I don’t want to crow, but we got our corvid shots this morning. (Yeah, Mrs. L.A. didn’t like the joke either.)
So we’re protected from COVID and flu now. When we go on our cruise, we’ll probably catch norovirus. 
It’s happened to us multiple times, and always on the same card. Someone once tried to put $5,000 on it for some Nigerian church donation. 
I’m pretty sure that someone internal is selling CC information. After the last time, that replacement card sits unused on a shelf.
Ouch & Damn! That’s just mean. Bastards.
For many CCs, the cards are made & programmed at a central facility; I’d be surprised if the branch could do that. But, what you can do is ask them to FedEx the card to you, which includes running it off ASAP on a special priority line. Getting it in a couple days is much better than a couple weeks. Plead the sob story that as a loyal CU customer it’s the only credit card you have. Might work. Good luck.
Being credit card-less while traveling is a crisis. So when I was traveling heavily I always carried two. The other account was rarely used, maybe once a year to keep it alive. It didn’t need a very large credit limit. After this flail is over you might consider getting one from some other issuer, or even a second one from the same CU; they can probably do that. It can live in your desk or dresser until needed.
I built up my version of that list the hard way after my main card was compromised a few times ago. A mild PITA to keep up to date, but pure gold when you / I need it. Good on ya! Great idea about also writing down when the repeating charges hit.
I also list all the websites where I’ve given them my card info to hold on file, so I don’t have a failure the next time I buy from them. Amazon is easy 'cuz “next time” is probably “tomorrow”, but those 23 oddball websites you buy from just once every couple of years? By the time you next use them, this compromise will be out of sight out of mind ancient history.
At one time I used one card for all repeating payments and that card was used for nothing else. I had a different card I used for all normal retailing. The latter card was much more likely to be compromised than the former. With the advent of so much web-buying and storing your CCs everywhere, the separation proved impractical and I don’t do that now. But it’s something to consider; your habits and attitudes may differ enough that it works for you.
I do still have a gasoline brand-affiliated card I use only for gasoline. I get a few cents/gallon off, and gas pumps are infamous sources of compromise. If that card gets zapped it only affects how I pay for gasoline until the new card comes. So maybe one fill-up. And yes, it has been zapped a couple of times.
Niii-ii-iice. As I mentioned above I can crow about my vax today as well. Great line. Caw Caw!!
As to me:
Just after my last post I laid down in bed and 3h later I woke up. Must have needed that. Feel low energy / ambition but otherwise no discomfort. My laundry had been reposing in the dryer for about 3 days now. Just re-heated it (“bachelor ironing” I and first wife called it) then put it away. A few minutes later Her Ladyship returned and is now buried in her book while I yak w y’all.
Howdy Y’all! We deheathenated. I didn’t knock over the lectern or set the place on fire, so I call it a win. It was a nice service and the choir performed some really good music. I even took a moment at the end of the service to say thank you to the music director and the choir. I say, you do good it should be said outloud. Then we got our picture taken for the church directory. Afterward, it was back to da cave for sammiches and nappage. The desire for brownies is strong, so I whomped up a batch of brownie mix with pee-kahns. We shall snarf 'em later. The biiiiiig trash can has been hauled all the way down to the road for pickup tomorrow. Now we continue sloth and chillage.
MOOOOOOM prayers, vibes, and good thoughts for BIL. Hope he can get whatever is goin’ on all sorted out.
BooFae as a Verger, I don’t have a pointy stick, but I do have this stick.. The rest of the outfit I don’t have. Instead I wear a black cassock with a black sleeveless robe that has the Episcopal Church Shield patch and our St. Patrick’s shamrock emblem patch sewn on. Glad the music festival has been a ton o’ fun for you.
cookie that had to be annoyin’. Glad y’all got at least some sleep. Enjoy the visit with daughter and grand young’un.
Oopsie I am sure you were quite fetchin’ in your new frock. Sorry for all the ouchies! Also GRRR about the credit card. May the fix be as painless as possible.
Taters have fun at the maul. :: shudder ::
Pilot call it the covid jab blahs and enjoy the nappage. Nappage and rain go so well together!
I meant to address the vax topic this morning (and then got distracted by the credit card crap): I’m planning to get the newest shot + this year’s flu vax at the same time, but haven’t scheduled yet. The CVS locations near me have the new Moderna version, but I want to see if either of the local grocery stores is offering Pfizer. No reason other than that’s what I started with. I went with Moderna a year ago for the bivalent, just to switch things up, but I have an irrational preference to go back to Pfizer if it’s just as convenient; I’ll go with Moderna if Pfizer is too hard to find nearby, though.
I use PayPal for online purchases when I can, but I don’t know if it’s an option for any of the recurring/regular charges I’ve got set up…definitely something to look into once I get the new card! Thanks!
Sacred excrement!
I’ve only ever had the one credit card — by choice — and it’s only been compromised a handful of times over the years. I figure it’s a natural consequence of all of the online buying I do, even though I try to be careful about using secure payment URLs and PayPal and the like. I’ve never noticed a pattern. All in all it’s more of an inconvenience than anything else, but still pretty annoying when it happens.
My credit union’s main branch makes and programs cards. I’ve gone there for replacements before. That’s their “expedited” option. 
They don’t offer FedEx: it’s either go to the branch, or wait 7-10 business days for USPS. My only question for my CU in the morning will be if an in-person pickup is still an option, or if it’s too late and the mailing can’t be stopped (because the automated system theoretically began that process this morning).
PayPal handles some subscriptions I have (such as the local newspaper) just fine.
Some good news, maybe. SIL’s mom may beat times winged chariot yet. Somebody finally noticed that she was taking Warfarin while having internal bleeding. They stopped that, and she’s feeling some better.
I don’t know what else was going on with her, so don’t have a sense of whether she’s out of the woods yet or not, but SIL sounded happier, so here’s hoping.
I will say this, I’ve saved myself some serious trouble at least twice (prolly more) by researching my various meds and discontinuing ones that were doing bad things to me without waiting for the docs to get back to me. I would call and leave them detailed messages of course, but they have a whole bunch of patients to look out for. I’ve only got one, and I’m motivated. And sometimes it would take days for them to get back to me.
Glad you’re feeling better, Shoe.
Flyboy, back when we had a little money, we had a tiny cabin in a little beach town in Washington. (Lookup Ocean Park.) We had moles. Someone told me to put Juicy fruit gum in their holes. (I don’t think you’re supposed to chew it up first.) Anyway, it seemed to work. Dunno why. You could try that and if I’m wrong you won’t be out a lot of money and you’ll at least have some chewing gum.
Re: chili verde. Once upon a time I stumbled across Giada De Laurentis’ recipe for Vegetarian Chili Verde and started making that, with a few changes, of course. It’s good, and if you put pork in it it’s really good.
JtC, you maybe should check with Amtrak about vaping on board. They may consider it the same as smoking.
I only rode Amtrack once, around 50 years ago. We took the Coast Starliner, I think it was, from Eugene Oregon to San Francisco. It was shabby, to be kind.
I’ve long thought that I’d like to take a train across Canada some day though.
I’ve been thinking about eating something, and Wifey just brought me a bowl full of cantaloupe pieces. 
I think I’ll keep her.
Well, I’ve proofread my post and now I think I’ll quit. I used to blame Wifey’s keyboard for my mistakes, but apparently my new keyboard has the same problems, (except for the sticky “A” key).
Yay on the weight loss! For me, a grey blazer was always a workhorse. They go with both blues and blacks and anything else.
Meal prep and other Sunday chores done, supper et (a good pot of Italian wedding soup) and fixing to finish cutting out a project in the studio. Tomorrow it starts all over again.
And a good late afternoon to all. The Steak at Texas Roadhouse was slightly overdone, but still quite tasty and I remembered to order the salad without egg this time. Then worked on some of the Sunday NY Times puzzles (they will keep me thinking most of the week, off and on) and then went out to watch a friend’s ‘club’ youth soccer team play (they tied 1-1). Then off to the gym and scrubbed 500 calories off. All this exercise stuff seems to be helping, I used to coach/referee on Saturday but Sunday was a completely lost cause–now, not so much.
I have two credit cards, both of which I use and both of which I check on-line at least once a week (the PNC card is being a PITA, each time I login it wants to send me a passcode because it doesn’t recognize my machine…the same one I used to set the (&^*& account up with in the first place…). Payments have posted at my bank, so the card debits should be nice and low.
Oopsie, happy you got those compliments, you deserve them! Hope the Ouchies get to feeling better. Glad the power outage wasn’t too severe, sounds like a transformer blew. And keep after them on the credit card replacement.
That is as perfect a term (joyous seethe) as I have ever heard for a group of littles. I have got to remember that.
Getting my COVID shot at 3:15pm tomorrow at the local CVS. That should keep me well for the winter (which is coming, sooner or later).
Hippie, that sounds like pre-Amtrak, glad it went so well.
Dammit swampy, I was doing so well watching what I eat, and you go ahead and post about my all-time favorite belly-busters…now I’ll be dreaming of pecan (or walnut) brownies all night…
Bumba, glad SIL’s Mom is doing better; not taking any medicines at present but I concur, know their effects or suffer the consequences (almost lost my mom 8 years early becasue of that).
OK, am doing some of Pilot’s ‘bachelor ironing’ on some of the sweaty stuff from the gym (it’ll still go into the laundry but a little less sweaty than now). Sammiches for Sunday will be next on the agenda, then some tackleball watching and internettin’. All y’all take care.
Now that’s an idea I never thought of. Namely, putting sweaty stinky dirties in the dryer to dry them out before they go in a hamper for washing later. I’m a true lazy heathen of low style with a very high disgust threshold. But I’m sorry, that’s gross. 
The next stuff that goes in that dryer will be fresh and clean out of the washer and promptly contaminated.
I have very wet beach- or pool-wear and towels many days. That stuff hangs in the shower until it dries enough to put in the hamper. Which is typically overnight.
I live to tempt! I was comin’ in to say how good they are. I like really cakey brownies and these are especially cakey. Wish you had one. 
Long as we’re wishin’, wish I had one too. Or two.
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade is on. It reminded me that I need to have my fedora re-blocked. Unfortunately, Byrnie Utz Hats in Seattle closed five years ago after 84 years in business. 
It was August of 1963. Amtrak began in 1971 (I needed to look this up. I am no railroad expert)
I cleaned. I napped. the Packers gave me angina. Pretty much the typical Sunday at Casa de Perro.
That would be a good name for a metal style church choir. \m/–\m/
She’s a raven maniac.
So Sunday sloth looks like this?
Sorry about the CC debcle, Oopsie.
You wore your smoking jacket and fez, right?
They pawn it off on people like us.
I heard it like this
How To Get To Heaven By Drinking Beer
When we drink beer we get drunk
When we get drunk we go to sleep
When we sleep we commit not sin
Wnen we commit no sin we go to Heaven
So, let’s all drink beer and go to heaven!
Oh, hey, we can be “bruised fingernail” buddies!
Heh, I learned it as the fox, the chicken, and the sack of corn. Precisely the same setup - I recognized your version immediately.
Thank all the gods I got ready for work early enough to have already dealt with trash, because I knew Later Shoe would be heartily disinclined.
Tomorrow is definitely Laundry Day. I haven’t put away all the clean stuff, yet, but I really wanna strip the sheets and put nice, clean ones on (esp. after last week’s Sick-A-Thon … even with the cool Michigan nights I wound up turning on the A/C) but I am way too wiped out for that nonsense tonight.
Monkey got some gooshy-food when I got home, as a reward for greeting me so faithfully at the door and just generally being so handsome and wonderful, so he’s living the good life.
(It’s the faaaannncy stuff, too, with like 3 ingredients. Tonight was chicken and duck, so rest assured mo-fo eats better than me even when my appetite is good.)
Dammit, now I could go for some roasted duck!
Oh, and my manager brought a bunch of baby carrots to work, and I figured, with the absolute trash care I’ve been showing myself lately - plus the ready availability of Ranch dip - that perhaps a few vegetables in my diet wouldn’t be the worst idea.
So I award myself this 
for eating, like, five or six carrots earlier. 
Okay, I’ll catch all y’all on the flip side!
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.
Must be the NIV translation.
It would be gauche for a lady to wear her fez on the train.