Well, I whined on Facebook too, and our mortgage broker (who wrote the mortgage in question, though she works at a small local bank which sold the mortgage upstream to USBank) said to email her and she'd see what she could do. Given that she was awesome through our initial mortgage and a refinance for better rates, I am feeling hopeful. Benefits of a small town. And this is the mortgage on our house in Georgia, which is for sale, so I am especially worried that nothing get screwed up that might be a problem for a sale.

Maria, thank goodness.

Flea, I have no love for bank shenanigans, and I hope you can get them straightened out soon.

Allyson, so impressed with your guitar progress.

Sarameg, crap, I'm sorry about the eye.

DST is killing me too. And seems to have left me without any feck.

And thanks, everybody. I remain in awe of what people here know about. If Jenny can't help, OCC it is.

(Michael is looking at videos of kittens. True friends, and kittens, What the internet was made for.)

All three members of my household are eating Wheat Thins for dinner. Only one of us finds that depressing.

Nilly!

Ouch, sarameg. I have a friend that keeps happening to. Once they put a "bandage" contact on it, which she said made it feel better.

Here is a sneakier approach, flea. This is what some internet searches yielded:

P.W. (Bill) Parker is chief credit officer of US Bancorp. His e-mail seems to be either p.w.parker@usbank.com or pw.parker@usbank.com. The phone number listed on his SEC filing is 612-303-4644 or you can ask for him at the corporate main number, 651-466-3000.

The odds are he won't talk to you, but someone in his office will transfer you, so the person who gets the call will be getting a call referred from the VP's office.

I had garlic bread and homemade chicken vegetable soup for dinner while I watched MST3K. Then I got up and washed the dishes, swept the floor, and cleaned the bathroom. Now I'm drinking wine and finishing a Nerdist podcast before I go to bed.

I wanted garlic bread all day today. Enough to where I almost walked to the little general store to get some sourdough, when I remembered that I also didn't have garlic or butter. This whole no-grocering-post-vacation thing sucks.

I made TJ's salmon burgers with lots of garlic and butter and lemon. We had them on toasted English muffins with remoulade and tomato - YUM!

Anyway: garlic, lemon and butter 4EVAH!

oh, liese,I'm sorry. If you were closer, I'd give you both butter and garlic (and shredded asiago to go on top).

We got fennel in our farm box. I roasted a pork tenderloin with onion and fennel with an apricot glaze. NOM.

Thai delivery. I accidentally ordered something with crispy noodles. The chicken curry part of it is tasty, but no crispy for me. Hmmph.

I will have to drown my tears in some French vanilla ice cream.

Looks like the gawker network is moving over to requiring a Twitter, FB, or Google account before you can post there, even for their legacy accounts. I have a Google account already dedicated to that persona, so it's no big for me, but the principle does rankle. Even now, when it looks like you need FB or Twitter to sign up, there is a loophole. Bye bye loophole.

At the same time, Denton says he's trying to encourage driveby commenters, so he can get celebs posting anon and shit. I haven't seen any explanations for how he intends to reconsile those urges. But good luck with that, Nick. You seem determined to do things a crazily loyal userbase hates. *So* determined. They/we do have a breaking point.

Watching Machete after a fair chunk of Catwoman. Deliberate OTT vs. just plain stinker.