Goodbye Apocalypse

[susandennis]

You know that field hospital that the Army put up across the street? Set to open tomorrow?

Well, they just announced that they are disassembling it and giving it back to the Army for deployment elsewhere. No shit. My morning walk Army buddies are taking their toys and going home.

My cynical self says that everyone will read this as "Yahoo, it's over!!" and come out in droves and spread the virus all around and we'll have Instant Round 2.

I have a savings account, a checking account, a Visa and a Mastercard at Capital One. I've never loved them and they are messing up my finance tracker. So time to move on.

So today I opened an account at Simple. I had done my research. They had everything I needed. The only con listed was no printed checks. Who the hell cares? I haven't written a check in years. Opened a checking and a savings account. It was a breeze. Very straight forward. Very Simple. Then I went to set up Bill Pay. And I couldn't find it. WTF?

I googled only to learn that in December of 2019, Simple abandoned bill pay and offered printed checks instead. WTF????? So I quickly killed the transfer of funds I had set up. Then I called the help line to find out what else I needed to do to back out of this Very Bad Decision. I got the nicest guy on the face of the earth. Easy to understand, no bullshit, never even used my name once. Heard my story and said that all I needed to do was send an email so they would have my request in writing. He said he could see that the transfers had canceled. I was then even more bummed at this place! They are perfect for me. Phuck.

Not sure what I'll do next. I'm in Simple mourning. I applied for a Citi Visa. Maybe I'll just open checking and savings accounts there.

We're doing laundry here. Lots o' laundry. I stripped the bed. I tossed in the bathroom rugs. All the clothes. Laundry.

Biggie demanded a photo.

Comments

[days-unfolding.livejournal.com]

Biggie is looking dapper with that collar.

[jaywil.livejournal.com]

Has biggie showed any signs of missing The Smalls?

[susandennis]

So hard to tell. I feel like he's sensing a difference but that's probably me projecting.

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

Have you heard or read anything about an expected second wave of the virus? I've been thinking that will happen but yet nothing I read is indicating the expectation of it....

[galebird.livejournal.com]

Biggie looks prepared to address the nation on serious topics.

[meowmensteen]

"Kibble. Why don't I have all of it?"

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

More presidential than the president in that tie!

[christalin80.livejournal.com]

Biggie is lookin' good!

Nothing much

[(Anonymous)]

I think Biggie needs a little brother.

[markmc03.livejournal.com]

I gave up on banks years back. I got sick of hearing about their profits as they announce increases in charges. I then moved my money to a Credit Union which not only offered its customers 55 and older all free services. They also keep their profits in the community.

[nay darkow (from livejournal.com)]

I love seeing him

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Biggie seems to be coping well with being an only cat - he does look very commanding!

Biggie and his bow tie

[(Anonymous)]

Biggie for president. I'd vote for that cat.

[mdlbear]

I've been using BECU for about half my banking; it has bill pay but it isn't quite as convenient as Union Bank, which I've been using for 40-odd years for the other half. BECU has free checking, and free ATMs all over the Seattle area.

[susandennis]

Yeah, I've been using BECU since the early 90's. It's ok. It does not pay as well (savings interest) as other places and their online banking hates my browser with a passion. BUT the bill pay works and it is nice to have actual branches if/when needed. So I think I'm going to use a combo of BECU and Simple bank.

[henare.livejournal.com]

I've been pretty happy with Simple. I use it as my daily spender, doing anything more substantial at a local CU ... I dumped all my big bank relationships (except for Capital One) when I got rid of my house. I'm now starting to winnow down my CU relationships (I belong to two local CUs and two national CUs ... one of the local CUs is pretty inept and they're all but gone; the other one is pretty decent.

[susandennis]

So glad to hear it about Simple. I'm a little frustrated with their system. I'm kind of used to Account=see balance/transactions, Net Account=see balance/transactions but they are clearly built differently. Also, it seems to take forever to transfer money into them. Once it all gets in there (I was too chicken to do one big dump), I'm sure it will get better.

I have one Capital One credit card that pays too much in cash back to dump but the rest... fallow! And, yep, I have credit union ties for backup/just in case. They have branches here.

I'm feeling good about the changes.

[ellinou.livejournal.com]

So... they built 99% of a hospital, then decided to unbuild it? Your country is weird, man...

[susandennis]

Your country is weird, man...

Truer words were never spoken!