November 2004 - Posts
So I have been gone and it has not been from playing Halo 2? Last month I had seven credit cards. So I have the national Credit Card debt average. All my other cards are paid off each month but one. The only reason the one card is high is because of home repairs and it was 3.9 % interest very much cheaper than a loan at the bank and Fees.
I think I live for credit card trickery. Everybody who’s has a credit card knows the junk you get with your bill. Don’t over look the very fine printed inserts (Credit Card Trickery Papers) and I just love reading them each month. I am going to ask them to send mine in Braille I may be able to read it better. Not being able to read Braille, I will surely understand it better.
After one card papers slip pass me and increase my fixed to a higher variable. rate, I called all my cards companies up this passing month. I ask what my rate was and if I could get a better one. So I cut up four cards and I could have use that chipper like on TV. So now today with three cards I get a letter of trickery from the one card I own on. So I am on the phone again asking about the added caused if I was late on any other credit bill that I could be charge for default of 29% interest. So now after writing this letter I will be down to two cards. Why do I have to write a letter for op-out of something I did not op-in too? Or was that another slip-up on my part. Cannot chance a slip-up in paying any bill for that would cause an increase to 29% interest.
Am I better off, Sure I don’t have to read all these fine printed Credit Card Trickery Papers? I have only two cards now. Do I feel better? I think so
Got to go and read all the Credit Card Trickery Papers in the new applications for credit cards.
Checking the Mail
JDProud
I ran across this website that has an interactive story and it’s a virtual treasure hunt. If you are good at puzzles and enjoy a good challenge. Then you should check this out. There are prizes but it is unnamed similar to the search for the third Sacred Urn. Dagobert Steinitz in 1969 die, claiming to have hid the three Sacred Urns, each one worth one million dollars, and the first one was found July of this year.
From the website forum I found the following information:
1) The first 5 clues given to Peter
- a ) Learn the language of 'the people of the flint (Mohawk hiking trail)
- b ) Find where it was played (Hastings England, Hastings Michigan)
- c ) Slither like a horse (move like a knight)
- d ) It's the finale that counts (Rxh7+)
- e ) Buy Marlene a birthday gift (unsolved 11/22/1920)
OneFoolToo is my nickname but I am not fool enough to tell you where the forum is. Maybe you can find it from The KEY
Hunting I will go…..
JDProud
I was surprised to read today that MSN Photos web site will be closing on November 18, 2004. Charlotte K Lowrie (managing editor, MSN Photos) inform her readers that that MSN Photos will be merging with MSN Tech & Gadgets. Below is part of her statement.
“Thanks to all the readers who shared this journey with us.
It takes a village
Many people made MSN Photos site features and articles possible. In the past four years, almost all the folks on our Microsoft team left their creative mark on the site. Even as the site merges with Tech & Gadgets, the team will be building exciting software to raise the bar on digital photography and image editing.
In addition to our Microsoft team, contributing writers made MSN Photos articles timely and interesting. Thanks to Peter Burian, Jon Sienkiewicz, Gary Bernstein, Terry Livingstone, Bill Smith, Mike Collins, Tony Chor, Jon Canfield, and Gary Voth for contributing articles.
After Nov. 18, I will be writing books and articles for a variety of publishers and magazines, and I will be taking on more photography assignments. You can check out my lastest projects on my Web site.
From now until Nov. 18, we will continue to feature photography articles. I hope that you'll visit MSN Tech & Gadgets for ongoing photography articles.
Thanks to everyone for supporting a great run for MSN Photos.
Send your comments to askmpc@microsoft.com. ''
Without a Photo can you have a Vision?
JDProud