Apr 4

 In the borough we have doll, rainy, cloudy, not nice, basically temperature. We're talking 36.37. that's about it for the day and buckets of rain coming this afternoon. 

Already from yesterday everything has changed. I couldn't sleep this morning. Got up at 4:00. Didn't know what to do so I said play with the phone. Basically I figured I'll give it one more shot. Trying to do the transfer of my personal checking account to wise debit. 

As well, I had been trouble getting on to the Kudo mobile phone service that before it was simple. Now I get part of a website and not much more. Just to be sure, I went on Koodo forum where you can ask questions and get answers to problems. As before, one of the first pieces of advice is if you're using a VPN, turn it off and it may resolve your problems. Of course I'm going " I'm not using my VPN " right now but I decided to check. Well you got it. The VPN was on so I turned off the VPN. Got to the Koodo website easily. 

. Now I'm thinking if that worked what about Wise and you're not going to believe it,  tried Wise and hooked up to my bank account. Within 3 minutes I had transferred money.

So what we're looking at is the reason I couldn't connect to the bank was the bank didn't know where I was or didn't recognize the VPN site as my phone okay dummy here. Figured it out after 7 days

 

 

 

 

🧼 on April the 3 rd

 🧼 in the  ' boro, sun is out in a cloudy sky w/ temperature soaring to 60 F or close. Coffee in hand and typing. Almost coordinated. Waking by the minute.
Thoughts on the banking / internet / interac drama.
You should know. The hope is, perhaps, PC banking will allow Wise to receive funds via Interac or bank to bank transfer. Thus, I can start to plan Debit spending in the UK. Debit would be easier then hauling cash around. For us, starting in Staines [ London locale ], debit is considered de rigeur [ barring independent operators - fruit stand etc in the High St market].
I intimated a wish to spread out our banking a bit, taking advantage of saving accounts premiums.

And if I got the drift correct. PC banking will provide a Matercard linked to PC food venues [ Loblaws and No Frills. Add in Shoppers Drug Mart and Canadian Tire. Bonus, all these businesses offer PC optimum points.

We shall see said the Zen Master

OK. start the day. later folks ( Post # 4272 )

🪫 2 of April

 🪫... the state of old [ er ] age. in the ' boro, the day is dull. We will warm up to 52 F this aft. Then rain or snow at noon [ come on ..... snow, alright rain ]

The coldest forecast day is Tues at 32.

going for coffee. ah. good brew this morn

Follow up,  battling computers or the dark forces of interacting ' chips '.

 Lately, I was explaining my problem transferring money from CIBC to Wise and the fact that transactions wouldn't go through Well, today, I thought let's beat them at their own game. I decided to start an online banking account. I chose PC financial because a friend uses PC and claims to have no problems. 
Besides, for quite some time, I have been debating about setting up a second banking option. Perhaps, one offering better rates for savings and PC has a marquee 2.2 % in savings

beginning.                                                               
I managed to set up a PC account. They offered the option of transferring money into my new account and I chose Interac. Of course I chose interact just to see if it would work. So I transferred $1,000 which immediately disappeared from my CIBC account but did not appear in my PC financial account.           
 I waited an appropriate amount of time, still nothing. While waiting, I decided to choose the option that was offered, notification by email when any transfers occurred. Still nothing  

Okay, now I call support at PC financial, wait 25 minutes. Get a lady and she explains that interac transfers take three business days and because this is my first transaction, it might be five. Furthermore, the funds might be held until everything clears through both banking systems. Plus some Interac transfers are limited at first to $ 500. I said. Thank you and rang off

 5 minutes ago I get a notification " PC financial has received $1,000 interact transfer. It is now in your account. And would you like to transfer to savings

Crikey and all gods in heaven. The left hand and right hand don't have quantum entanglement it seems. That's an astronomy / physics quip.

🛍 April 1 in the building spring

 🛍 in the ' boro .... definitely, a work in progress. Bleeding cold and gusty. This is take out your rubbers and hooded coats feeling

shoppping day. First, lunch at the Magic Noodle [ our go to ].
Then we go to Costco. Except today it was visit Optical Div. for a touch up, re - adjustment on my latest reading glasses. The glasses came slightly askew and then proceeded to become crooked and not pliable at all.
The lady at Opt. Div, said give me 15 min and we did. Quite the change.
Shopping proceeded to get out of hand
.... chicken thighs, $ 2 off the package of 20.
... toilet paper is the standard Costco price [ more than fair ]
.... BBQ chicken is $ 8, not giant but for two, bonus
... cap it off w / Husky sealable bags for [ travel, packing ....] anyway there is a vacuum port for shrink packaging your clothes? or ..... and $ 4 dollars off.
We are travelling, so, maybe squeeze some clothes down.
Thus, out of hand is the apt description of me at Costco. Nothing will be wasted. The packing vacuum bags [  ????? ] but a great idea. Toilet paper - well, necessary, even if there 40 rolls under the stairs.

On the prepping front. I started an account w/ Wise. Wise is an international debit card. Transfer money from your bank to Wise. Then while away, you use the debit card for daily spending [ you convert currency before you travel ]. The start, transferred $ 100 Cdn. Used the Wise card for practice. Works. Now, let s transfer more ..... what ?  Four days later and I'm trying to figure out how to get through. All starts well, then " we cannot complete your transaction " keeps appearing.
Last year, I sent GBP ahead to the cousins and then ' borrowed the money back. Guess what, might be the same again.

You understand that starting early, gives me room to adjust.

💸 Marching 31

 💸 ' boro weather. Mild and sunny giving way to gusty cold, leading to gallons of water per minute 

An electrician sorted out some minor physical shortcomings in the house. We are lined up for a more arduous session to route a new electric line to the outside deck

A former Leacock student came by and we swapped 📚 sci fi 

yes. beginning to think that some old ways and possessions need re - thinking and re - homing
Hard but true.

We are stepping closer to completing prep for our UK trip

🧮 Marchessa thirty

  🧮' boro gets full Spring 🌼. OK.  no flowers but work outside type weather. My priority was the garage

Wad hapin'd ! Swept the West side where the truck goes. Hand sweeping. Then everything gets in the way. Stuff ( really stuff ) needed binning, re shelving ( meaning should have been binned but saved for ...... another three years ). And re organized storage.

A valiant try. Someone has to do it. That's gospel

Somehow, feels like you have to do something - cleaning is needed and overdue

💷 Mar 29 ... running ......

 💷 ... with a younger crowd, next to my age was a 40 y.o.
Way too young. They did all the work.
Carrying and removing and replacing the truck hard top cover.
Loading and unloading  three times.
Putting a TV and stand together [ I got to sit and put in batteries ]

I'm dead.