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Chase Doubles The Debit But Isn't Sure When They'll Get Around To Fixing It
5/3 is awful. Aside from their crummy ATMs, their customer service is abhorrent. Every time I had to call their service line it was like stepping into the 2nd ring of hell, even just to get a new debit card.
I switched from them years ago after they routed a regular check I deposited through the wrong bank (WaMu check, sent to Wells Fargo), told me it had cleared, then took it all back and mailed me the NSF'd check. Their reason for not rescinding the daily overdraft was that "Washington Mutual is such a tiny bank so they didn't know where to send it." That's what the branch manager told me to my face. Their fees completely ate up the check's worth and then some... when I said she (the branch manager) needed to make it right or I was switching banks she told me to not threaten her or she wasn't going to help me.. and then MAGNANIMOUSLY gave me back the daily OD fees, but not the OD fees on the transactions.
I then went up to one of the tellers, closed my account, took my remaining 20$ and opened another checking account with another bank. No problems since.
Gas Prices Have Gone Up 18 Cents In The Past 2 Weeks
What, scooter riders? I agree. They do have brain injuries, but in a good way. :-D
Gas Prices Have Gone Up 18 Cents In The Past 2 Weeks
It depends on what you get re: insurance. The bikes at my house are all 20+ years old, and insurance runs me about 100$/year per bike. When your bike is that old, you also don't really have to worry too much about replacing it, since it's irreplacable due to age, so I run on liability and high Personal Injury coverage.
Another good option is a scooter, I shit you not. Cheap to insure, and most 50cc scooters get around 80-90mpg. Then you don't have to wear full leathers. To be fair, there are some great lightweight textiles available for hot weather that are well armored too.
Gas Prices Have Gone Up 18 Cents In The Past 2 Weeks
Summer's coming. 1 word: motorcycle. Average ~50-55 mpg and a thrill.
Speed Up Your Reading Ability
Did you hear about it on Roller Derby too? My Com-prension has inc-reased wonder-fully!
Docs Again Warn Against TV For Kids Under 2
+1. More fodder for the sanctimommies- great, just what we all needed. I can think of nothing more disgusting than the way parents are already pitted against one another over things like breastfeeding.. but let's take a thing we already know needs moderation (like TV) and use it to make the divide wider.
I feel terribly bad for the people whose lives are so completely wrapped up in their kids' that the only way they can feel like they're doing The Right Thing is to make all other parents feel like shit for not doing the same. Not for now, though.. after their kids are high school/college age and are moving on with their lives, those parents are generally going to be bitter people to be around when they find they don't have anyone left to helicopter.
Photographer Looking For People To Do Their Jobs For Free
So, basically you're telling the person to do TFP but not offer the 'P'? How is it any better than asking the photographer to do a wedding without compensation for a photographer to hire a model on TFP but not offer any prints? I've run into people like that in my time, and they were pretty sleazy for the most part.
Back when digital prints weren't completely the norm yet (and it was still important for a model to have a physical portfolio), I had a clause in my commercial and non-commercial releases that said that if the work was 'TFP' then I had to be compensated with actual prints, or I was to be paid my full hourly studio rate. The concept of TFP is that it is expensive and time consuming to acquire (good, professional) prints otherwise, so the money that the model would have used to get said prints is offset by actually having the prints.
But by all means, photogs, keep offering that 10-cent CD when you say 'TFP', and keep yourself limited to co-eds and strippers.
END RANT.
Did FTC Spoil Its Own Surprise Announcement?
Or maybe those stupid Z-Coil spring shoes? I swear I follow the same rules when interacting with a Z-Coil person as I do those balance bracelet folks.
Russia Wants To Connect With Alaska Via Tunnel
Ewan MacGregor and Charlie Boorman could have used a tunnel right there back in 2004. :-)
Comments from elysse
Should Hospitals Stop Giving Out Free Samples Of Baby Formula To New Moms?
As a mother of now 8-year-old twins, I feel for you. I kept up breastfeeding my girls for about 8 weeks, and I reached a point where I decided that having a sane mother long-term was better than having a crazy mom who breastfed. It was never an issue of production for me- my twins just never fed together except for the first couple of days. They tended to stagger their feedings by about 1-2 hours, compounded by them wanting fed every 3-4 hours.... 24 hours a day, and they would not change their habits. I never got to get any real semblance of sleep, and I don't mean that in the "new parent" way, either.
The La Leche League book on breastfeeding multiples was very helpful, in my case I think it kept me going for that extra month. If you do end up going to the bottle, be prepared for the nasty comments and being made to feel like an utter failure because you aren't as good as little singleton Caitlin's mom who breastfed her until she was 3.. F them; they don't live your life.
The only real advice I can give you is this: the first year will be brutal, you probably won't remember it (I don't, other multiples parents around here don't either) so take pictures. Also- it gets way better as they become more autonomous.