I’ve learned that descriptive titles draw people to blog postings. Actually, I’ve learned that cryptic titles do the same, so it’s a collision of paradigms. Anyway, there are people who will ignore this posting, and there are those who just won’t be able to resist. And that’s that.

I’m returning from my unintended two-week hiatus with the happy news that I’m once again back in fair Vienna, and that I’ve just missed my one and only chance of seeing my bank account display actual credit. The translation-job company people transferred my final payment five days ago. I had expected them to transfer at the end of the month, so I didn’t check my bank account. I did today, and even though the numbers are at the wrong side of zero, I was happy to see that they actually had been on the correct side for about a day.

I had missed that day, and today I’m once again the proud owner of nothing, or rather, minus nothing. Which leads me to that one fateful question: If I was out of debt for a day, but I didn’t see it, was I really?