Bumbling Bemused Blogger Begins

Virtually Zero Balances

Went to bed at 3 AM after extensive Internet trolling, woke up at 7 am, feeling troll-like. Initial task on my procrastinator's list....pay bills. Logged into my banking site, which told me I had a "zero" balance in both my checking and savings account. Since I am now officially unemployed (ok, ok, doing freelance work, but the gig hasn't begun yet and $'s from that are probably at least a month away) I prayed my banking site wasn't colluding with a non-benevolent universe, thunking me on the head with yet another one of those "life lessons" that usually involve painful scenarios with money/relationships/jobs (oftentimes simultaneously) that 1720 1/4 iterations later, I'm still in an endless loop about.

I quickly scanned all withdrawals.....no, no nefarious hacker had zipped away my puny dollars -- although some expenditures looked incomprehensible in retrospect, each one definitely belonged to me (did I really need that whatever it was from that obscure catalog?) Next step -- calling the automated banking service. Yes, indeedy, I DID have some dollars (though leaning now towards 3 figures rather than 4) and so enough to pay this round of utility bills.

So even though no live person in sight, on site (with the exception of myself, yes, I AM alive this morning, although definitely not at "warp speed" capacity) I figured out that something is wrong with the "total balance" function on the website, and/or something went wrong with their update and some more techie souls are scrabbling to fix "what went wrong". They are probably NOT going to have a good day.

As for me...now that I've both billed and blogged for the day, back to bed for a short nap before tackling item #2 on my list....making a business card for my idea-rich, currently dollar poor freelance business.