I’m still all a-flutter about this credit card thing.
But I am a fox. I am a trickster. I am clever and resourceful. I can figure a way out of this trap that I’m in.
There are probably other places that could sell me something superior to the cards I have been using.
There might even be some way to spend money online and have it come directly from my bank account, which would sure as fuck simplify things.
Then all I would have to do is figure out Venmo or the like so I could pay Joe the rent every month, and I would never have to go to the bank again.
That sounds nice.
Right now, I am investigating the option of doing my grocery shopping online then having Julian go pick it up for me.
That would be easier for him, as he would not having to do my shopping for me from a shopping list any more, and easier for me, as I won’t have to come up with said shopping list any more.
A task I find strangely difficult. Too many decisions requiring too much forethought.
That’s hard on my fuzzy little brain.
The key question right now is, can a grocery pickup be paid for in cash at the time it is picked up, or does it have to be paid for in advance via credit card?
Being able to pay on pickup would certainly make sense and be convenient. But there are dickwads out there who will order groceries then never show up to pick them up, thus wasting the employee’s time, and so I can see the stores wanting, as it were, the money up front.
We shall see.
Well Safeway wants payment up front even for pickup, anyhow.
On the plus side, if I do end up getting credit card functionality again, it looks like maybe Safeway has their own delivery service, not Instacart, so maybe when I have a credit card again, I will be able to order my stuff online like I used to do.
That would sure be nice.
Assuming they don’t fucking reject my credit card. Grr.
Oh well, at least I’m getting the same gift everyone else gets this time of year : stress!
It could be argued that having a credit card is increasingly mandatory in today’s world and therefore the government should pay for one for me.
Go ahead and give it a credit limit of zero. I don’t want a loan anyhow. I just want to be able to spend money online.
Money I already have.
God damn it, why do things always have to break down and complicate matters? None of this would be needed if my Pay Power login hadn’t stopped working for no reason.
Well the sun has gone down and that means I am getting very sleepy. Time for for me to settle down for a long winter’s nap.
Now where did I put my cap?
More after the break.
Life’s like that
Woke up feeling grumpy. Grr.
Well technically, I woke up in a sweaty, incoherent quagmire of fried brain cells and partial dehydration, but once that wore off, I was grumpy.
In between, I staggered out to the kitchen, looking for some of the leftover pizza from last night’s Pizza Hut. And lo and behold, there it was carefully preserved in layers of paper towel in a Tupperware container.
And there it stayed because I could not get the goddamned thing open. It’s like it was pressure locked shut, like Joe had somehow removed all the air from the container and now it was being held shut by the weight of Earth’s atmosphere.
But that’s probably not the case.
After that frustrating experience, you bet I am feeling grumpy.
It didn’t help that, after making myself a distinctly unfun PB&J, I returned to my room only to find I had forgotten to get myself a can of beverage.
Even though I was sure I remembered grabbing one. A decaf diet cola.
I get back to the room. I unpack this and that, and look around for my drink. And there’s a can of diet cola.
Psych! It’s empty. I drank it earlier.
Maybe that’s the “taking one out of the fridge” I remember? Freaky.
So then I had to go back.
Ergo grumpy. Grr. Arrrgh.
You’d have to be a computer….
Had a tech consult with my fuzzy friends about my upcoming purchase of upgrades.
Furries are the people to go to for this kind of thing. Like 3/4 of them work in IT. Always at least a few hardware experts around.
The results were, of course, bewildering. They talked about a lot of things I don’t understand and gave me a lot of advice that went straight over my head.
But I emerged from it with a list of things to buy, so, victory there.
Expensive things. The Ryzen 7 5800x3D CPU they want me to get is about $420 CDN.
Yikes. Scuttlebutt about it is that it’s by far the fastest thing around. Even faster than chips that cost way more.
Groovy. But that price, oy. Dunno if I can get that much together.
I hope there’s a REALLY good Boxing Week sale waiting for me that will take like $100 off that price.
And the motherboard’s another $120. I get the feeling that I will be buying this setup piece by piece over a long period of time.
Another complexity : the good news is that my sister Catherine sent me a $150 Amazon virtual gift card for Xmas! Woohoo!
The less good news is that it’s for American Amazon, Amazon.com, and while that does mean it’s in big sexy American bux (yay), it also means that if I buy anything major like a CPU with that Amazon.com money, odds are very good that it would then get slapped with a serious amount of import fees when it crossed the border.
Makes me wish I had a friend just across the border in Washington State who was willing to engage in a little light smuggling for me .
Just hide it in a big ol’ box of well used sex toys. They never search those.
So I dunno. It’s all so complicated.
I just want to buy things!
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.