The Run Around

This was another busy weekend. Party Friday, party Saturday, bought plane tickets, laundry, take home exam, balancing quicken. I hate my bank. When I started they automatically enrolled me in a stupid program that made penny transfers from checking to savings, then the bank would match the total of those transactions over the year. It only made me like 70 cents and is making the accounts in quicken all messed up. I tried to cancel the "benefit" on the web and there weren't any options for it, so I called the customer service line and there weren't any options on there to cancel it either and there weren't any options to talk to a real live person. I wound up going to a website that tells you how to cheat the customer service lines and get a real human. It was tricky but I finally got in line to talk to a rep. It took 15 minutes on hold. When I finally talked to someone he said that I didn't have a savings account. He said that they closed it because of inactivity. Can they do that? They are still paying me interest, transfering money through the stupid program, sending me statements and I can check the balance online. It even downloaded the transaction information when I set it up in quicken. He told me I should walk into a bank and make sure that they hadn't closed the account or if they have, to reactivate it, because if I don't they will turn it over to the state. He's got to be mistaken. Anyway he canceled me out of the stupid program so I solved one problem and found out about another. Add it to the list. Well, I should probably get back to the take home exam.

A Shout Out to my Biggest Fans

Thank you Mom and Nikki. You guys rock.

Shelly and I used the picture sharing application in Instant Messages and it is pretty cool. I was showing her pictures from dinner Sat. night. I went to a nice italian restaurant in pasadena for a friend's surprise birthday party. Oh man it was kinda funny. We thought we knew where it was ... some carribean place, that we found out doesn't exist any more. Then we kinda sorta ruined the surprise by calling the host of the party... and then the birthday boy. Anyway, it wasn't all our fault.

I want to see pictures of Ohio all covered in snow so e-mail some to my yahoo account okay?

Back after the long break

Okay wow, so, I'm sorry. Let's start over. I'll be posting again. There is no excuse for not posting. There is even less excuse for never sending thank you notes from Christmas. I don't know what happened to me but i am trying to get all of my ducks back in a row. I stopped posting when I couldn't seem to find the password. Anyway that's how it's been lately. I have let too many things go. Next task; taxes.

I hear that Ohio is getting slammed with snow. I have to report that it is a sunny, windy, 64 degrees in Lancaster.

Lester and Eva showed everybody their pictures from Australia last night . It made me itch for travel. I need to buy plane tickets to Ohio for Nikki's wedding and tickets to Washington (for a trip to Idaho) .

I should get back to lining up my ducks and that homework isn't going to do itself.

post edit: Quick Australia fact, they call commiting suicide "topping off"