Hide your small animals

I can drive again. And bless them, Zipcar didn't blink at my offering of a temporary license number, and I had no problems re-activating my account and reserving a car to visit the parents and Ricky over Xmas.

I haven't driven in nearly 11 months! I should get some practice in before hitting the highways again, I suppose...

In retrospect I wish I had shaved this morning; the photograph looks like a disheveled, grinning Hanna-Barbera cartoon man with jaw shadow. I went with a mellow closed-mouth smile, not a psycho-toothy grin, but I kind of wish I did now.

They took $90 from me, which was approx. twice as much as I was expecting to pay. What can you do, though? It's the state.

Money calm

NetBank is so far being much less bastardly about QuickPost follow-through then their website suggests. Someone is there is looking into the matter for me. Really I should have had more faith in them; in three years I've yet to have an unpleasant customer-service experience with this bank. Not to say they're off the hook yet...

Meanwhile, I had another check on my desk, so I made my first-ever via-ATM deposit yesterday. First I had to find out where the NetBank-deposit-friendly ATMs around Boston are. One of em happens to be a block away from ITA... how about that. (None are otherwise anywhere near my house.) And the money seems to have actually posted, so that solves my rent woes. (I gave Ms. V her check yesterday anyway, figuring that the issue'd get solved one way or another by the time it cleared.)