Chaos? Yeah, We've Got Some...
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billroperSee, they sold my bank.
This happens to us periodically. This is the bank where Gretchen used to work. The original parent bank sold off the suburban branches to a bank from downstate after a management shakeup. Then they got into trouble and sold themselves to a bank from California and Missouri who figured that penetrating the Chicago market would be a piece of cake. When that didn't work out for them, they sold the Chicago area branches to a bank from Ohio who figured that penetrating the Chicago market would be a piece of cake. (Still wasn't, but at least they tried advertising.) So now, that bank has sold all of itself to a different Ohio bank.
The changeover to the new online banking system will be next weekend while we're at Capricon. It is also just about the time of year when I make sure that I've downloaded all of the banking info for Dodeka and ISFiC Press so that I can work through the taxes.
So I downloaded all of that today and printed out all of the check images so that I have them safely on my computer.
I also went to StubHub and put together a big spreadsheet so I could figure out what I made from selling Cubs tickets last season. This has never been a problem before, because the only question would be how much money I had lost on my Cubs tickets, with the losses being (sadly) not deductible. Gains, on the other hand...
Having done all that, I thought about the issue of having all of this data "safely" on my computer. And I looked at the NAS sitting on my desk that should hold my backup.
Why is that not powered on?
So I powered it on.
And apparently, the backup that I started when I got the NAS had never finished.
It is running now. When that is done, I will back up all of the music on the Dodeka side of the machine.
This will take a while... :)
This happens to us periodically. This is the bank where Gretchen used to work. The original parent bank sold off the suburban branches to a bank from downstate after a management shakeup. Then they got into trouble and sold themselves to a bank from California and Missouri who figured that penetrating the Chicago market would be a piece of cake. When that didn't work out for them, they sold the Chicago area branches to a bank from Ohio who figured that penetrating the Chicago market would be a piece of cake. (Still wasn't, but at least they tried advertising.) So now, that bank has sold all of itself to a different Ohio bank.
The changeover to the new online banking system will be next weekend while we're at Capricon. It is also just about the time of year when I make sure that I've downloaded all of the banking info for Dodeka and ISFiC Press so that I can work through the taxes.
So I downloaded all of that today and printed out all of the check images so that I have them safely on my computer.
I also went to StubHub and put together a big spreadsheet so I could figure out what I made from selling Cubs tickets last season. This has never been a problem before, because the only question would be how much money I had lost on my Cubs tickets, with the losses being (sadly) not deductible. Gains, on the other hand...
Having done all that, I thought about the issue of having all of this data "safely" on my computer. And I looked at the NAS sitting on my desk that should hold my backup.
Why is that not powered on?
So I powered it on.
And apparently, the backup that I started when I got the NAS had never finished.
It is running now. When that is done, I will back up all of the music on the Dodeka side of the machine.
This will take a while... :)
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Date: 2017-02-13 12:55 am (UTC)That sentence reminded me of something, but I wasn't sure what. After a few seconds I realized that it reminded me of what JFK said when he was asked how he became a war hero: "They sank my boat."
Does my mind work in strange ways?
Sounds like you're doing a great job of planning ahead and protecting yourself against possible disasters, downloading and backing up stuff just in case.