You certainly were missed, Ann. I hope that Spring will treat you better than did winter.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > You can see I wrote this a few days ago.. > Thunderbird says I sent it, but it never bounced into my PDML folder nor did > anyone respond - and I got a message when I finished writing it that I timed > out. So I thought I lost it and was about to re-write > the thing essentially so you would know why I've ben silent. > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: OT_ If it's not one thing.. (off again, and back again) > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:08:31 -0400 > From: Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > > February and early March has been a bit too eventful here, not so much > in a good way - but all resolved. > > On the health scene, nothing life threatening or severe, just yukky. > A good two week bout with a cold - intense for the first few days. > Then MOnday night - well, Tuesday very early am, the common intestinal > virus struck (first you think you're afraid you'll die, then your afraid you > won't) - which I haven't had since 1989 . 1989 in Seward > Alaska. Barfing being so upsetting to me that I can remember every > event since I was 15. Happily, there were only 5, maybe 6 times. So > I'm lucky as all get out. > > My neighbors got me gingerale and apple juice and left it by my door. > NOt being sure if I had the most contageous form, but two of my friend > Kate's shop girls had it one before mine and one after - so the east > village seems to have been hit. > > Now I'm FINE - just very tired still. > > On the NON-health scene, my two checking and one savings account at > HSBC were closed at the end of February, by the bank! Fortunately, > with almost a month's warning. Totally baffling. HAving been at the > bank for more than 30 years (that is at banks they took over) I had to > think this was some sort of glitch - or , at the very least, possibly > conencted to my debit card being compromised at a Atm back in JUne last > year... and still "must be a mistake" was my thought. > > So after phone calls on Saturday the 8th of Feb.(when bank was closed) and a > visit to bank on MOnday it seemed to be true and absolutely NO reason was > given - to me or the bank officer locally that I've known a while and was > trying to help. The only thing anyone said was "you aren't the only one." > And it was suggested I go immediately and get a bank account somewhere else > (which I did) but which bank I'll stay quiet about publicly. Interestingly, > HSBC did NOT cancel the small limit credit card I had recently gotten. > > ON the "not the only one" clue, I went to the web. Found any number of > horror stories about HSBC customers, with lots more money than moi, > suddenly finding themselves with declined transactions, etc. Mostly, > small business clients. > > MY suspicion is that I"m simply too poor for them, but they can't say > that. > > It's all taken care of now, I'm quite happy with new bank and the one > thing I worried most about was whether my ss check would be in my NEW > bank account yesterday - and it was. PHEW! > > I didnt' want to bitch and moan about this stuff in the midst of it > to you guys because there was not much I could do about any of it. > > (that, and the cold and the gutwrenching malady and the endless winter..) > > Ebay sales picked up in the last weeks so that helped my spirits a lot, > but February had been dismal in that regard. > > I was actually tempted to go to the media about HSBC but couldn't face > it and am well rid of them. It is terribly scary that they can get > away with it with absolutely no reason given to me or the local bank > staff. > > So I'm officially de-lurked - will try to keep up with stuff - more than > making an occasional "like" to those of you are friends with me on > FB. > > Oh yeah, I also finally switched over to NEW smugmug.. so after getting it > kinda close to the old look that I liked I "published" it... > > If any of you are on smugmug and set up in NEW aside from Don and George > (and Cory?) I'd like to know. The link below, of course, shows my > landing page. > > One good thing is, I was able to add code easily to separate the > thumbnails that come up if you do a search by subject on my site > so they aren't all smashed together as in the default.. > > Finally - I did another little bit of design work for T shirts and such on > cafe press - which see here: > http://annsan.smugmug.com/Graphic-Design/Anns-design-work/i-hwp4pr5/A > > > ann > annsan.smugmug.com > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
