Yay! The Office is back!
Quick review (sorry, I don’t feel like doing those thorough reviews anymore) to come.
- Here’s a bit of background about my Bank of America checking account. I use it only for eBay transactions. Money from eBay sales go to my eBay-specific PayPal account, which gets transferred to my BofA checking account, which then goes to ING Direct, which then goes to my WaMu/Chase checking account.
(I’m gonna have to adapt to calling my checking account a Chase checking account.
(Tangent: I know it’s only September, but that stupid Chase Sapphire commercial might already have won the Worst Commercial of the Year award. It only took two viewings to already assign this commercial “This is Myyyyyyyyyy Country” status: as soon as the commericial airs, I’m reaching for the remote to hit the Mute button.))
Well, I hadn’t sold anything on eBay lately, and therefore, I hadn’t had any activity on that account for about three months. I then sold a few things, transferred the money from PayPal to my BofA account, and then immediately transferred the money to my ING account.
(Oh by the way, they charged me an inactivity fee of $8.95, and it turns out they should have been charging me this for the last three months. Then again, when I signed up for the account, I was told that the account was completely fee-free. Apparently fee-free means free of fees until they deem it necessary to charge fees.
EDIT: I do recall BofA charging me a $5.xx inactivity fee months prior too. Fortunately, I got that waived by a phone CSR, and that’s when I found out what BofA’s definition of “fee-free” really is.)
Anyway, you could imagine my surprise when, about a week later, I got a letter in the mail saying that my account could be deemed “abandoned” because of inactivity. Three months of inactivity = possibly abandoned?, I thought to myself. I then concluded that BofA probably sent the letter before my most recent transaction, so I decided to ignore the letter. That’s when the listed account balance caught my attention; it was the balance on the account AFTER the PayPal transfer!
Apparently, one week of inactivity is enough for BofA to think that the account could be abandoned, not three months as I initially thought.
- For some reason, I bought some basketball cards on eBay about a month ago.
One of my items was sent a week late, because the seller was out of town. I wasn’t notified of this, until after the seller shipped out the item.
One of my items was sent to another buyer. I wasn’t notified of this until a week later, when I asked the seller about the whereabouts of my item.
These two transactions paled in comparison to the third transaction I had. Let’s just say that if either of the first two transactions was like getting a root canal, the third was like getting each and every one of your teeth pulled out.
Yup, that bad.
- For the first time in years, I did not draft a Fantasy Football team prior to the start of the season.
The last part of that sentence is important; I drafted a couple teams early last Thursday, hoping to finish before the start of the Thursday night Steelers-Titans game. Unfortunately, even though both drafts ended well before the 5:30PM start time of the game, both leagues were set to start scoring with the Week 2 games.
Oh well. Here’s team 1, in a “competitive” league. I actually hated my second and third picks—I really wanted to go WR-RB with those two picks, but was ‘forced’ to take Barber and Manning in that spot—but absolutely hate my WR picks. And please don’t ask me why I like to pick DSTs so early.
Here’s team 2. I really hated the RB options between picks 26 and 35, so I decided to go WR heavy. Knowing that I might have to rely on McFadden, Jones, or waiver wire pickups as my RB2 is gonna keep me up at night, for sure, and Matt Schaub isn’t exactly impressing me at the moment.
Ahhhhhhhhh…it’s good to have (Fantasy) Football back!
- Speaking of things that are good to have back, I was in tears sixty seconds into tonight’s premiere of The Office.
(No joke. And who didn’t realize that that refrigerator box was probably empty?)
As premieres go, I thought it was decent. I loved how most (all?) of Michael’s fake rumors turned out true, especially Kelly’s eating disorder and Pam’s pregnancy. I’m so glad the show decided not to devote several episodes to Jim and Pam trying to hide their little secret.
(Free at last! Free at last!)
After watching the premiere, and thinking over past episodes, one has to wonder…is Andy Bernard really gay? Think about it; how many times did we see Andy show affection towards Angela? I’m tempted to re-watch “Business Trip” just to see if the writers planted seeds towards ‘outing’ Andy. Then again, maybe I’m just reading too far between the lines.
The summer interns didn’t detract from the episode—that bit at the end was pretty amusing, and the scene with them and Dwight was epic—but overall, I was pretty disappointed. Add to that the fact that this was the season premiere, and I can’t say I’m too pleased.
(Come on, NBC! You couldn’t give The Office another one-hour premiere?)
Until next time.
Tags: abandoned, bank of america, checking account, fees, The Office by Peter
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