year lease. I doubt if I would even want to do six months. And month-to-month is not common around here, and you generally don't like the surrounding area of the properties it is available on. And then there's the hassle of moving. Is privacy worth all that to me? I don't know. Really what I need is a renter's magazine so I can see places, because the classified ads (which I was using just to get a general sample) never have addresses in them.
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Also, under california law, the expiration of a lease leaves the default state of month to month. At time of lease expiry, the monthly rate is the same as it was when the lease expired. The landlord is, however, free to ask whateverdafuk he wants at that point...
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Yes and no. In one sense I have to "land" before my medicals expire, else I have to get them done again. That happens in May and I am despairing that I will have the visa before then. You can "land" and then go back to your homeplace and actually do the move later; many people do this. There is a residency requirement to keep PR status (X days per year). But even aside from all of this, once I get that visa I want to go as quickly as possible, and definitely don't want to be stuck here waiting out a lease.