Month: March 2020

I think the shredder is going to give up the ghost though.

Poor thing keeps overheating, I may have to resort to using the firepit to get rid of the tons of papers that all have critical information on them. 

Why does every “Special Offer” have to have my name all over it? Why are all these “Special Offers” odd sizes and printed on card stock? A better question is, “Why am I getting all these ‘Special Offers’ in the first place? I didn’t ask to be on any of these lists in the first place.”

Banks could lower their operating costs if they’d stop sending out trivial notices. Here’s an example; One bank sends out a one page notice if you add your credit card to Apple Pay. They send another one page notice if you deactivate your card on Apple Pay, they’ll send another one page notice if you contact them on the phone.

The phone notice is really dumb because whatever changes you made, you made while you were on the phone with them and during the call, you’ve had to verify that you were who you said you were with a series of signs / countersigns and a text message verification code.

I’ve worked in defense department buildings on top secret projects that were less secure.

This particular bank has ticked me off. I’m trying to figure out how to get away from doing business with them altogether. 

That being said, if you’re doing troubleshooting with their card, and Apple Pay, you could conceivably get 5 or 10 individual notices during the course of your troubleshooting.

As an aside, I no longer have their card on Apple Pay.

I’m just working to pay the balance off and then I’m cancelling the card.

OH I KNOW! Cancelling the card will negatively affect my credit rating. You know what? There comes a time when you just don’t give a damn anymore. I’m there!

In truth, I’m looking at all my credit cards and figuring out which ones are worth my time. High interest cards are all on the chop. Companies that have treated me well over the years and who are not difficult to deal with will remain in my wallet.

I guess the lockdown, aside from making me a crazy person is having some positive benefits. 

God help annoying businesses when locked down folks have time to focus on their annoying behavior and time to spend on the phone firing them.

I’ve got a list and I’m working through it. I’m dumping all the parasitic companies that provide no real value.

What’s out of your wallet?

I haven’t been wasting the time but I had a taste of warm weather and sunshine in Florida. 

Then I came back here and it was cool, okay I’m in the mountains I expect it this time of year. I adapted, knowing that it was going to start warming up.

Now winter is back. It snowed last night and I’m more than ready to be outside doing spring/summer things. 

During this lockdown the freeways are empty and it’s one of those times when it would be bliss to get in the car and actually be able to have some fun. Open road, light traffic, and 310 HP, Wheeee!

That’s not to be though. Most of the local places I’d go to are closed.

They even closed Joshua Tree. At the height of the season, I’ve never been within 50 feet of another person there, unless I brought them.

I anticipate that once they end the lockdown people are going to go nuts. There’s going to be mind boggling traffic at all hours of the day and night just because people will be able to come and go as they please. Shopping centers will probably be crowded like Black Friday.

The Twitter feed is loaded with people who are just as bored and restless as I am. They’re entertaining themselves in a variety of interesting ways. Some, more interesting than others and I’m not complaining.

I’m only 4 days into this, what am I going to be like at day 30?

Back to making the place house beautiful…

Hope you’re having a good day.

OH God!

I’m gonna lose my mind.

I really would rather be out wandering around, but there’s little point to going anywhere since most of the places I’d like to go are Closed for the duration I’m pretty sure that this genie is out of the bottle. Fine! I’ll stay at home and go quietly insane from boredom.

You’d think there would be movies I wanted to watch on one of the streaming services. Nope! Anything I’m watching at this point is mostly out of boredom. Remember I’ve been looking for a job for 6 months, so I’ve already been home way more than I’d have liked to be.

I’ve watched most anything that caught my interest after exhausting the job search from 5 to 12. My schedule was usually, get up, have coffee, search for jobs, have lunch, then watch a movie.

I’m movied out. I’ve considered adding to my Itunes collection but a lot of the movies I’d like to add are $20 and that gets really expensive really fast. I’ve noticed that since the Coronavirus hit Apple isn’t discounting movies like they were.  Makes sense, they’ve got a captive audience right? Why discount anything if you’re one of the only suppliers and you know that people will pay top dollar to entertain themselves or their children for a couple of hours.

I do finally know what it takes for me to do shit around the house that I don’t really want to do.  Make me stay home where the distractions are limited and I’m looking hard for a reason not to look at my computer.

I’ve started reconfiguring my home network… Just for the fun of it. Now, that’s freaking sick!

So today I’m shredding old paperwork and statements that have been scanned or that I’ve  downloaded and filed.

Why am I blogging you ask? Because the shredder is overheated and I’m waiting for it to cool down.

I swear I need one of those CIA grade shredders!

On the plus side, the stacks of paperwork to be shredded have diminished by quite a bit. Talk about a fire hazard!

Why do banks insist on sending the most useless bits of paper? Yeah, I know I added your freaking card to apple pay. I had to call you to do it so why are you sending me 3 individual letters stating that I did it on 3 devices?

Really? Are you trying to kill a forest?

Shredder is cooled down again… 

Back to my imitation of a Hillary Clinton Aide.