Rabbit smokes a pipe puzzle

Washington Mutual 1; Your Privacy 0

So here's a fun fact. While scrolling through my new bank's Account Disclosure and Regulations Quick* Reference Guide, I paid special attention to the section titled "Your Privacy". Lack of, would seem more appropriate.

Have you ever wondered who gave your address to all of those pre-approved credit cards the second you seem like you've escaped the hurdle of debt? It's your bank.

Unless you call or write and explicitly ask them not to share your information with non-affiliated third parties (and affiliated third parties, I guess), they will report your transaction information to credit card, travel, and car rental companies. And I'm pretty sure it doesn't stop there.

Why is this "service" opt-out? Well, I know why. Money. But what the hell? And they sell it to you on page 13 of the disclosure agreement as if they're doing it on your behalf... to help you. This doesn't seem right. And the thing is, I support marketing. I work in marketing. My new job is as a fucking forecast trend analyst, for fuck's sake. But providing people's personal financial data to bottom dwellers hoping to capitalize on struggle, on someone's efforts to get themselves out of debt through high-interest, pre-approved credit cards? Oh, that makes me angry. Fuck that.

*75 pages of quickness.

After hours featuring falafel

We are astonished by our bill

The night continues

and still no cover

We don't do the cover charge

So we go to a dive bar instead.

We are uneasy of the rock bottom prices

Hmm...

The Met before dinner

Well, they fit

But I can't walk in them. At all. Broken necks are not sexy.

Coffee afternoon

KGB bar

Viva la sangria!

Yum

At the Crash Mansion

Battle of the bands.

In my neighborhood

Franklin has a new window friend

But the Baby is left all alone.

Painted on the wall in my bedroom

Ending the night with tuna tataki

Baby hisses Three's a Crowd to curious black cat

I contemplate fish ball soup

And order a salad instead.

Halloween cat does not take to dogs

Cat's behavior improves when coupled with undefined threat and absolute captivity

Angry cat sends vet to hospital

The old me returns

Am going crazy with moving.

• Rented place: check.
• Sold car: check.
• Bought ticket: check.

But there's so much more to do! And only two days left. So the old me, the frantic me, has returned. The one who coasts through stop signs and drives too fast and gets annoyed at the slowpokes in my way. The old me does not care that maybe they are from Wyoming and are not used to highway driving. The old me thinks they should get out of my way. The old me needs to take a deep breath. And release.

Taking a break for just a sec

Here's the thing is that I love the sound of rain at night. Coincidentally, I love the way rain at night appears on my weather widget.
Apple, sometimes you do things so right.
But it's not raining.

Relocating my dependency

Day Two of Starbucks Hiatus
Have not given up my daily support of the free market, however. Allegedly, Peaberry coffee has more caffeine. Am supplying Photoshop effort as evidence.

How do you define seductive?

Apparently, it's Fran Drescher.

Mixed messages, part two

First Radiohead, now this? I want to hate big business. I want to hate
the model. But it's just so convenient. And now promotes independent
films? (that also make a lot of money)

The TriBeCa walketh

To be exact, two Rebeccas pose and I take a picture, moments before dropping the phone.

Returning the equipment

Hoping they won't charge extra day for 43 minutes late

Working the saw

I helpfully do nothing to assist.

Becky's amazing handiwork

Need your floors done? Twitter her @citrus.

An engineer's guide to cats

Get your chapers on!

Disposable is not sustainable

At the doctor's office, in the waiting room. There's a TV broadcasting "accentHealth"--your guide to healthy living.

Well, they just had a short piece about how reducing the clutter in your life will make everything else better. And advises regular anti-bacterial cleaning. To which the lady host of the show comments, "I don't know why they just don't make EVERYTHING disposable."

What?

The dark days are gone

and the bright days are here.
My sunny one shines so sincere.
Sunny one so true, I love you.

Action at home depot

Pricing the flagstone on a sunny day at the market.

Starbucks, continued

A week later, the sign is almost hung!

Note for someone else

Sighted on the ground in the mall parking lot, next to a giant SUV.
A bad parker and a litterbug, it would appear.

Hello, my friend, hello

Just called to let you know... that I am tired of you.
Spring, please.

kitten war

The kit is still winning.

How a starbucks is born

Now, at your local grocery store. A Starbucks sign. Unfair trade
coffee to follow.

Seeking Paul Bunyan

The May Fire

music video for an old friend's band, The May Fire, in San Francisco. Old friend as in grade school, not as in senior citizen.


Old friend's band should consider an east coast/rocky mountain tour.

Snow? Again?

Enough with the blizzard, M. Nature.

City pic

Gray spring days are perfect.

Bottomless mimosas...

At Blockhead's make sleepy Saturday brunches even better.

3 rebeccas

In other news, I practice blogging from phone like it's 2006.

St. Patrick's day too much

Not even the beads make me Irish.

Scooter woes

Have decided latest 125cc scooter upgrade is too bottom-heavy. And too fast. Tried to take it back to the local scooter store but they refused.

"You don't buy an Acura and turn it in for a Honda," they tell me.

You do if you don't feel safe in the Acura and the dealership is a neighborhood shop that values your business, I reply.

I advertised my scooter for sale on Craigslist, but somebody flagged it for removal a mere 20 minutes after posting. What the hell? Can't a girl sell her scooter? I just want my 50cc orange buddy back!

My craiglist ad