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We have a checking account with online bill pay. As such, since we have this great convenience of having this type of account, we don’t have physical checks. We don’t need them. We don’t buy things with checks. We use credit cards, and pay the bills off each month. We have check cards. We pay over the internet. But we don’t need checks.

However, it seems that all of the companies that make use of online bill pay require you to send them a voided check in order to get you started. Don’t they understand that you don’t need to have checks? I’m perfectly capable of writing down the account and routing numbers on a piece of paper. Apparently, I’m the exception.

C’mon stupid companies - let me register without having to send you a voided check.

Last week, the boss-man sent me to the Jefferson County Tax Sale. My job was to bid on specific properties. I was the winner of three different properties.

Today the boss-man and I were in Jefferson County so we decided to take a closer look at two of these properties. One of the properties is an adult bookstore. The boss-man was a little excited about having the tax deed to the adult bookstore. If he’s lucky in a year, he’ll be the proud owner of his very own adult bookstore.

As I’m scarfing down my oatmeal this morning, my cell phone rings. It’s my boss, he hasn’t left yet. The boss-man was suppose to pick me up about the time he called 7:15. Great, I’ll have time to finish my breakfast and read the paper before he shows up. However, boss-man has his own time schedule…if he says he’ll pick you up at 7:00, it’s more like 7:15/7:20. This is a tad bit annoying especially since I could have lifted weights while I was at the gym this morning but at least I made it to the gym this morning.
This time was better than the last time; he said he would pick me up at 6:00, I was ready at 5:45, and then he didn’t show up ’til 6:25.

I was listenign toa Podcast the other night with a girl who was talking about hwo she plays some online game (World of Warcraft or something like that) a lot. She said he has a leve l 6 0 character, which must be pretty advanced. The announcer talked about how he had a level 11 character, and that’s after 3 months of pretty intense playing.

Which means that htis girl spends a LOT of time playing this game.

But it makes me wonder. How does anyone ahve that much time? I mean, if you didn’t work I could understand it. But don’t most people work? The only thing I can figure is that they spend 5pm-midnight playing, and all weekend. If that’s the case, how do the other things in life - dishes, shopping, etc - get done? I mean, after I got done with classes I thought I’d have all sorts of free time, but it sure doesn’t seem like it.

What gives? What am I missing here?

TFGF (which is short for “The First GirlFriend” for all you newcomers) used to work at Baskin Robbins. That was a sweet sweet deal for a young high school chap like myself, because, as I’m sure you can guess, it meant free Ice Cream.

Actually, not free. See, the smart owners of BR had a video camera over the cash register - and they *warned* their employees that they could get in trouble for giving out free ice cream. Thus, it was important to always make a transaction when doling out ice cream.

So, as you can guess, I always opted for some big ass concoction of ice cream/chocolate/peanut butter goop/whipped cream and always had her ring it up as the least expensive item on the menu. What was the least expensive item?

.25 for an ice cream cone.

Just the cone. No ice cream.

Now, pray tell, how many people go into BR and buy just a cone? Would that not be a dead give away that someone is doling out almost free ice cream?

Oh well, I didn’t care. I bought a shitton of 25 cent jobbers all throughout high school. It was awesome.

Side note: at some point, they raised the transaction cost to $0.35. Holy cow, that was almost a 50% increase in price.

Nevertheless, I paid for it.