Also, my work is really f-up right now.

We are no longer allowed to take credit cards over the internet because our site was not secure (I tried to point that out several years ago, but...)

We are no longer allowed to use the official credit card slips that go in that ch-ching machine OR to use the ch-ching machine that swipes cards.

My department is only allowed to use the credit card terminal between 8 am and 8 15 am.

This has lead to the REALLY secure method of me writing the person's number down on a post it note, charging them the next day, and then shredding it. This is rather ridiculous.

My handwriting was quite good until I got to college and had to take notes in class--it went downhill rapidly.

Free electronic recycling locations (mostly - not NY) nationwide on Earth Day 4/19

Wonderful idea! To bad nobody in Illinois is taking TVs, the one electronic thing I have to recycle. Oh, well, I guess it's going into the dumpster this week.

We are no longer allowed to use the official credit card slips that go in that ch-ching machine OR to use the ch-ching machine that swipes cards.

as a side note, I was working with a 17 year old volunteer at the theatre, and I was telling her how to do a credit card transaction, and when I described the ch-ching machine, she had NO idea what I was talking about. We're old, people.

when I described the ch-ching machine, she had NO idea what I was talking about. We're old, people.

Does anyone else remember that cashiers used to have these books to look up and see if your credit card was a bad credit card. I never had to do it, but I remember going to low-end department stores like K-mart with my mom and having her look it up.

I've been pretty self-removed from this whole Mayor of Detroit scandal thing. I've started reading the past few days about the chain of events and what I don't get, and hopefully one of you smart and beautiful people can explain, is why on earth you would send your secret lover sexy text-messages on her work pager? Isn't it pretty common practice (or better word) for all communication on a company owned pager/cell/blackberry to be essentially owned by that company? And if so, why is there an issue of them being illegally obtained?

Does anyone else remember that cashiers used to have these books to look up and see if your credit card was a bad credit card. I never had to do it, but I remember going to low-end department stores like K-mart with my mom and having her look it up.

K-Mart is not low-end!

Sorry. Yeah, I remember those, at places like K-Mart and Shopco....

Does anyone else remember that cashiers used to have these books to look up and see if your credit card was a bad credit card. I never had to do it, but I remember going to low-end department stores like K-mart with my mom and having her look it up.

I had to do that at a drugstore I worked at in high school. God, that was tedious.

My handwriting is still pretty good, but I write longhand in a notebook sometimes instead of typing.

Does anyone else remember that cashiers used to have these books to look up and see if your credit card was a bad credit card.

yes! I totally remember those.

Isn't it pretty common practice (or better word) for all communication on a company owned pager/cell/blackberry to be essentially owned by that company? And if so, why is there an issue of them being illegally obtained?

the government still has to go through channels to get them, i.e. a subpoena or a search warrant. I have to admit that I really haven't been paying attention, so I don't know if that's the issue.

We were talking on one of my other boards about how politicians can't be faithful, and it was better in the good old days when there was a lower divorce rate, and one of my friends made an interesting pont. She was talking about this with her father, who's in his 70's, and he said that the only reason that divorce rates were lower is that people didn't bother to get divorced. A man would just not come home one day, and move to a new town. Getting a divorce was expensive, and the newly single woman often didn't have the money, so didn't bother.

We were talking on one of my other boards about how politicians can't be faithful

Vortex has another board! She's not faithful!

I am *starving*.

So am I. Of course, I'm now realizing that I totally forgot to eat breakfast. I'm not sure how, but I guess my morning gronk was more powerful than I thought.