Huh. When I traveled internationally, money got transferred to my US account with no problem. In terms of not being able to open a US account: Is there someone with a US account you know and trust one hell of a lot? Transfer the money to the US account and have the US account buy travelers checks or precharged debit cards made out to you. (The debit cards will cost you a higher percent.) Once you have the account i don't know how to persuade your bank to make the transfer, but it should be doable.
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
And on a seperate note Yay for Scrappy's Mom. Hope the surgery goes super well.
What I just heard my boss say: "Sandra Bullock is going to be here tomorrow from 2:30 to 4."
What she actually said: "Sandra Boynton is going to be here tomorrow from 2:30 to 4."
The funny thing is that I'm probably more interested in/excited about meeting Sandra Boynton than Sandra Bullock. (I mean, really, what would I have to talk about with Sandra Bullock?)
babies
being America's Sweetheart
Sandra Boynton! That would be fun.
It appears to be super hard to do so from the UK to here.
Yes, I met some nice British people in a bank over the summer who were having all kinds of issues.
Nora, I expect every country is different, but I have never had much of an issue transferring money. When I lived in Brazil, I just wrote a check to a company and they cashed it. Also, companies like Western Union or Moneygram do it often. I have been paid several times by Moneygram when my client's family is overseas.
Nora, I'd think the difficulty might depend on who's transferring the money, etc. Are you anticipating getting it directly from the tenant, or would they give his dad a check and he'd need to send it, or...?
Sandra Boynton is way more fun and of higher interest to me personally than Sandra Bullock.
Holy hell. I'm swamped. Can someone make a temporary clone of me to do all my scut work?
That's great news, Scrappy!
Great news and a welcome relief, Scrappy!
Also enjoying the typical Monday here. The substantial amount of work an editor promised me would be ready to assign this morning since it's due finished by end of Wednesday? Not here and only trickling in throughout the day in tiny drops. Oh, and one of the three days I'd slated a subcontractor to work on it this week is apparently a national holiday in India.