why I should probably pay the old fashioned way

Once again paying bills online has failed me. This time the billpay didn't fail. I have a record of payment but the electrical company says I didn't pay. (their amount doesn't even match the statement but it's probably a 10$ late fee...) And if that freaking all day meeting isn't canceled, I'm going to have to sneak out on break and make a call. GRRR

Also forgot to pay another one. My fault. They told me you could call in and pay a fee and get a payment in on time (it's due today) well that only works if you call in by 4. After that it posts the next day (which is NOT what they tell you when you argue with them about their site being down and you can't pay) well hell it'll post tomorrow on line for free so why would anyone do that. I'll have to take the late hit.

I did get some work done on the big bang story. I'm not afraid of not making word.I worry about getting a story with this berth done on time. yikes.

10730 / 15000 words. 72% done!


So far every school but mine is closed tomorrow but the chief of police on campus did email for us to be careful. We're at level 2. I so don't want to go to this meeting...

It's a marshmallow world in the winter

WHEE. Snow day. The tedious meeting from hell was canceled. I fear knowing how I'll have to make THAT up. I might build me a snow man. I took pictures of my failure to pluck Buddha out of the garden and put him under cover.

I'm sitting here with my honeyed tea and crumpets with tart cherry jam working on my synopsis and what not to get them the heck on out of here.

working on manga reviews.

hope to see if the window stuff i bought will work today to keep energy costs down.

speaking of that, according to the electric company my bank took TWELVE days to send them a check and for them to cash it. If i can prove (which I can) that i paid by the 23'rd they'll remove the late fee. Why in the hell do banks MAIL a check when I use electronic billing (mom's does too) shit, that has to be a losing proposition for the bank. Surely this can all be done electronically or am I missing something.


ETA - snagged from scratchingpost1

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(from 0_mother_0

Son of a....

started cleaning up the kitchen only to discover a mouse has moved in.

And Roy still won't come in the house.

not sure when I'll be able to get out of here to get poison. I do have traps. They've NEVER worked in the past mind you.

I thought I heard something last night.

I hate vermin

this day was odd

Partly relaxing, partly accomplished (I did get the Pompeii story out) and partly frustrating.

I did get to finish disc two of D. Gray-man (the voice actors still don't fit the characters at all)

I tried to build the celebratory snow man as promised for my canceled meeting. However it's powdery snow not good for packing so I have the world's dumpiest snow man (Yes i took pictures but you have to wait until i get to high speed again)

I learned putting plastic on the windows by yourself is hard and I only got half the house done.


I started to clean the kitchen and found that damn mouse evidence.

Talked to Mom. Grandma is being a complete bitch. My mom is going in for her second total knee replacement which means she can't go down there on weekends. Grandma insists that she can and claims she won't let the nurse mom hired into the house. It's a little late to get social workers involved and get this pain in the ass back into a home where she belongs (and admitted she was happy because she had company and yet refuses to returned) since mom's surgery is next week

Mom also said my aunt was put back into the hospital. The pacemaker and med's aren't working. a chunk of her atria are dead so they're going to have to change the leads to bypass the dead heart tissue and it's a very risky operation (that's two relatives with half-dead hearts)

2010 is off to the usual bad start. I did, however, get my loans redeferred.