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Monday, August 16, 2004

 
8:50 PM: birthday boy blue [#] [0]

friday was the 13th and i didn't even notice. we unknowingly chose to flaunt fate by taking leopoldo to the coast: to cannon beach & seaside and bits in between. alas, i was carsick a great deal of the time, so i slept and was quietly concentrating while sven & leopoldo talked, and when we went to the tillamook cheese factory, i couldn't even get an ice cream cone. meh. it turns out both sven & i suck at throwing and catching the air disk (which i like quite a bit because you can catch it by looping it on your arm), belying the first-place award i won for that skill in the first grade.

better money news: i called mbna, who lowered my rate from 26% to 19%, which, while not great, is a heck of a lot better than 26%. i feel a little better now. i'd still be happy to pay this puppy off, though. :) and seeger wants me to watch his cats while he's gone on short notice.

and i opened a washington mutual account because in 8 weeks they'll deposit $100 in it just because i'm a new customer. (this is about to turn into its own paragraph rant: my only irritation about this is that in case of disputes they require you to consent to mandatory arbitration in lieu of trial, which is something i hate. if you want to make arbitration a first step, great. if it's my only step, then that feels downright illegal. i hate being asked to sign away my rights. the woman who opened the account for me, who probably wasn't any older than i am, didn't know anything about it and said we couldn't change it. grrrrr. i've actually had people take it out of contracts before i sign them -- trixie, for example -- but this woman just seemed unable to do anything other than what the computer told her. grrrrrrr. so i signed because i need the $100. but i might close it after that. a pity.)