Today I will go to Half Moon Bay and visit everyone who flew in for Dad's memorial tomorrow. I still feel very calm and very sad. Perhaps I'll lose my shit at Thanksgiving remembering how glad I was to see him last year after his adventure with bowel obstruction in Montana.
Scam alert: I received a call from the Ascension Group looking for "the responsible party" about his estate. Apparently these are carrion vultures trying to get survivors to pay bills they have no need to pay. As if Dad left debt instead of savings. Good thing my sister and stepmom are savvy enough to check them out and decline to speak to them. So FYI in case anyone else has to deal with this.
No YOU woke up to identity theft and fraudulent accounts.
Apparently I'm not allowed to go more than a week or so without an anxiety attack.
Just tried to put a fraud alert on my credit report with Equifax and I could not pass their questions to verify my identity. JFC!!!!!!
Oh no, msbelle! What an enormous PITA.
Ugh. I'm glad this happened AFTER you bought your house, though!
It looks like the one thing I did yesterday before I found out all our tools were messed up was wrong, and by my mistake not the tools. I can't figure out how exactly what I think I did wrong gave the results I now have, but I think I can fix it without getting to the bottom of that....
Sorry Dana, health insurance issues sucks. Sorry, msbelle, dealing with fraud sucks.
With the news, I'm trying not to keep peeking at Twitter and keep working on parsing strings into time.
Perl's Date::Parse module is seriously one of the most versatile pieces of code I've ever come across. It can deal with pretty much any unambiguous date or time string you throw at it. It just works.
msbelle - my experience is that once you buy/refinance a house, all kinds of scams and problems show up. The mortgage lenders cheerfully sell you information to anyone who asks. Good luck dealing with them.
Bennett, I bought for cash, no mortgage though. This may be from a prelim application just to get preapproval numbers for a mortgage. That or the Capital One data breach or one of the other hundred data breaches in the last few years.
Fuckers.
