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pauraque_bkI don't currently owe money to any doctors or hospitals!
I am not even kidding... after I typed that sentence, the mail came and there was a bill from the hospital. But it's one I already paid, they just sent it before the check had gone through. And it did go through, I'm looking at it on my online bankery right now. Anyway.
If anybody asks, being sick is very expensive. I'm looking forward to cheap crappy universal health care. A friend of mine was recently arguing that the famed Canadian health care is not that good because you can end up on long waiting lists, so sometimes Canadians who can afford US prices come here for surgery and stuff. Key phrase: Canadians who can afford it. My strong suspicion is that poor people are better off with the option of waiting in line than no options at all. Of course I'm not Canadian so what do I know.
I got my new fone. As previously reported, I loved my old fone but the battery was too old and they don't make that kind anymore. It couldn't hold a charge for very long, and sometimes it would do cute little things like not deliver texts for hours, or not let anyone hear me when I talked.
I had to traipse to the FedEx place to get the new one because they refused to deliver it at a time I was actually there. If I'd been smrt I would have had it delivered to work, but it didn't occur to me they would insist on a signature.
I hate new things, but I'll get used to it. All I really ask is that it flips open (check) and has the ability to make a ringing sound when it rings (yes, though not as good as the ringing sound on the old fone).
Supposedly you can make the battery last longer by never plugging it in until it's actually dead. I guess I will try this. In which case I need an alarm clock, because I always used my phone for that. I think I have one somewhere already.
Speaking of new things, apparently there is no Citibank in Montpelier. I didn't believe![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_hannelore so I checked, and it's true. There are some Citibank ATMs in 7-11s in the southern part of Vermont, but nary a bank. So I have to close my bank account when I move, and get a new one. I've never closed a bank account before, and when I opened the account I have now, I was like 15 and my mom helped me.
When you close a bank account do you make a new one first and they transfer the funds, or how do they do it? I need help from a grown up. :|
I got a new planner. Every year it's a struggle because I can never find the same kind of planner I had before, and nowhere ever has a good one. I liked the one I had, but it was academic so it went June-June, and since the most important life events I need to plan are taking place in the summer, this wasn't really that good. But I found an awesome one at the bookstore that runs March 2009-August 2010! For me this might as well be infinite, because that's beyond the amount of time I'm capable of planning ahead. And it's a size that fits in the pocket of my man-bag. And it has a week per page with enough room to actually write things.
The only thing I don't like about it is that it isn't spiral bound so it won't lie flat. Also the same thing I dislike about every calendar, which is that in WoW, the weeks start on Tuesday, and there are obviously no calendars that reflect that. Blizzard could maybe squeeze some more cash out of us geeks if they made planners where the weeks run Tuesday-Monday? And with pictures of bodybuilder-looking orcs and anorexic-looking belfs, I suppose.
I think I need a mop. Yeah. Floor is dirty... maybe a mop would help that.
I had a dream that I was packing boxes to be shipped to my new place. I think my imagination is broken.
I am not even kidding... after I typed that sentence, the mail came and there was a bill from the hospital. But it's one I already paid, they just sent it before the check had gone through. And it did go through, I'm looking at it on my online bankery right now. Anyway.
If anybody asks, being sick is very expensive. I'm looking forward to cheap crappy universal health care. A friend of mine was recently arguing that the famed Canadian health care is not that good because you can end up on long waiting lists, so sometimes Canadians who can afford US prices come here for surgery and stuff. Key phrase: Canadians who can afford it. My strong suspicion is that poor people are better off with the option of waiting in line than no options at all. Of course I'm not Canadian so what do I know.
I got my new fone. As previously reported, I loved my old fone but the battery was too old and they don't make that kind anymore. It couldn't hold a charge for very long, and sometimes it would do cute little things like not deliver texts for hours, or not let anyone hear me when I talked.
I had to traipse to the FedEx place to get the new one because they refused to deliver it at a time I was actually there. If I'd been smrt I would have had it delivered to work, but it didn't occur to me they would insist on a signature.
I hate new things, but I'll get used to it. All I really ask is that it flips open (check) and has the ability to make a ringing sound when it rings (yes, though not as good as the ringing sound on the old fone).
Supposedly you can make the battery last longer by never plugging it in until it's actually dead. I guess I will try this. In which case I need an alarm clock, because I always used my phone for that. I think I have one somewhere already.
Speaking of new things, apparently there is no Citibank in Montpelier. I didn't believe
_hannelore so I checked, and it's true. There are some Citibank ATMs in 7-11s in the southern part of Vermont, but nary a bank. So I have to close my bank account when I move, and get a new one. I've never closed a bank account before, and when I opened the account I have now, I was like 15 and my mom helped me.When you close a bank account do you make a new one first and they transfer the funds, or how do they do it? I need help from a grown up. :|
I got a new planner. Every year it's a struggle because I can never find the same kind of planner I had before, and nowhere ever has a good one. I liked the one I had, but it was academic so it went June-June, and since the most important life events I need to plan are taking place in the summer, this wasn't really that good. But I found an awesome one at the bookstore that runs March 2009-August 2010! For me this might as well be infinite, because that's beyond the amount of time I'm capable of planning ahead. And it's a size that fits in the pocket of my man-bag. And it has a week per page with enough room to actually write things.
The only thing I don't like about it is that it isn't spiral bound so it won't lie flat. Also the same thing I dislike about every calendar, which is that in WoW, the weeks start on Tuesday, and there are obviously no calendars that reflect that. Blizzard could maybe squeeze some more cash out of us geeks if they made planners where the weeks run Tuesday-Monday? And with pictures of bodybuilder-looking orcs and anorexic-looking belfs, I suppose.
I think I need a mop. Yeah. Floor is dirty... maybe a mop would help that.
I had a dream that I was packing boxes to be shipped to my new place. I think my imagination is broken.
