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Just Got to Singapore Last Week
Posted on April 28th, 2019 No commentsThe bosses decided that it was a desperate situation and they sent me here with almost no warning. The day before I got on the plane I was thinking about taking a quick trip to Cabo San Lucas with Emily and her parents to do some fishing. Now I am here and she is pretty mad at me about it. Of course we are always having some sort of drama, so it is not new. For now I am staying at a place called Parc Esta in Singapore, which is a condo that belongs to someone my supervisor went to school with. I think that the two of them have some sort of side deal and I would bet anything that the company is getting handed a padded bill for it. However for me that is not important, the only difference is that there is not room service and no maid service. I can cook and I can pick up after myself, so it is not that I really care.
The big thing I have learned so far is that it is really hard to get around in Singapore. Read the rest of this entry »
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I Saved Money by Installing My Own Cameras
Posted on April 18th, 2019 No commentsI knew that I wanted to get a CCTV IP camera but I had no idea where to purchase it. I had called a number I had seen on a TV commercial, but I quickly hung up after hearing the price just for a very basic security system. I know that it costs money, but the price I was given was outrageous, for the lack of a better word. I have helped my brother install various things at his house with wiring, and I figured it could not be that much different to run cables for this type of system.
I decided to go online and see if I could just buy the equipment outright, knowing I could get help from my brother with installing it if need be. Read the rest of this entry »