{"id":167,"date":"2013-01-16T21:26:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=167"},"modified":"2013-01-16T21:26:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T21:26:46","slug":"rubberdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2013\/01\/16\/rubberdog\/","title":{"rendered":"RubberDog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-168\" alt=\"rubberdog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/rubberdog.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While I was in prison, my wife bought another dog.\u00a0 A Doberman puppy she named Mae.\u00a0 Mae as you can see slouches something awful, seems to have rubber joints that can flex any which way without bothering her.<\/p>\n<p>I really didn&#8217;t want to get a dog, not knowing if I&#8217;d lose the house or not (that&#8217;s still up in the air and a cause of a hell of a lot of stress).\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard enough to find housing as a sex offender, limited to one county, without adding the requirement of being able to have pets.<\/p>\n<p>So now if it comes to that, and we have to give her up, it&#8217;s going to be yet another heartbreak.\u00a0 Between a daughter I can&#8217;t talk to or even know how she is doing and a youngest son that won&#8217;t talk to me, and a mother in the deep stages of Alzheimer&#8217;s, I&#8217;ve had enough of that already.<\/p>\n<p>Before I even went to prison my financial state was going to hell in a hand basket because that&#8217;s where my mental state was.\u00a0 Wasn&#8217;t able to do the things I needed to do like keep current on billing, update servers that needed to be updated, etc.\u00a0 I had a line of credit with Chase which somehow they&#8217;ve construed as a mortgage.\u00a0 To be honest, I didn&#8217;t really understand what I signed with them, they write these 50-page contracts that nobody understands except lawyers that I can&#8217;t afford.<\/p>\n<p>So now I am current on my primary mortgage but not the Chase thing, and they&#8217;ve more than doubled the principal with outrages fees and interest.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;m in this mess where if I could refinance the whole amount, the chase amount and my primary, at modern interest rates, I would not have a problem making the payments, but I can&#8217;t because my credit is shot, and my credit is shot because I can&#8217;t make payments on the Chase and some other cards.<\/p>\n<p>There are times when I wish I would have just died in prison.\u00a0 The business is healthy now, but my personal finance situation is a mess.\u00a0 So I don&#8217;t know what to do.\u00a0 JP Morgan was the downfall of Tesla and it looks like he&#8217;s going to make my life miserable from the grave.<\/p>\n<p>In my absence my wife had made arrangements and payments to Chase, but they reneged and $8,000 she paid them never got credited to our account, we don&#8217;t know where the hell it went.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the moral of the story is read and understand or don&#8217;t sign.\u00a0 And don&#8217;t get mentally ill (like anybody would choose what I went through).<\/p>\n<p>An even bigger moral is stay right with God, because the whole cause of the severe anxiety I had was not being right with God and believing I was going to die and go to hell any moment.\u00a0 Well, at least that is something I don&#8217;t live with anymore.<\/p>\n<p>And although this mess is still far from worked out, I&#8217;ve seen enough things which seemed impossible solved by God&#8217;s grace that I know, if it&#8217;s his will, it&#8217;s possible.\u00a0 What I don&#8217;t know is, if it&#8217;s his will.\u00a0 I know I am still far from spiritual maturity, and maybe a lot more pain is still in the works to get there.\u00a0 And I guess that&#8217;s what I stress out the most about.\u00a0 Really not knowing what I&#8217;m still going to have to be dragged through.\u00a0 But at least I know whatever it is now, I won&#8217;t be dragged through alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was in prison, my wife bought another dog.\u00a0 A Doberman puppy she named Mae.\u00a0 Mae as you can see slouches something awful, seems to have rubber joints that can flex any which way without bothering her. 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