Off Topic With Ashley

So what I thought were mosquito bites are looking more like sandfly bites now. I don’t react to mosquitoes like this, and three days after my fateful trudge through the wetlands I’ve still got painfully itchy red welts all up and down my legs.

I’m pretty good with these sorts of things so I’ve decided to take care of the problem myself. I’ve put myself on a course of ibuprofen and something called methylprednisolone aceponate which sounds like a highly reputable and presumably effective drug, so I hope my skin doesn’t fall off.

I did another surprising thing tonight and took some initiative. That’s a slightly deceiving statement; I took some preliminary initiative with the intention of following through with a profound deed of self-betterment later on; but it’s a start and that’s what counts.

I went back over my details and worked out when my mobile phone contract expired, and that was the start of this month. So basically I’m now going to have to find out a way to transfer my number to a more reasonable service, because so far this month I’ve used one cent on top of my twenty-five dollar plan. That’s a really silly waste of money.

I remember quite well that I knew it was a bad idea at the time. I didn’t really have the need for the contract, but my old phone was dying and I really wanted the new toy. It was the most reasonable value in its class as well, but a year on it’s completely stuffed and my old phone (which was handed down to my father) is still fired up and producing reasonable thrust, even if it is driven by steam.

So now my contract is finally over I have the freedom to change things around a bit, and hopefully reduce my monthly telecom bill by some arbitrary figure that will make me happy.