Bad Offer

Just because something is legal, doesn't make it right.

Look at this actual credit card offer from First Premier Bank in Sioux Falls, SD. Not only does it charge a 36% APR, but the first annual fee is $175. After that, the annual fee is $49 plus an annual servicing fee of $174. And that's only if your account is in good standing. Sickening.

Magic Deposits

My bank does not have a bricks and mortor building in my state. Most of my money gets into my account via direct deposit, which is fine, but for the occasional paper check, I had to deposit them via snail mail. Now, I can simply take a picture of the front and back of the check with my iPhone to deposit a check. I'm sure the people who pine for days of yore will resist this with all their might, butI find it way cool. I've used it a couple times and it worked great. Not that there's much call for depositing actual checks these days.

Beebo Brinker Chronicles

At my friend Todd's urging, I stopped in to the Stoner theater Sunday afternoon to see the final performance of The Beebo Brinker Chronicles. He did his usual fine job as Jack, and Makha Mthembu cracked me up in every scene as Marcie. My favorite line: "Stick out your tongue; I want to feel 12 again!"

Based on the groundbreaking, award-winning pulp novels of the 50s and 60s, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles follows the lives and loves of friends in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village. Beth and Laura, secret lovers in college, still pine for each other. Before they can reunite, they find themselves entangled in a web spun by Beebo Brinker, a butch denizen of the underground bar scene. The play, originally produced by Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, celebrates the era when “the love that dares not speak its name” began breaking the old rules.

Tilt

 

Discovered my new dining room table is also a tilt-top after I got it home which made it quite a bargain. Especially since it came with three original leaves. What do you think of the Heywood Wakefield hutch?