{"id":2416,"date":"2004-04-14T03:50:14","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/14\/not-again\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:43:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:43:38","slug":"not-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/14\/not-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Not again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2527,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.djwudi.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250925222118\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.djwudi.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 15:45:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 23:19:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:59:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 15:35:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 11:11:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 18:27:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 18:27:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6753,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.interalia.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251009035228\\\/http:\\\/\\\/interalia.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 09:15:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 17:25:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 22:39:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 08:28:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 18:27:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 18:27:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5168,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.hanscomfamily.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.hanscomfamily.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9041,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.speakeasy.net&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260303200911\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.speakeasy.net\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 16:44:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 04:28:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 17:31:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 18:10:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 02:16:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 02:16:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I really, really <em>really<\/em> hate the fact that electronic banking transactions can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few days to post to a bank account.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, I withdrew a little money from my bank account, and saw that I had just a bit over \\$130 left. A little low, but nothing I couldn&#8217;t get by on, and I get paid on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>I just checked my account &#8212; and I&#8217;m quite thoroughly fuckered. A few transactions from early last week that I thought had gone through already just got posted, along with the direct withdrawl I&#8217;d set up to pay my taxes. Unfortunately, the bigger charges went through first (of course), so in addition to dipping under my balance, I also just got hit with a ton of overdraft fees &#8212; and my account now has a balance of <em>negative \\$363.83<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, I get paid Friday. It should be a good paycheck, too &#8212; I&#8217;ll have my full 40 hours for both weeks, plus eleven hours of overtime, plus I just got a 21 cent raise that will kick in on this check. So, come Friday morning when the direct deposit kicks in, I should be back in the black (though it may only be by a few hundred dollars by that point).<\/p>\n<p>On the down side&#8230;well, most obviously, I hate that I goofed up my finances (especially this badly) again. I also have to make it through &#8217;til Friday morning with no cash (tight, but doable, as I&#8217;ve got a credit card that isn&#8217;t quite maxed out). The biggest bummer, though, is that I&#8217;ve been planning on getting my new camera with this paycheck &#8212; and that&#8217;s obviously not going to happen now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important note to Dad, Kirsten, and Phil:<\/strong> My &#8216;net bill is due this week. Obviously, I&#8217;m not going to be able to pay it before Friday morning, so at this point, there is a strong possibility that my &#8216;net connection may go down temporarily sometime in the next couple days. Should that happen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djwudi.com\/\" title=\"DJ W\u00fcdi\">djwudi.com<\/a>, [geek&#42;muffin], <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interalia.org\/\" title=\"Among Other Things\">Among Other Things<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanscomfamily.com\/\" title=\"The Hanscom Family Weblog\">The Hanscom Family Weblog<\/a> will go down. The service interruption shouldn&#8217;t be for more than a day, two at the very most, depending on how soon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakeasy.net\/\" title=\"Speakeasy\">Speakeasy<\/a> decides to give me the smackdown for running late on their bill. You have my sincere apologies &#8212; every time I think I&#8217;m getting back on top of things, something else comes along and proves me wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, things are getting better, and I&#8217;m not nearly as stressed about money matters as I have been in the past. Even with this, I know it&#8217;s just for a couple days, and the upcoming paycheck will resolve the situation. I&#8217;ll just have another couple weeks of tightening my belt to get through. Damn if it isn&#8217;t frustrating, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Feels Like Heaven&#8221; by Fiction Factory from the album <em>Pop and Wave Vol. 2<\/em> (1983, 3:29).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really, really really hate the fact that electronic banking transactions can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few days to post to a bank account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}