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07-04-2014, 11:14 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
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Originally Posted by Alan
... I've found a provider or 2 who still don't have the ability for victims customers to pay on-line. Paper invoices and checks  |
My two bank's bill pay services send both online payments and paper mail. I hadn't realized that wasn't the norm. Banks are Capital One and USAA
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07-05-2014, 06:08 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 14,328
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Getting ready to travel soon to Portland West and decided to recheck the rental car rate that I had negotiated back in March. I was delighted to see that I could upgrade a size and still save $40 by re-booking.
I take the light rail into town and rent from a neighborhood Hertz location. Just for laughs, I compared the rental charge picking up downtown vs at PDX. Amazingly, it is $400 vs $1800. In either case the car is returned to PDX.
As Walt would say, not bad money for an hour's work.
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07-05-2014, 12:42 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Vancouver/Gulf Islands/Baja
Posts: 479
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Gonna strap our two kayaks on top of our pickup and hit up a few different gulf islands in the next week. Quite a few of the islands have nice waterfront pubs - a nice reward after several hours of paddling. (To forum members, a heads up... I will be talking about kayaking a lot here - as my user name might suggest, it's an obsession)
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07-05-2014, 12:47 PM
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#1544
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
Posts: 50,022
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Originally Posted by Sea Kayaker
Gonna strap our two kayaks on top of our pickup...
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Think I saw you on the road a couple of weeks ago...
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07-05-2014, 12:54 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Vancouver/Gulf Islands/Baja
Posts: 479
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Okay, I literally laughed out loud at that one!
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07-05-2014, 12:57 PM
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#1546
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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I was really impressed with how you came up with the idea of laying plywood on the hood to improve access to your overhead rack.
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07-05-2014, 01:51 PM
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#1547
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Originally Posted by REWahoo
I was really impressed with how you came up with the idea of laying plywood on the hood to improve access to your overhead rack.
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Plywood? That's a redneck "Woody".
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07-05-2014, 09:42 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N. Yorkshire
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Originally Posted by ItDontMeanAThing
My two bank's bill pay services send both online payments and paper mail. I hadn't realized that wasn't the norm. Banks are Capital One and USAA
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I was talking about healthcare providers who don't allow you to go to their site and pay online and won't send you invoices electronically. When traveling it means that I have to have someone monitoring my mail. I can pay the invoices online by having my bank send snail mail checks, but healthcare are the only financial bills that still arrive by USPS and don't allow me to go paperless.
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07-06-2014, 04:45 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Took a deep breath and booked Galapagos/Machu Picchu trip for 2016. Now need to find something to do in the meantime. Have a fall trip to the east coast and a bunch of days in Rehoboth Beach, DE. Love it there that time of year, lots of waterfowl festivals going on, and it's an R month. Also not going far but taking a 10 day advance degree herpetological course with The American Museum of Natural History, right here in town. When they asked why a semi-lay person would want to take the course, I had to tell the truth. Ms G. wants me out of the house for ten days.
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07-06-2014, 05:08 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
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Originally Posted by grasshopper
Ms G. wants me out of the house for no less than ten days at a time.
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Fixed it for you.
Seriously, I've really struggled with that trip, but haven't reached the breaking (open the wallet) point yet. Hope you have a great time!
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07-06-2014, 07:09 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Posts: 583
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
I was talking about healthcare providers who don't allow you to go to their site and pay online and won't send you invoices electronically. When traveling it means that I have to have someone monitoring my mail. I can pay the invoices online by having my bank send snail mail checks, but healthcare are the only financial bills that still arrive by USPS and don't allow me to go paperless.
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That's a pain. Some (most?) mail forwarding services scan incoming mail, then put PDFs online. Not paperless, but no one needs to monitor your paper mail.
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07-07-2014, 02:08 PM
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#1553
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Apr 2010
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Just booked our one way fare to Bangkok on New Years eve. We have a cruise booked from Sydney on Feb 20. Plan to travel through Thailand, Malaysia and then to Oz. Better than staying home in the snow. Not certain what route we will take home in March. Lots of beach time in Southern Thailand.
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07-07-2014, 03:49 PM
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#1554
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
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Just booked an overnight train from Amsterdam to Munich. Sleeper car.
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07-07-2014, 04:02 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Originally Posted by audreyh1
Just booked an overnight train from Amsterdam to Munich. Sleeper car.
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I realize you may have many reasons for choosing the train. How does the price compare with airfare?
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07-07-2014, 05:03 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
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Heading up to Newfoundland soon so DW can enjoy watching puffins. I think puffins are fine birds, but I'll probably be more interested in things like lobster.
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07-07-2014, 05:10 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 249
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EastWest Gal
This is in response to our Alaska/Canada trip. No, we are on a larger ship. We are in Juneau and couldn't ask for better luck with the weather. Sunny, warm, beautiful.
Hubbard Glacier
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Mountain lake between Anchorage and Seward.
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More mountains.
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Gorgeous scenery thanks for posting!!!
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07-07-2014, 05:12 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by braumeister
Heading up to Newfoundland soon so DW can enjoy watching puffins. I think puffins are fine birds, but I'll probably be more interested in things like lobster.
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Don't forget to get screeched!
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07-07-2014, 05:15 PM
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#1559
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by braumeister
Heading up to Newfoundland soon so DW can enjoy watching puffins. I think puffins are fine birds, but I'll probably be more interested in things like lobster.
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Hey, do not eat all the lobster. Leave some for me. I will be up in that region a bit later, in September.
PS. Uh oh! Just found out the lobster season closes in July. Arghh!
PPS. I remember getting lobster in Maine during a leaf peeping trip years ago. Looks like the lobster season is longer in Maine. I am saved!
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07-07-2014, 05:20 PM
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#1560
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Vancouver/Gulf Islands/Baja
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Quote:
Originally Posted by REWahoo
Think I saw you on the road a couple of weeks ago...
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Actually, this is how we roll, but close. 
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