Starting off with giving credit, I did get the name for this blog from my well traveled and even more well documented roommate, Will. He, an English major, wrote his first blog about his adventures in China, and continued blogging about his college experience. Very witty, and always grammatically correct. That was his blog, and this is mine. I'll be focusing on actually getting around to writing on here, and less on exactitudeness of grammaticalness and stubbornity of using actual real words. However, I will do my reader's a huge facor and do my best to avoid the 'lol's and the 'like's that permiate chat speach. Anyways (my favorite nonword), I'm in the season now of American football and European preparation. My time is split between the Rose Bowl and preparing online banking connections for when I get over there. I have Wachovia but I recently found out that they would charge me 2% of every transaction AND an exorbitant 5 DOLLARS per ATM transaction. Instead of getting washed for the cost of a subway footlong sub every time I need to withdraw money, I opened up a Michigan State Credit Union account and they only charge me 1% and a 1$ fee for ATMs. I'm learning that it costs more money to use your own money. With Wachovia, they charge me three dollars every time I want to transfer money out of my account into another account. Nuts to that, I found a way to get around that and have my MSUCU account 'take' those funds and avoid that fee. I would kill to find a bank that would just use my money on the market in an advantagious manner for their own profit and not charge me every time I want to use MY money; a bank where I take out $5 and it only takes out $5, all of which I RECEIVE. You'd THINK that since Wachovia just got bought out and is going down the tubes, they'd realize they're not in a position to live up to their nickname, "Walkalloverya". Apparently their precarious position only makes them not give a crap, kind of the way soon-to-be-former presidents seem to act towards their responsibilities the last few months of office. Now that that vent is over, I am switching as much of my funds to a better institution, and moving on.
Before I go, I would be amiss to close out without welcoming a very special lady into the world!
Genevieve Noel - Born Dec 30, 2008 at 8:15pm. 9 lbs 6 oz and 21.75 inches long!
nice job, Dan! and to think this from a guy who didn't know what Wikipedia was freshman year. guess germany doesn't have rocks big enough to live under :) we should link to each other's sites. i like your entry, what's the 897 about on the top left?
ReplyDeletehaha, you spelled both favor (facor) and speech (speach) incorrectly. but it's ok. i still love you. also, i'd say 'anyways' is my favorite non-word as well, but it's actually a word (and by that i mean it has an official definition in merriam-webster). anywho (my second favorite non-word), what IS up with the 897? it's in that gray bubble at the top left and in the orange one. sketch...
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