The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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naw. . .I got caught up in a maelstrom of moving to Portland, and keeping my job and living in the Starcraft while waiting for my apartment to be ready to rent and then moving in and keeping my job and then going though radical training (the computer system we had used for years was completely revamped) and trying to keep my job. I was maybe hoping to unload the Starcraft because although I love it, it is just not practical in town.

I loved the Dylan poetry, Nanr;, I read every line singing it out loud and even used the last verse (which reminded me of my fate filled time as a moderator on this fourm) as my signature, until I could not stand having violated the rules of long sig. lines and changed it. I was just stunned when you posted it, like an old friend calling you up one night and you realize they are just a bit stoned. . .

speaking of stoned old friends, Postie showed up on Skype yesterday. "Hello everyone, don't eat all the muffins!"

and if I time this just right, it will be 10/10/10 at 10:10 PM when I post this. I am certain it has no significance when one realizes that the solar system will be in ruins one day. . .but it is fun to preservate about.



one more minute. . .course, I am using my computer clock to time it, and it could be off but. . .

Merle

Oh darn, the sun came out. I was having a good time resting my back, but now I may need to move rocks again.

color nan annoyed. her health insurance premium (oh, thank god she's got it!) will double next year. that's ok. if she puts the kid back on it, it will quintuple after doubling. now if the kid was under 21 it would only cost an extra $50 a month... somebody's gouging here.... the actual difference between the medical expenses for a kid that's 22 and one that's 23 is how much a month?!?

still cheaper for the kid, though, to go back on mine. she's running about $600 a month in premiums, and then there's the co-pays. she's not earning all that much.

and, in the long run, i ran up one hell of a bill this year, so even if my rates did quintuple for the rest of my life, it's cheaper than if i'd had to have paid cash out-of-pocket for all that high-tech care.

too bad they botched most of it.

still, $omeone is going to be making a killing here.

at least it is not YOU that is doing the dying!

at least it is not YOU that is doing the dying!

thank goodness! they gave me a 2 out of 3 chance of making it, and a 1 out of 3 chance of making it with minimal lasting problems (the first health thing). as far as i can tell, i'm skittering in with that 33% batch.... the second health disaster, well, that's just ongoing. an ongoing. and ongoing.

my gripe of the day. went to target. picked out some things. they were having a big "pay with your card and get 5% discount" promotion so i whupped out my card, which i haven't used in a year and that had a several thousand dollar limit that i'd paid off back in the spring of 2009.

declined.

seems that by not using the card in a year they decided to drop my limit to $150. when i called they could not explain why.

sigh. ok, there are other stores.

very annoying, though, as we shop target weekly and have been giving them a couple of hundred dollars' worth of business every month (we buy groceries there, too). obviously we're not quite important enough to keep as charge customers.

I swear to gawd you have to have a masters degree in finance to deal with some of the 'save XYZ' percent of your purchase price when using a store credit card. I am still trying to figure out how I saved 25% on that days' purchase if I paid $25 dollars to upgrade my card. I went over very carefully with the store clerk, who was semi-patient with me, all the info necessary, and got my percentage off, and then paid my store card off completely with my debit card.

A month and ahalf later I get a 'bill' from the dress shop saying I had a 25$ credit on my paid off store credit card, that they would love me to use the next time I visited their store, however I could also just call them and get it refunded back to my debit card.

arrgh! I haven't any smarts when it comes to stuff like that.

Merle

whose idea of 'paying bills' is usually just throwing money at something until it goes away.

bizarre, isn't it? i mean, initially i just had a target store card, with a limit of a few hundred. that's all i wanted and all i ever really needed. out of the blue about three or four years ago they cancelled that, and sent me a 'visa' target card with like a $5,000 limit. (said they were doing away with the target store cards.) it also had like a 25% interest rate, so i rarely used it. (i prefer to pay cash, and if i have to buy on credit i have a card that has a much lower interest rate.) but i figured, hey, it's good to have for an emergency.

so they send out this big promotional flyer "use your card and get 5% off". since the tax rate is about 10% i figured, eh, at least it'd help with the taxes. but when i go to check out, nooooo. and the person at the bank said that they were not revisiting anyone's credit limits at this time, until "a promotion came out." when i asked when that would be they could only re-read the script. (sigh)

i'm going to call them back tomorrow, on a week-day, and try to talk to someone who's not reading from a script. i was getting ready to try to refinance my place in a couple of months, and losing that much credit dings my credit score a bit (not a huge amount, but every bit counts!) so i'm just generically annoyed. (and my perpetual ass cramp is cramping particularly unpleasantly tonight so i'm li'l miss cranky anyway!)

i visited their website and they seem to have store cards again. which you can't apply for online, you have to do in the store. (sigh) i think i'll apply for one. since i can get just about anything i need there, it makes sense to have a backup. ya never know when ya might need a reserve.

whatever. it's so weird about all that stuff. one company throws money at me with excellent rates, and the bank where i've had my checking account for years won't give me a card because i had a patch of bad credit (since paid off) just under 10 years ago. and target, who we give an awful lot of business to every month, is suddenly too good to talk to me except for some poor lost soul who can only read a script.

just whatever. it makes no sense.

damn, my crankybone hurts tonight!

Yay

The wind and rain is washing the leaves off the trees here. The cool wind feels so good to me. My little dog shivers and hides in the houseguest's lap, and the molting chicken sits by the back sliding door asking to come in.

i noticed our dog likes colder days (noticed that last winter too, she's having fun when there is snow), more than summerdays

My dog is almost hairless, a cross between a Chinese Crested and an Italian Greyhound.

This is the season of yo-yo temperatures and blustery days.....74 degrees F on Sunday and it will down to the 50s and 40s later this week, with a wee little bit of Indian summer here and there.

Well I'll be damned, how'd I get here? And don't say, Your Mom, or I'll hurt you. Surfin, surfin safari, surfin.... surfin safari...... SNARK!! !! (poof)

Postpaleo! Stick around a while, why don't you. We need somebody to sit on the muffins. Can you believe what's been going on with Nan?

our dog has long hair yeah