Just in case anyone missed my endless social media flogging, I had a new story come out this week. Here’s the link:
Skinny Charlie’s Orbiting Teepee.
And in other author news, I finally have an announcement about book 2: It will be here September 5.
I finished the last bits today and put it all together. I need to double check the files and take a break to rest my eyeballs in a gentle saline solution. I’ve been staring at the screen too long.
I’ve been dying to write a long rant about my bank but since I had a story come out, I didn’t want that to be the top post. But now that the furor has passed, I’ll go ahead.
Every couple has to figure out their own way to share money. Our general attitude is that it’s both of our money, but we keep it in separate piles. For my main separate pile I had Bob on the savings but I opened the checking later so he wasn’t on that. (Spoiler alert: he’s still not on it.)
The bank sent me a notice that they automatically enrolled me in their overdraft protection program. I did not want to be automatically enrolled in anything. Since I have a savings account, I wanted that to be my overdraft protection.
I logged into that account and commenced with the clicking and the clicking. It kept telling me I don’t have a savings account.
Later, when I had time to dick around, I phoned. They said, you have to have the same people on the checking account and the savings account if you want to link them.
So I logged back in and commenced with the clicking until I sent Bob an invitation to join the checking account. He received no invite. We did this for two rounds before we found time to both sit in the room at the same time and phone them again.
Turns out Bob did not have an email account linked to the savings so who knows where they were sending the invitation.
We were on the phone with them for 45 minutes. I have no idea what the problem was. Something something credit card. We don’t have a credit card. Bob reading off endless data for their files. We finally begged to end the call, we have lives.
Last I checked, Bob is still pending to be added to the account. I still don’t know what’s what. All this so I can use my savings as overdraft protection. Number of purchases I have overdrafted in my lifetime: 0.
I have many more people who are doing it wrong for future stories. Terrible legal booksellers? New story on that. The rental house next door? Funny you should ask.
More details to come.
My sweetheart has a medical procedure this week that requires dietary prep including 24 hours of fasting later this week. Pray for us!
I’ve got the okay to stay home tomorrow during the eclipse-o-pocalypse. Everyone enjoy your moon on sun action.
