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July 01, 2009
The sun came out a couple of times but mostly it's been an unbelievably dark and rainy, not to mention thundery and split-with-lightning, day, so in between editing I've been catching Quicken up with my checkbook and paying some bills. Being less than impeccable about entering debit-card transactions in my checkbook, I've recently got myself into the habit of skimming my bank transactions online to see if I missed anything or got any numbers wrong.
My bank listed two transactions that I hadn't recorded yet in either Quicken or my checkbook: two deposits on June 29. I yelped. I'd hoped they were coming, but it was a fingers-crossed kind of hoping. Nearly all my income arrives in the form of checks. These two deposits arrived by wire, from Norway. I know this is old hat to some of y'all, but I'm thrilled. I send out an invoice with my bank info on it and money arrives in my account. How cool is that? What's really cool is that my bank doesn't charge a fee the way it does to cash or deposit a check from another country, even if the check is in U.S. dollars.
Maybe I'll celebrate by catching up on my damn estimated tax payments.
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