Happy? Monday?
Jan. 29th, 2007 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI 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.)
[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.)
