Your Money Update #22

For November, I received $461.31 in Patreon donations.

$85.20 of your Patreon donations went toward Patreon's various fees.

$211.00 of your Patreon donations went to the electric bill which allows me to do what I need to do. It is holding steady due to my bill that has been "levelized" (evened out) over a six month period. My Aunt has gotten to where she likes to keep it around 65F in here (in the damn winter), which is a source of eternal consternation to me. (Thank Mighty Cthulhu for the DeLonghi Radiating Space Heater I received as a donation!)

Next up on the Huge and Possibly Unnecessary Bills List is my combined cable / phone / Internet bill of $202.35, of which $165.11 came out of your Patreon donations and $37.24 came out of your Discord subscription fees. At least half of that is beneficial to my work (1GB Internet is nothing to shake a stick at in rural Kentucky), but my Aunt also wouldn't know what to do without her Kentucky Wildcats basketball games or local news. Spend all day and night laying in bed probably.

Now for the Discord income. I received $288.00 in Discord subscription fees, which represents the "Net," after Discord takes its cut. (This fee is about 10% of the income which is lower than any other freelance gig subscription service. Swap to Discord, folks.)

$92.54 of your Discord subscription fees went for a phone bill that some may disagree with, but I believe is quite reasonable. It has three lines on it for my entire household, unlimited talk and text, and a 3GB wireless hotspot which has been invaluable for maintaining support during network outages. It also finances my Google Pixel 6a which I got earlier this year.

$46.09 of your Discord subscription fees went to the water bill, which has gone up $10 due to a faucet leak that I haven't had the money to have repaired. It's not the tools or the hardware that hits my wallet, it's the labor. Plus the last time I had one of these fucking podunk plumbers around here to work on something, he ripped a hole in my bedroom wall to replace a pipe then nailed a "fake air vent" over it and called it a Job Well Done.

I must admit that with $16.94 of your Discord subscription fees, I treated myself to a Longhorn ribeye while my Uncle was visiting from Cincinatti. However, he tried to get me to re-dedicate my life to Christ under the banner of Evangelicalism, so there was a sour lining to the savory meat.

The remaining $95.19 of your Discord subscription fees went to credit card bills, most of which was expenses for Christmas presents, which I probably overindulged in. I enjoy giving gifts because as it turns out, I'm pretty good at it, which winds up being self-reinforcing.

Don't really feel like going into a lot of personal details this month, but school and personal relationships are going well.

If you stop by my Discord server, you can find updated versions of Licentia QUESTS which has almost every quest mod from the Legacy of the Dragonborn and Hall of Forgotten mods, along with a plethora of variants including those with 3rd person combat, sexy outfits, skimpy armor replacers, and more. There is also a SECRET profile on MEGA I said I'd never do again if you want to dig around for it. Explore and Experiment!

Thanks again for your support and encouragement.

caco