We should just give in and rename it the "Innernet."

[dolari]

Get a credit card, and use it and suddenly you're completely innundated with offers. I'm half tempted to apply for every last one of them, max them out with traveler's checks, and fund my SRS on my the death of my credit rating. However I've been dutifully shredding them all knowing full well I can barely afford a second one.

Ut's amazing the amounts of offers I've gotten, and they ways they get you to think you've got a card (I've got so many "THIS COULD BE YOURS!" cards I'm thinking of making a collection). I have one card, it's a $200 limit, and I'm doing fine with that. But now - I got an offer I'd been waiting for.

My bank. The bank that has seen every single overdraft I've made (and been responsible for more than a few of them through dodgy transaction sequencing) has made the mistake of offering me a card. I applied for it and will use both the cards to be emergency money for when I go to Seattle. Once I'm settled into Seattle - I'll kill my non-bank card and keep my bank card.

Or keep it and fund my SRS with it, one of the two......

Comments

[chaoticset.livejournal.com]

To myself, I think that sounds like one of the finest ideas ever.

More at eleven.

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

One of my friends did exactly that. Her rationale being "What are they gonna do, repo it?" She did eventually pay it all off, though.

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Wait and see what goes down -- like interest rates.

No more overdrafts, neh?

A.

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

>No more overdrafts, neh?

Yeah. Right.

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't borrow any money for mine, though I thought about it. And a bit more than half of the cost came in as gifts, which to this day I all rather and thought-provoking in a rather nice way.

And, in my opinion, that is how the world should be made to work. If I have any say about how the world works, it ruddy well will work that way.

Nice drawing of the Peace Arch, by the bye. Is there graffiti on the Yankee side too, or just stenciled pictures of maple-leafs surrounding "Welcome to Canada. Buy stuff. Thank you."?

A.
stranded in Toronto because the planes are all frozen in place, who knows why? It was like this last year, too....

Sharing is for communists.

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

>And a bit more than half of the cost came in as gifts, which to this
>day I all rather and thought-provoking in a rather nice way. And, in
>my opinion, that is how the world should be made to work. If I have
>any say about how the world works, it ruddy well will work that way.

I'm a Marxist at heart. I can draw. Here, have some comics. I need a pair of shoes, can I have that one? Need a computer fixed? Sure, I'll do it. Can I have that bottle of milk, please? Thank you!

Alas, human greed'll never let it work.

Sharing is for communists.

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

>And a bit more than half of the cost came in as gifts, which to this
>day I all rather and thought-provoking in a rather nice way. And, in
>my opinion, that is how the world should be made to work. If I have
>any say about how the world works, it ruddy well will work that way.

I'm a Marxist at heart. I can draw. Here, have some comics. I need a pair of shoes, can I have that one? Need a computer fixed? Sure, I'll do it. Can I have that bottle of milk, please? Thank you!

Alas, human greed'll never let it work.

>Nice drawing of the Peace Arch, by the bye. Is there graffiti on the Yankee
>side too, or just stenciled pictures of maple-leafs surrounding "Welcome to
>Canada. Buy stuff. Thank you."?

That WAS the Yankee-side. The US side has a placard that says "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED." :)

Re: Sharing is for communists.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, the old saying has it: "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs."

I know full well that the entire world does not work like that, but some parts that I care about do.