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[Jrand74]

My credit card statement came today.  I went to pay it online and lo and behold my January 15 check payment was posted yesterday.

And my balance was that much less than the paper statement I received.

I hadn't received an email that the payment was received.....but anyway I went ahead and paid the balance online and will probably do so from now on.

[Jrand74]

Page Three Online Payment Dance.

[ChasSmith]

I've got the box. And you don't.

Yes! This is how it is! The struggle is real!

[ChasSmith]

I've been paying all my bills online for several years. Actually, probably longer than "several". But I do NOT allow any of them to rope me into auto-pay.

Actually, I take that back. My home and auto insurance premiums get taken out that way, which supposedly also gives a bit of a discount. Likewise, a few subscriptions, but those come out of my AmEx card because I figure if I ever have a problem with them, AmEx can have the pleasure of dealing with it. But regular bills? I log onto each site every month and initiate the payment.

[ChasSmith]

I've got the box. And you don't.

Yes! This is how it is! The struggle is real!

However, it's also amusing to see them taking turns. One will sit in the box for however long, and when he/she has thought of something better to do, the other one is perfectly content to hop in and take it over.

[singdaw]

Ashes the cat, lost in Maine six years ago, was found in Florida this week. Here is Ashes being transported back to the original owner.

[Ron Pulliam]

Does that mean that Ashes is just another "snow cat bird"?

[singdaw]

 

[elmore3003]

My body did not want to behave today. I had several embarrassing moments including having to use the ER public restroom, which was a total mess. As soon as I got home, I threw all my clothes into the hamper and took a bath.

[elmore3003]

I still hate my life.

[Jane]

From DR John:

If I can't walk out on a glass platform over Chicago or Seattle. I ain't swimming in something like that.

 

[George]

Trouble in River City:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marchershberg/2022/02/09/music-men-sue-the-music-man-after-their-broadway-dreams-are-dashed/?sh=720e49ee7fd6&fbclid=IwAR3fMCjNpqWMGE7X_g7Sx8UiYot9eyocJaL0PKQyQFebLyEmczGUgtjF9Lw

Oh, my.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - ten hours of needed sleep. Several telephonic conversations. Had the heat off yesterday because it was like summer - but today is cold so I'm heating up the home environment now.

[bk]

Condolences to Ginny.

[bk]

Those taquito things were just too spicy that late at night and I had trouble sleeping for the first hour - was in bed by one for a change.

[bk]

Many Pepcids later, I slept like a baby.

[George]

I wonder what BK's been up to this time!

Been there...done that.

[George]

Green's review is actually better than I expected, and I agree with his points of politically cleaning up a period show. It's something I hate.

Absolutely. What he's pointed out, and what I've heard elsewhere, is an embarrassment.

I simply do not understand the whitewashing, so to speak, of plays written about periods in history when ugly attitudes were the norm and are reflected in the stories being told.  For the most part, the plays are poking fun, or condemning, those antiquated mores.

Today, it seems that folks are offended by truth at all turns.

Pretending that something didn't exist by eliminating it from plays or books -- and by banning movies, for pity's sake -- seems more a way to pave the path toward returning to those habits/beliefs/traits that are things that should be continuously referenced to prevent such returns.

Well said, all!  I completely agree!

[George]

Val Kilmer IS Moses.

and

Sarah Palin IS psycho.

[Jane]

I watched, on Disney+, "Pollyanna" last night. The original with Hayley Mills.

It has been decades since I last saw it.

It remains a delight.

One of the things that stuck with me when I first saw it and which impressed me last night is the ending.  There is no resolution about her future in terms of walking again, but her spirit was returned to her by the people she had touched.

And all this time I thought she walked again.

[Jane]

I need to watch Pollyanna again

[Jane]

My credit card statement came today.  I went to pay it online and lo and behold my January 15 check payment was posted yesterday.

And my balance was that much less than the paper statement I received.

I hadn't received an email that the payment was received.....but anyway I went ahead and paid the balance online and will probably do so from now on.

I am relieved for you that the missing check was posted to your account.

[Jane]

I've got the box. And you don't.

Cute

[Jane]

I've got the box. And you don't.

Yes! This is how it is! The struggle is real!

However, it's also amusing to see them taking turns. One will sit in the box for however long, and when he/she has thought of something better to do, the other one is perfectly content to hop in and take it over.

[ChasSmith]

BK - I just texted one of those cat cartoons to two people, and Apple somehow succeeded in replacing one person's name (which doesn't start with either B or K) with yours. So you're probably looking at it right now and saying WTF? Sorry! 

[Jane]

[Jane]

Last night instead of sleeping I finished reading The Sweetness of Water.

[Jane]

Probably because I finished that, my brain wouldn't shut down and I was wide awake.

[Jane]

I began reading The Bravest Voices, originally published in 1950 as We Followed Our Stars (a title I prefer).

[Jane]

I simply do not understand the whitewashing, so to speak, of plays written about periods in history when ugly attitudes were the norm and are reflected in the stories being told.  For the most part, the plays are poking fun, or condemning, those antiquated mores.

Today, it seems that folks are offended by truth at all turns.

Pretending that something didn't exist by eliminating it from plays or books -- and by banning movies, for pity's sake -- seems more a way to pave the path toward returning to those habits/beliefs/traits that are things that should be continuously referenced to prevent such returns.

There is a disclaimer at the beginning of The Bravest Voices, part of which states...
"The publisher has preserved the original language of the author to accurately represent those times and modes of expression, and to stay true to her story."

I cannot fathom why this disclaimer is necessary, or why anyone would consider changing any of Ida Cook's memoir.