Happy? Monday?

[susandennis]

I did find out today that the bank that lost my check and then found it does, indeed, charge $25 for stop payment.  I will have to formally contest it after the slap the fee on my account.  The bank that drew the check is slow as Christmas when you need them to do something, but I'm guessing they are speedy gonzoles on the stop payment thing and that it is too late to stop the stop.  We shall see. 

[edit: my guess was correct. the stop payment went through Friday - the day the new bank found the check. what a festuce! oh well. it will all get sorted eventually.]

[another edit - the last: turns out the bank will not return the check they lost and then found and then deposited to the estate until February 10. so the estate cannot reissue until then. and then can't be closed until it clears. so all my jumping up and down on the estate lady's back to close this fucker out, my stupid bank trick will delay it even futher. phuque. the end. i'm going to stress about this no more. at least i had always planned to put the money into an account and leave it there for a while so the delay is only costing me interest and it's a fair penalty for being too lazy to drive to my credit union.]

Meanwhile my anti-virus software has turned on me.  I've been using Grisoft's AVG for years.  They used to have this nice little Small Biz package where you could get 1-5 licenses for a very reasonable price.  Then my brother morphed into an Grisoft partner and I buy it from him.  I've only had the very best of experiences with it.  It just sat there and protected me on every computer I asked it to.  (It was heaven for Mom cause it never once asked her a question.) 

But, now, it's giving me fits on my desktop.  It updates at 1 a.m. and about every other morning I wake up and it wants me to reboot.  The same update on the little laptop never once asks me for a reboot.  But the one on the desktop is relentless and it's making me crazy.  There are two always running programs on the desktop that I'm thinking might be the culprit.  One is the webcam software but it never caused a problem before and it's the same stuff I've been using for years and the same version even.  The other is Outlook.  And I'm thinking Outlook is the villain.  Grisoft does provide fairly decent technical support and they have this little diagnostic program that you can run and it sends them an email with the details.  We shall see.

On happy consumer news, I continue to be impressed with my new coffee maker and with Hamilton Beach.  The thing has an automatic 2 hour shut off.  I need more than 2 hours.  Yesterday I poured the rest into a carafe but that kind of kills the joy of the no-carafe coffee maker.  So this morning, I went to the Hamilton Beach website and found their FAQ's.  My exact Q was listed with the answer!  Just turn it back on again!  (And, yes, for those of you coffee purists, drinking 2 hour old coffee is not primo but it works for me and me is all I need to worry about.)

Comments

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

A. That check should be returned faster than that. They are most likely talking about a hold which is STUPID since you know there is a stop payment fee on it. A decent bank will have a department that can return the check that day (or the next.) No, the physical check might not make it back, but it's most likely a copy anyway. (They do that now in this day of electronic everything.)

B. A stop payment fee is different from a chargeback (or redeposit fee) A stop payment fee would be from the bank that issued the check.

C. I'm not so impressed with this online bank and I think you should drive to your credit union! Or even better drive to your finance guy and have him invest it.

D. I just like the letters today.

[susandennis]

Clearly the bank is stupid or they wouldn't have lost the check in the first place.

The issuing bank is not going to charge me anything. I believe I have a fairly good (and documented) case for the stupid bank to waive the fee. We will see. But not until February 10.

My finance guy said to put the particular check into a high yield savings account for now. That's how I got to the clearly stupid bank in the first place.

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

I wish you were in my state and I would hook you up!

[susandennis]

wouldn't that be fun? as it is you are a great resourse and make me smarter.

i've decided no more stressing about this mess. it will get fixed eventually

[kayseaconklin.livejournal.com]

I have a love/hate relationship with Outlook. Over the years, every time data is transferred from an obsolete system into a spankin new one, with current versions of all the programs I use, the same glitches continue to haunt me. I think a tokoloshe lives in there.

[cinenaut.livejournal.com]

I installed Grisoft's free AVG version on my mom's PC years ago for the same reason you mentioned -- it doesn't ask her any questions and just works. However, last fall, she was having the exact same issue you mentioned -- it would d/l an update, then want the PC to reboot, and kept doing the update/reboot request on a daily basis..

When I was home for the holidays, I discovered that Grisoft had released a new version of AVG, and that AVG for some odd reason cannot d/l and install a major version change.

Solution: I uninstalled AVG, rebooted, downloaded the new version of AVG, and installed that. Rebooted, ran an update on AVG, problem went away.

[susandennis]

Wild on a stick! Grisoft just instructed me to do very nearly the same thing! Their instructions were more step by step BUT the essense is the same. Wild. I had compared versions - the machine that doesn't reboot has the same as the one that does. But, clearly there was a whoha somewhere. And I use the past tense optomistically - way more so now hearing your story.

I just did the reinstall today. The reboot requests were coming about every other day. So it might be several days before I can declare victory but after reading about your experience, I'm encouraged. Thanks!