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THE FLYING BLACK CHOCOBO SHALL CARRY THE BELIEVERS OF EORZEA TO HIGHER ALTITUDES OF GREATNESS WITH THE NEW CALAMITY!

Good drops today.

Good news today.

On Saturday I posted something about 60 bucks being taken out of my account from a series of flash chip transactions - my bank decided to reverse the charges, and reimbursed me today.

Also, won 3,600 MGP.

Scratch card was weird. Had a 2, 1, and 5 down the middle, 3 in the bottom right corner. So I went with a full unscratched line, and got the highest prize available to me.

I scratched a 3 in one corner and 1 in the other with my last two scratches, so went for that row.
*** 9 in the middle. >:I

Do banks not do this often in Canada/the US? Over here they call you immediately if there's suspicious activity (like trying to buy something to test if the card is working, they tried to buy something for 0 with mine or something lol) :0 If anything is taken they just reimburse it right away

Guessing banks are a bit more annoying to deal with over there?

I just always aim for the 123 if it's a possibility, even if I don't have any scratched in the row if I don't have a 1 2 or 3 unscratched yet.

Same.

Reminded me to do my mini. 10,000! :D

Really depends on the bank. Most are willing to do it, but they have to go through their Fraud Prevention system before anything gets reimbursed. However, my card was lost/taken less than an hour after using the ATM (which does require a pin number entry), so it wasn't taken from that, and the problem was that the money was taken before daily banking business hours, so they couldn't call me for suspicious activity.

There's supposedly a lot more red tape with international banks (TD Canada/Ameritrade is Canada/US based), than localized banking institutions. And nothing could really be done until last Monday, so it's not like it wasn't dealt with in a reasonable time frame.

It's just a bit of good news to have the money back, when there wasn't much hope of it coming through.

So much this: But that wasn't a possibility today, so I went with the next best thing based on the numbers I had.

I see

When they tried to use my card it was in the afternoon so the bank noticed it and called me to ask if I was trying to purchase something and since I wasn't they asked if I wanted to cancel my card (obviously) and then reversed the charges since my last use and sent me a new one (which took about a week) :0 I like my bank lol

Roommate texted me.

Trying to figure out wtf this means.

You didn't flush, that's his way of telling you.

I got a new card immediately since I went directly to the bank as soon as it opened, hoping someone had turned it in. No one had, I checked my account activity, and had a new card in less than 5 minutes.

I'd rather have them send me the card so I don't have to wait in line and fill crap out lol >.>

I didn't fill ***out. I just walked in, presented my ID, said I needed a new card, and boom. All I had to do was activate it.

/clap

/shudder

Hope they at least pay well for that.

Apparently I'm supposed to have understood that it meant I was to go into his bathroom and find his cologne, which I didn't even knew he owned, and be ready to drop it down to him from our 2nd story apartment... because it's so hard to walk for an extra 20 seconds from the parking lot and up the stairs to reapply his "sexy smell" that apparently wore off...

*slams head on desk*

Lucas would be his friend not spath, so if anything his friend didn't flush or is about to smother him with his arm pits/crotch/something

Please tell me it wasn't Axe.

Fall asleep so much in my chair. *yawn*

I saw this temper pedic officr chair at Staples.. Sat in it.. {angels singing} So good.

Ugh. People who think that because you can cook at home for 1 person, that it's just as easy to cook in a commercial/restaurant setting - which is much more demanding physically, particularly for those with previous and existing injuries.

No, it was one of those fancy glass bottle dealies. No idea what it actually was. I'll admit I kinda hoped it would shatter on the pavement when I dropped it. :x

There's a lot of things people don't know about working in a commercial/restaurant kitchen setting.

It can get hot, very hot, especially in the dish pit, and on the grill/broiler.

The dish pit is the easiest place in the kitchen to work, but very labor intensive. I've seen people quit after a few days because it was too hard for them, that it was beneath them, etc. - Here's the deal - The reason most people are sent to the dish pit in a kitchen to start their training at a restaurant, is to see if they can handle the physical demands of the setting they are in. Lifting heavy pots and pans, dishes, glassware, etc. as well as twisting and turning in a hot, humid section of the building for hours a day. Not a lot of skill involved, but as I said, physically demanding. Also a good workout for the lazy.

The other positions are flexible - meaning that they have to know much more, and be far more aware because of sharp object such as knives, sanitation, cross contamination, proper cooking times and methods, heavy lifting, organization, speed, and accuracy. So it takes a reasonable amount of skill to do it rather well. So once you've proven you can handle the physical demands by being the dish ***, then you can move up to the better stuff.