{"id":502,"date":"2007-05-15T18:58:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T18:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=502"},"modified":"2022-02-25T20:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:22:17","slug":"some-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/15\/some-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Numbers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/somenumbers.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-503\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Several changes in my life lately&#8230; I have decided to be in &#8220;consolidation mode&#8221;, including sorting out a few of my bank accounts that are just eating up&nbsp;<em>service charges<\/em>&nbsp;for non-activity, as well as eliminating my&nbsp;<strong>612<\/strong>&nbsp;mobile phone number. When I called in today to tell them I wanted to cancel, they reminded me that I was a&nbsp;<strong><u>14-year-customer<\/u><\/strong>&nbsp;with this this cellular service provider (sob). Well &#8211; I decided to cancel that account since it was burning a $60-hole in my pocket every month with&nbsp;<em>no one calling<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>FROM NOW ON PLEASE CALL ME ON MY 626 PHONE NUMBER<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why the financial consolidation? Trying to make some big decisions in my life, and realized that I needed to &#8220;clean house&#8221; on all the wasteful items in my life in order for things to happen the way I wanted them to&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the next number, a more interesting item.&nbsp;<strong>768<\/strong>&nbsp;is what I found my&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FICO\">FICO&nbsp;<\/a>credit score to be this afternoon. Exactly a year ago when I was looking to see if I can afford to buy a home in L.A. (at that time I was hoping for a 1200 sq. ft. home for around $250k &#8211; how naive), and found out my score to be a pitiful 610&#8230; I guess the past year of paying all my bills on time has paid off \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now if I can only find a 1200 sq. ft. home in L.A. for under $400k \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several changes in my life lately&#8230; I have decided to be in &#8220;consolidation mode&#8221;, including sorting out a few of my bank accounts that are just eating up&nbsp;service charges&nbsp;for non-activity, as well as eliminating my&nbsp;612&nbsp;mobile phone number. When I called in today to tell them I wanted to cancel, they reminded me that I was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/somenumbers.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}