April Sours... (Monthly Mini-Rants)

Definitely very mini:

I inherited a share in some useless property in a failed development. I’m the person who pays the (trivial) semi-annual property taxes on Dad’s little slice of paradise. Not.

My reminder comes up today to hit their website and pay their danegeld via credit card. Trying to be all efficient and shit I jump right on that ehre pre-dawn before even starting to Dope; imagine being so task-oriented!

So of course the website is failing. Do the captcha, pick your property out of the search, put the tax bill in your cart, click buy, acknowledge their 3rd party fees, aknowledge leaving their site for the payment site, fill in your CC and mailing details, click [pay]. ERROR Will Robinson ERROR. transaction failed.

Try entire rigmarole again. ERROR Will Robinson ERROR. Duplicate transaction.

I bet I’m now locked out of paying them online due to the jammed half-transaction of the first failed attempt. At least until tomorrow and maybe forever. Oh bother.