Seriously, the cat didn’t sleep with me last night. Nor did he start bothering me in the dark. I actually woke up on my own at 0615. I took a good look at him. No signs of illness; no fur coming out in chunks, no dragging limbs. I have no clue why he is being so considerate, but I am not going to turn it down.
In all other aspects today was a routine Tuesday except for one small challenge.
Have you attempted recently to get through those automated menus and speak to a real person at a bank? I needed to check on two things: new checks and use of my debit card to pay off a bill. According to the banking website – I could order checks on line. But the site dumped me directly to a third party which asked for all my banking information (account, routing number, address etc). Now being a really suspicious person, how do I know that someone hasn’t jacked the transfer? The IP certainly wasn’t in the same series of those of the bank. I thought about doing a WHOIS double check and thought – screw it, I will just talk to a human.
Fat chance of that. The “nice lady voice” was more than willing to give me a balance, tell me to use the app, etc. The old method of saying HELP or repeatedly hitting zero no longer works. It took over five minutes but I finally go through to a nice young man who solved both problems in less than a minute after we went through the verification dance. Again, I am tempted just to move my accounts to a local bank here so that I can just walk in for assistance.
My able, four footed assistant managed to get under the desk and behind my floss organizer bin.
then there was this slight issue of not being able to get out easily. I had to pull it all the way out from under the desk, then promptly shove it back in so that he could not repeat the action. After all, there is a dark space back there – it must need exploring.
The beads arrived yesterday – so I was able to complete Gemini (Nora Corbet Zodiac Girl. Stitched on 32 ct linen with all the called for. As it turned out, there were about 100 left to attach. I am not with adding the Zodiac signs to any of them. In twice monthly Tuesday evening Zoom, the owner of Acorns & Threads offered to take her off my hands as that was her zodiac sign. I declined but it certainly was a nice compliment.
