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Cake day: July 28th, 2023

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  • Not only is “Googling” one of my most important job skills, now that I’m doing professional services, my entire job basically consist of “Learn product ${FOO} faster than the customer’s employees can.” Which of course primarily consists of knowing what to search for, how to find it, and how to interpret and use what I find.



  • It has ALWAYS been too expensive for the vast majority of Americans to rent their own place, for ALL the generations.

    My greatest/silent generation grandparents never had their own places.

    My boomer parents never rented their own place solo.

    My Gen-X ass has only rented my own place for 1 brief 6month period in a VERY low cost of living area, and then again for a couple years after a divorce at which time I was 20years into a very high paying career, so I don’t think it’s a terribly valid example for the majority of Americans.

    I’m not saying housing costs aren’t too high, they absolutely are! But this is nothing new. And frankly it’s annoying to keep seeing it posted and harped on constantly as I see it as a distraction from real issues that need to be addressed in the areas of housing costs, pay and healthcare costs that need to be fixed.


  • Wells Fargo.

    The short version is, they forced me to close my savings/checking account due to $32 in insufficient funds that was reported to Chex Systems by my former bank, and told me that I could reopen them once the report was cleared.

    I got the report cleared with proof that it was due to a third party (AOL - who admitted it and got the report removed) that made unauthorized charges to an account I had closed.

    When I went back to get my accounts reopened, the manager spoke me like I was the scum of the earth for ever having been reported, even though it wasn’t my fault and I had proof. She told me that I couldn’t open an account at Wells Fargo for 7 years, and said I could come back after that and open accounts.

    As if I would ever go near Wells Fargo again after treating me like that over a $32 report that I had proven wasn’t my fault.