What are you doing today?

[Essjay]

You are lucky. Because very few people here actually go into banks any more many branches have closed. Our town used to have branches of 4 different banks, now there are none.
There are ATMs everywhere, we can get cash from our accounts and pay cash and cheques in at post office branches, cash back at supermarkets and business is done by internet banking, mobile apps or phone banking. No customers means banks close branches.

 

[jaylach]

I was playing around with the new bank's on-line banking and found a pleasant surprise. I can link to my old bank through my new bank and transfer funds between the two.

Here, where I live, there are a brick and mortar banks all over the place.

 

[gwand]

On a related topic. I use my credit card to pay for almost all my purchases. Lately more and more stores and restaurants in my area are adding a 3% surcharge to the bill if you pay using a credit card. Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[jaylach]

On a related topic. I use my credit card to pay for almost all my purchases. Lately more and more stores and restaurants in my area are adding a 3% surcharge to the bill if you pay using a credit card. Anyone else experiencing this?

Many government offices and some stores will do that along with many vending machines. It is to recover the fee charged the vendor by the card issuer.

 

[lottabubbles]

On a related topic. I use my credit card to pay for almost all my purchases. Lately more and more stores and restaurants in my area are adding a 3% surcharge to the bill if you pay using a credit card. Anyone else experiencing this?

about 3 years ago we were at our favorite country store to get our sausage and a friend of mine whooped out a credit card for his and the owner added that 3% charge. he asked why and the guy said it's because the card companies are charging him more because of all the money back purchases on the cards now. I just pay cash while it's still legal.

 

[GaryE]

I just had a biopsy done on the top of my head. I've had similar things before and they were uncomfortable, but this one clearly hit the spot. Youch.

It's nothing to worry about, but it isn't my idea of a fun thing to do on a snowy Tuesday morning.

This evening, I have a local aquarist coming over for a look at how I breed fish. He wants to get into fish breeding, and wants me to walk him though why I am set up as I am. I may not tell him most of it is because I'm disorganized and kind of lazy. I have a few hours to come up with sensible, logical reasons for all my improvised set ups...

 

[lottabubbles]

after the coffee perked it was the usual exercise routine. got on the treadmill and was doing the 3mph geezer boogie and had a big sneeze. well, that caused a hop skip and jump and panic reaching for those handle bars. next time I'll be stepping on those side rails.

 

[Alice B]

almost finished with last weekend's pond build. Have one adoption application for miss Carla.

 

[Back in the fold]

I’m rearranging aquariums and getting my christmas tree electrical outlets in some kind of order to add two more aquariums . I have Nothobranchius guentherii coming in the first week of March , Nothobranchius rachovii eggs coming in late March or early April and I still am looking for Epiplatys dageti or Pachypanchax playfarii . The plan is to have all things set up by mid February so that when fish and eggs arrive all I have to do is plop them in . Ten aquariums now .