I had a suspicious spending alert call from my bank a few months ago. It was right after I found out that I'd be getting a little money back from my tax returns, rather than having to pay out. And my purchases were rather anomalous, especially the tv.

I just had to change my Amex card because someone tried to make a $10 and $20 charge online. Both charges had been denied because they seemed "unusual." The person I spoke with said it might be something as simple as the security code was requested on the first and they didn't have it, and so the second attempt was automatically denied.

Our company account number was fraudulently used for a while. It was all very small purchases, though, around fifty bucks apiece. So the cc company didn't notice.

But I was pretty sure that my nonprofit company that teaches music to Navajo and Apache kids in Arizona wasn't buying clothes online from a store in Berlin. And if it is, I would like them, please.

The bank initially refunded the money, but then pursued it with the company, so the bank recharged the amounts and the company refunded them. Which fouled up my accounts until I figured out what they'd done, and I feel badly because the company ate the fraud, which I'm pretty sure had nothing to do with it.

My boss just gave me a document with some revisions, and she had "deleted" a lot with track changed on. So I was going through hitting "accept change" and the words were still there.

Turns out that she had put a strikethrough manually through each word with formatting because she wanted me to be able to see it. BUT THAT IS WHAT TRACK CHANGES DOES!!!! So I just deleted all the strikethroughs and hit accept all changes.

I just tried to show her, and she does not get it.

Oh, Sophia. Oh.

I have so been there. You poor thing.

Turns out that she had put a strikethrough manually through each word with formatting because she wanted me to be able to see it. BUT THAT IS WHAT TRACK CHANGES DOES!!!! So I just deleted all the strikethroughs and hit accept all changes.

Oh, god, people have done this on docs I'm responsible for before too. I'm so sorry.

food report from yesterday

finished the V-8, a jar of jelly, and the last box of tea. More hot sauce got used, so we are down to about half a bottle.

heh ... I recently had a long discussion with someone I was preparing a blast email for - she was saying she wanted things to appear in a specific way, in a specific place, using what she saw on her screen as the model. I tried to explain that unless the recipient had exactly the same system with the exact settings chances were they'd see it differently and that I was trying to set it up to be acceptable for everyone.

yeah, that went over well

And it makes sense that if you travel on the card and then spend money at your destination, then they know.

But would they know where you're going? My flights just show up as SOUTHWEST on my statement. I bought my flight for San Diego next month months ago, but Chase doesn't know where and when I'll be in July.

I tried to explain that unless the recipient had exactly the same system with the exact settings chances were they'd see it differently and that I was trying to set it up to be acceptable for everyone.

Try explaining that about HTML 12 years ago. Then, in my absence, my boss went with an all Flash site and blew up at me when I explained the site wasn't bookmarkable or searchable. Oh, the joys of working at a technology company run by technophobes.