It's Personal...

Blasted · Post by **Blasted** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 11:37 pm

I'm a big fan of ultraedit, but it's got more bells and whistles than a swiss cowherd.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 4:20 am

God dammit.

Day before payday and I get an overdraft notice from the bank. In the middle of the night, when I can't call them to straighten it out and find out how this happened because I know, for a stone-cold fact, that I haven't used my checking account all damn week because I knew I was getting low.

So I get to investigate this at a bank tomorrow. Fun.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 4:36 am

If you've shopped at Target lately, someone may have stolen your card info.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 6:05 am

I thought about that, but I haven't shopped at Target in months.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 7:34 pm

Well, whatever happened, I hope it gets worked out. I've had that happen before and it sucks.

If you can trace what happened, try going to the local branch of your bank and seeing if they'll reverse the overdraft charge.

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 8:18 pm

Putin's pet Nazi thugs got the stale market closed. I'll manage, because I'm employed, but the elderly will be dying from malnutrition.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 3:25 am

Maj wrote:Well, whatever happened, I hope it gets worked out. I've had that happen before and it sucks.

If you can trace what happened, try going to the local branch of your bank and seeing if they'll reverse the overdraft charge.

So turns out the bank has instituted a monthly checking account fee. I -knew- I was running pretty close, but, screw it, guy has to pay his medical bills. Turns out I would have been fine had they not invented a fee for people who don't get a certain amount direct deposited into their checking account at a time.

Once they saw I've been a customer for almost five years and haven't overdrawn and, basically, been a loyal, no-trouble customer, they waived the penalties and all that.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 3:59 am

Oh, good! That's great news. When my former bank started with the fees, and the same thing happened to me, I switched and ended up at a credit union. It was a pain in the ass (I'd had the same bank for over 15 years), but has been nothing but beneficial. I'm glad your situation got worked out.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 4:10 am

I'm thinking of switching out, but I chose this bank because

1) Pretty large chain/well-known bank

And 2) There's one across the street from work and it's handy to be able to stroll across the street.

PoliteNewb · Post by **PoliteNewb** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 7:52 am

I recently switched from Wells Fargo to my local credit union...the improvement is substantial.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 4:37 pm

My biggest worry was that by switching to a CU, I would be limiting myself access-wise... Until I learned credit unions frequently belong (not all of them do) to a nationwide network that has more service points than most banks. And while most banks have caught up (I think), I really love being able to scan and deposit checks at home.

codeGlaze · Post by **codeGlaze** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:23 am

A lot of credit unions and local banks are up on most of the tech trends now. I'm considering switching to one, myself, for convenience and service.

My boss switched last year and it's worked out pretty well.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 8:50 pm

Maj wrote:If you've shopped at Target lately, someone may have stolen your card info.

That happened to us.

erik · Post by **erik** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 3:34 am

Happened to my wife's parents as well already. Been checkin the credit card history and so far we've been okay. I wonder if I should just call our credit card company and cancel (or have them get us a new number/card) to head off the hassle.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 1:50 pm

Was this all recent for you? I heard someone at work talking about "the credit card companies getting hacked", but I didn't hear any details, nor have I heard anything else on the matter. I have no idea what her source was. It sounded quite vague.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 3:38 pm

At the end of November, someone hacked Target. From what I gather, they basically installed a keylogger analogue for credit card information, so they got the credit card numbers of anyone who used one in Target stores until it was discovered on December 15th. Apparently any long-term info storage was either more secure or heavily encrypted, so people who didn't shop in that timeframe were unaffected.

I don't think there were any actual breaches at credit card companies, but they're advising affected people to change passwords and replace cards on general principle.

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Fri Dec 27, 2013 12:33 pm

Fuck, people seriously think Windows Desktop is storage space within the box but not on the hard drive, while Recycle Bin is somehow independent of the box and works more or less like the actual physical bin under the table.

Even better, they think files deleted by them from a VIRTUALIZED network drive get copied into their own Recycle Bin instead. Dun dun dun.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Dec 27, 2013 1:04 pm

i know.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:12 am

So, my adorable little whiskered murderer started the new year off right, catching a mouse within the first two hours.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:17 pm

Well, both Cat and Mouse were both brave and stupid to venture out in the night from the 31st to the 1st, so a 50/50 death/survival is pretty much spot on.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Wed Jan 01, 2014 11:11 pm

Josh_Kablack wrote:So, my adorable little whiskered murderer started the new year off right, catching a mouse within the first two hours.

My cat took out a Northern short-tailed shrew last night, at around dinner time. I'm not quite sure where the fuck he found one in the middle of winter.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 9:05 pm

My cat's never gone psyco-killer a small, helpless animal (he's an indoor cat). Instead, he has used his murder-kitty talents on my arms, legs, chest and stomach, head, and there was one time where he clawed my crotch.

But it was all as a sign of love and affection.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 9:22 pm

I know lots of cats that love nuts.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 12:37 am

You know that when they bring you living things they expect you to kill and eat them because they think you are too incompetent to actually catch some prey yourself right?

mine brought me rabbits. living ones. he was a big mean old cat that one . .
hunted dogs for fun. the big danish one from across the street ran from him.
i still miss him sometimes ._.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Mon Jan 06, 2014 4:06 am

So Atlantic Express closed up shop on Dec 31st.

Atlantic Express is one of the biggest bus services for school transportation (among other things). My school district called me up two hours ago and told me that the school district is closed tomorrow because of unforeseen student transportation issues. The district has known that the company filed for bankruptcy a month or two ago. They knew that they were closing bus routes. Why the fuck don't these fuckers have a contingency plan that isn't closing school.

Incidentally, there wasn't any school on thursday or friday either because of that eccentric witch called NATURE! I love my kid but she needs to bother her teachers a little.

/rant.

In other news, the kid and I have been playing Arkham Horror for the last few days. So far her seven year old brain is okay with cosmic horror apparently.