CATCHING UP (MAYBE)

CONFLUENCE 2007 -- MARGARET AND KRISTOPH
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Back to the Land O'Ledley after a relaxing and refreshing weekend spent with friends from my college days and their many kids, in our usual cabin deep in the Pennsylvania wilds. A couple posts on the weekend will ensue, as it raised a couple streams of thought I want to bounce about. But in the meantime, I realize that I never did finish my conrep from the previous weekend's Confluence. Technically, I never even started it, since when we left our intrepid protagonist, it was still Thursday and the con hadn't even started.

So ... ( A quick smattering of Confluence highlights )

BANKS, TODDLERS AND OTHER PRE-LOGICAL ENTITIES

After three weeks of wrangling with four different institutions, including two banks, I've finally got a Major Financial Wrinkle ironed out and resolved. And can now do stuff like, oh, pay bills.

Among things learned over the past month is that you need to talk with banks like you would small children, as both are known to do things with apparently no logical steps leading up to action. ("Why did you flush the cat?" "I don't know." "Why did you stall my transaction for a month?" "We don't know.")

Anyway, it's over. Next time I go to my bank, I bring Cheerios.

State O'Mind: Relieved