Unique Experience

I had an experience on Friday [yeah I know it was the 13th as well] that I feel is unique. For weeks now I’ve known that a credit card of mine has been compromised. I didn’t think anything of it because the card is locked. I unlock it when I am going to make a purchase and then I use a virtual number. I never give the physical card number out. The card never leaves my home.

Friday was the kicker when someone tried to purchase $400 in groceries. That is when I reported the card as compromised. I was issued a replacement card and if I so elected, I could obtain the new card number rather than waiting for the mail to deliver it. I elected to wait as I am in no hurry to use the card. Within 2 minutes I got an alert that someone was trying to use the new card.

Now I had to call to talk to a human as I had been able to take the previous aforementioned action electronically. I learned that someone actually tried to use the new card 13 times. How is this possible? The only thing that I can think of is there is a limited number of credit card numbers and the issuing bank elected to reuse a card #. They told me that there would be an investigation but really how far will they push this? It would be nice if they could catch the person(s) responsible but I think that doesn’t happen too often.

There is my unique experience. None of the transactions went through and even if they had I wouldn’t be liable for them. I am much more concerned about my debit card being hacked because you play hell getting your money back, at least that was the case for my late spouse when someone went on a shopping spree with his debit card buying cell phones and iPads. What a mess.

Friday night I opted to try 2 of the new sleeping pills that I got earlier in the month. Fuck me up it did, I was down for the count. In fact, I didn’t much feel like doing anything so I spend the day at home and slept a good portion of it away. Gator seemed pretty happy about that up until the evening came then there was just no pleasing her, meow this and meow that.

Thanksgiving has changed, the restaurant is unable to honor our reservation due to an order that has closed all indoor dining. They sold me a turkey day package, which my friends are going to pay for and pickup. I’m just waiting on a response for when to come over and chow down.

I got all of the usual shopping done today for me and my little girl. I’m baking a frozen pizza tonight Sausage & Pepperoni. It’s cold out and warming up the oven sounds like a nice thing to do.

I am working on laundry and washed my pillows today. I learned the hard way you don’t want to wash just one pillow at a time. That causes the washer to be unbalanced and your washer will walk, not to mention the vibration and noise. I shoved all 3 pillows in and that quieted things down. Now I am trying to get them to dry and then it will be the sheets turn. I will probably throw in one of the dirty pet beds the girls used to use in after that. I’ve been watching and there aren’t any great deals like there were in years past on pet beds. Plus, this is one I am putting in my office and I don’t have any guarantee that Gator will actually use it. If she is anything like the first cat I had, every time you spent money on a toy, he wouldn’t use it. Bring him home a straw from a restaurant and he would play with it for hours. The late Ms. Momma was the same way, she had this thing for cotton swabs. She loved to flip them and catch them. This place was littered with them for the first few years but like anything else that lost its luster.

I can’t believe tomorrow will be Monday and it’s back to work. I’ve been having so much fun relaxing. I need to get through this week, then 3 days next week and I will be having me some vacation. That will be short lived like all good times are and then it will be back to work for the rest of the year.

Lots of people are upset that restaurants are closed for indoor dining and that were on the verge of mandatory stay at home orders again. No matter who makes that call they are the unpopular person by default and that is where people focus their anger. I’m doing my part by staying home and only going out when necessary and then wearing a mask. I’ve made it this long and while the weight is piling on and I am getting restless and bored I am at least safe. We all need to hang in there a while longer and then this too shall pass. I am eager for our newly elected President to take office as that is when something will actually be done about COVID on a Federal Level and that will help set the stage to bring this to a close. Until then our current President isn’t going to do much and if he would have won the election his actions or should I say in actions would probably be the same.

I hope that you had a great weekend, that your safe & warm. Be well and we will talk again soon.