September FOCUS Team Chattery (Page 4)

TriAya - 2010-09-12 10:17 AM
*sniff* I'm sure Paul is the very best kind of insane
My fave times to run here are 11:30 to 3 in the morning. 'Cause it's actually cool then. The night sky is amazing too.

pdbman - 2010-09-11 8:50 PM I guess only half a page of posts is OK for today since it is a weekend and people are busy.  We'll have to step up our posting though once Monday rolls back around. A page a day. That's all we ask.

pdbman - 2010-09-14 3:29 AM I just got a call from the cardiologist's office. They had a cancellation so I will be able to see him tomorrow morning. Here's hoping the find out what happened without finding anything wrong.

QueenZipp - 2010-09-14 11:55 PM I swam today.
Did I mention how much I am looking forward to doing something other than swim lately?

pdbman - 2010-09-15 1:23 AM Alrighty.  Good news from the cardiologist. No problems with the heart. Arteries are totally clear. Not even any narrowing. Cholesterol low. Blood pressure good. Pulse good. He said its definitely not the heart that caused the debilitating pain in my chest, neck and jaw. While that is good news, it doesn't help me know what the problem was/is.

pdbman - 2010-09-15 1:47 AM [rant]
I just had an interesting experience. I'm getting a little frustrated with my current bank so I thought I would stop by a local credit union to open an account. Just a basic account, nothing fancy. No loans or anything. They wanted to pull a credit report on me and my wife to open a basic savings account. Excuse me? I've worked with credit unions all over the country. I helped write software for credit unions. I've trained credit union people, from the president right on down to the tellers and I've never heard such BS in my life. He said its because credit unions are based on credit. Again a bunch of BS. Credit unions were started about 100 years ago by people who couldn't get loans from banks. They pooled their money together and lent it to each other. In the good old days of credit unions, they didn't even care what your credit was like outside of the credit union. If you had good credit with them, they didn't care what your credit was like with other institutions, but those days are gone. Anyway. I had enough BS and decided I would open my account somewhere else. I called around a few other places and no one else requires a credit report just to open an account.

It just makes me even more sad that Chase came into town and bought out my old bank. I've had that account for 23 years. I used to be able to go in and they knew me by name. The employees would say hi to me when I would see them around town. I could hand them a check and they would know what I wanted to do with it, cash it, deposit it, make a payment, and they knew how I liked my cash. I was spoiled. Now I can't stand to go in the place. All the old friends are gone and the new people don't care. They can't even handle a simple payment without screwing it up. I gave them time to bring everyone up to speed but two years after the merge I'm still having problems so I'm outta there. 

Now all I have to do is find a decent place that is friendly and doesn't charge a ton of fees just to have an account. Sorry to submit you to my rants. I'm finished now.
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TriAya - 2010-09-14 12:18 PM

Just about every post so far, but why stop when you're on a roll?

Well done on the swimmie!