I have started getting myself together and making out covering letters, resumes and postcards with my return address and envelopes. After I staple the resume, covering letter and postcard together, and putting a stamp on the envelope, I have about $.55 in each one. If I can get one-hundred out in the next ten days, I will have spent $55.00 total on them. It's far cheaper to mail resumes to try to look for work than to drive around to put in applications. Most businesses aren't taking any applications anyway, and this way they have to take them, whether they have 10,-000 of them on file or not.
I went to Cilco today, and all I got was a runaround. They wanted me to sign an agreement that I would pay $97.00 a month for four months, in addition to my regular monthly bill. If at any time I can't make the double payments, my gas and electric will be disconnected. I tried to explain to them the the HEAP agency would pay on my bill by the end of the month, and that I wouldn't know until HEAP mailed me a letter stating how much they would pay, what I would end up owing. I told them that I would sign the agreement, if it stated in the 'comments or remarks' section, that after HEAP paid a share of the bill, I would be able to renegotiate the payments. I was informed that nothing could be put under the 'comments or remarks' section by me or anyone else. Why was a 'comments or remarks' section on the agreement, if not to be filled in? I didn't sign the agreement! Fortunately, it is still below thirty-two degrees, although Cilco can shut my gas and electric service off at any time it gets above thirty-two degrees for twenty-four hours.
First the TV networks take the best late night news show ever off the air, and now they have reduced the only other late night news show from one hour to one-half hour.
