I just has a horribile thought. If anyone ever reads this, they will know just about every thing I do. Should I worry?? Nah, never gonna happen!
However just in case, my real name is Ebeneezer and my number is 555-1212. Gimme a call.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Still working but Getting Dumber all the time
OK, I admit it, old age is shrinking my brain. At least that's what I'm gonna blame it on for now. At this point, we should be stuffing every available penny into some kind of 401, supersaver, get rich quick account. Guess what..? It ain't happening!
We now own ( really the bank owns) a large diesel truck and a fifth wheel trailer. I don't want to wait till I can't remember whether or not I went potty yesterday to travel around a bit. I want to enjoy the outdoors while I can.
Back to the dumber part. Gee you would think that I might pay attention to the gas prices, the falling stock market, and the crashing economy. You might even thing I should be burying money in a tin can in the back yard from fear that the banks are gonna all come crashing down.
Well poo on that!! If they want me they'll have to catch me first. Mwa-haa-haa!!!
Silly truck!! The diesel gets about the same mileage as my Toyota does. And pollutes less. Who knew...?
Later dudes...
We now own ( really the bank owns) a large diesel truck and a fifth wheel trailer. I don't want to wait till I can't remember whether or not I went potty yesterday to travel around a bit. I want to enjoy the outdoors while I can.
Back to the dumber part. Gee you would think that I might pay attention to the gas prices, the falling stock market, and the crashing economy. You might even thing I should be burying money in a tin can in the back yard from fear that the banks are gonna all come crashing down.
Well poo on that!! If they want me they'll have to catch me first. Mwa-haa-haa!!!
Silly truck!! The diesel gets about the same mileage as my Toyota does. And pollutes less. Who knew...?
Later dudes...
Sunday, January 13, 2008
idiots, cretins, and other things that go "splat"
There are quite a few things that can cause me to get up on a soapbox and make a fool out of myself trying to fix the world. Most of the time it doesn't want to be fixed. The rest of the time I am talking to people that don't seem to realize that my problems are more important than theirs. This probably includes you, dear reader, so if your particular world is already fixed you can close this and skip my ranting.
Spam. If the credit card companies quit creating all those offers for cards that I didn't ask for then the ones I do have could probably afford to lower my current rate. I am just saying that all that paper, glossy printing, inserts, postage, envelopes, etc. obviously adds up to some real money. Assuming about $2.00 per person to send those out to about 200,000,000 people that have active bank accounts in the U.S. adds up to a tidy sum (you do the math). multiply that by the guess that there are about 20 to 30 companies doing just that and the number begins to stagger me. I'm basing this on just my personal experience. Others may get more or less of this crud than I do.
On top of that I have to waste electricity, machine wear, and time to shread about three inch tall stacks of this stuff every month.
To make things even better they are not even looking at what they do. This month I got four separate offers for a new user promotional interest rate from the same company. I already have a card from that company. Gee, can I get the new one, transfer balances from the old one and cancel it? I don't think they would let me do that. Man, listen to that shredder noise drone on, and on, and on.
Oh well the U.S. Mail would probably go bankrupt if they quit. That would put some people out-of-work and They would come looking for me.
Crap, I'm getting paranoid!! Later folks, I gotta go hide my head in the laundry basket until it's safe to come back out.
Spam. If the credit card companies quit creating all those offers for cards that I didn't ask for then the ones I do have could probably afford to lower my current rate. I am just saying that all that paper, glossy printing, inserts, postage, envelopes, etc. obviously adds up to some real money. Assuming about $2.00 per person to send those out to about 200,000,000 people that have active bank accounts in the U.S. adds up to a tidy sum (you do the math). multiply that by the guess that there are about 20 to 30 companies doing just that and the number begins to stagger me. I'm basing this on just my personal experience. Others may get more or less of this crud than I do.
On top of that I have to waste electricity, machine wear, and time to shread about three inch tall stacks of this stuff every month.
To make things even better they are not even looking at what they do. This month I got four separate offers for a new user promotional interest rate from the same company. I already have a card from that company. Gee, can I get the new one, transfer balances from the old one and cancel it? I don't think they would let me do that. Man, listen to that shredder noise drone on, and on, and on.
Oh well the U.S. Mail would probably go bankrupt if they quit. That would put some people out-of-work and They would come looking for me.
Crap, I'm getting paranoid!! Later folks, I gotta go hide my head in the laundry basket until it's safe to come back out.
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