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To: ArGee; zzeeman; Tax-chick; Dead Corpse

Hot inland, but cooling. Onshore winds picked up last evening and persisted all night bringing cool marine air in off the Pacific.

The youngest of my kids starts High School today.
The next youngest begins her Senior year next Monday.
They’re at different schools for reasons that turn out to involve a stroke of genius.

Car things are resolving. Zelle is worthless, BTW. Can’t conduct any appreciable commerce given the limits imposed by individual banks. Had to pay an additional 3.25% credit card transaction fee because Zelle won’t let me transact more than $500 at a time, and not more than $1,000 in any 30-day period.

The heads of Zelle are rumored to believe that their company offers a “service.”


Had to dig into my stash of pointy-headed words for this one.

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8,752 posted on 08/05/2026 1:45:04 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: HKMk23

When we decided to put the deposit down for our landscaping I didn’t want to put it on the credit card because our credit reports would have lit up. We normally don’t carry a balance that high. So I moved the money into the account that has a debit card and gave the landscaping people my debit card number.

Turns out the bank wouldn’t transact that much from the debit card. But I called them and they authorized it for a 24 hour period, which was long enough. The landscapers tried again and all was good.

I guess, on the one hand, the protections are nice. But on the other hand, it’s my money, let me use it, please.


8,753 posted on 08/05/2026 1:52:43 PM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: HKMk23

When I bought my Honda last year, I wrote a check for $45,000.

School starts already. That’s just nuts. All our community college and university kids start on the 17th. I’ll be taking care of my granddaughter two mornings and two afternoons during the week. I forget which ones, but I have a chart in a notebook.


8,754 posted on 08/05/2026 1:56:01 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I'm difficult. I have a two-year planner and an attitude problem.)
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To: HKMk23

Still say a bit too early for summer vacation to end...

Glad that car things are resolving... had to look “Zelle” up... I’m not with it anymore...


8,758 posted on 08/06/2026 5:56:02 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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