Gotta love life
May. 21st, 2013 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewaynebecause it beats the alternatives.
A few weeks ago it was recommended that I get hearing aides. I've had a loss in my left year for ages, now my right ear has a loss. It's really not too bad, but in a noisy environment my hearing can shut down. The thing that really offers an advantage is that it could improve my tinnitus, which at times drives me nuts.
A pair of hearing aides costs about US$1,000 after insurance. And because Adobe is being a bunch of rectal haberdashers by making all of their software subscription-only, I need to buy a $600 software package.
So I cashed out a fund that I've been sitting on. Got a check today for a bit under $2700. Gets me the hearing aides, the software, and a substantial chunk towards a new (though used) camera body.
I recently found out that my bank offers an app that allows you to deposit checks via phone. Great!, thinks I, in my naivete. I download said app, and find out that it can only deposit a maximum of $2500 on a single check.
My closest branch and ATM is 100 miles away. I opened the account when I was living in Las Cruces, and I've been very happy with their service, and very unhappy with the service of the local banks, thus I am disinclined to relocate my funds.
So it looks like we'll deposit the check in my wife's account, use her card to pay for everything, then she'll write me a check for the balance that I'll either scan or deposit when we're in Colorado next week as there's a branch of my bank near where we'll be staying.
*sigh*
I really shouldn't bitch. What I'm trying to do would have been pretty much inconceivable ten years ago.
A few weeks ago it was recommended that I get hearing aides. I've had a loss in my left year for ages, now my right ear has a loss. It's really not too bad, but in a noisy environment my hearing can shut down. The thing that really offers an advantage is that it could improve my tinnitus, which at times drives me nuts.
A pair of hearing aides costs about US$1,000 after insurance. And because Adobe is being a bunch of rectal haberdashers by making all of their software subscription-only, I need to buy a $600 software package.
So I cashed out a fund that I've been sitting on. Got a check today for a bit under $2700. Gets me the hearing aides, the software, and a substantial chunk towards a new (though used) camera body.
I recently found out that my bank offers an app that allows you to deposit checks via phone. Great!, thinks I, in my naivete. I download said app, and find out that it can only deposit a maximum of $2500 on a single check.
My closest branch and ATM is 100 miles away. I opened the account when I was living in Las Cruces, and I've been very happy with their service, and very unhappy with the service of the local banks, thus I am disinclined to relocate my funds.
So it looks like we'll deposit the check in my wife's account, use her card to pay for everything, then she'll write me a check for the balance that I'll either scan or deposit when we're in Colorado next week as there's a branch of my bank near where we'll be staying.
*sigh*
I really shouldn't bitch. What I'm trying to do would have been pretty much inconceivable ten years ago.
