what the 30s were like. In the next few months, I worry that we'll all find out.
I got the checks I ordered. Nice. I'm being dinged $40 as a late payment from the landlord and I'm not sure why. I've found that the credit union's bill pay can be useful, but its slow, and doubly slow when the receiver doesn't seem to handle the EFT well. Far faster to write a check, date it, and stop by the landlord. Not to say that I'm completely reverting back to primitive, I'm just bowing to the best way depending on the payee.
The check patterns were fun - if I wanted a Scooby Doo checks, or Cruella De Vil, well, I know where to go. But the safest is the classiest. Imagine writing a mortgage check on the Scooby Doos. 
Am back at 167, and I'm making progress on the database. It seems unstable lately - it bombed out on me several times today.
I've sometimes wondered...
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For when my CU mails checks, they just commit to have it show up in the mail on the day I set it to pay. I am blown away by this because I avoid paper mail because it is really slow and terrible here. But people like the kid's piano teacher are amazed my check always shows up in the mail when I said it would. She seemed kind of concerned at first when I told her I'd pay her through my bill pay, but impressed in the end. MS. Preschool also thought it was really cool. Lord knows how none of my bill pay checks have ever got lost in the mail for days or weeks - is bound to happen - was largely why I stopped writing paper checks. But I have fallen into the ease of typing a number into the screen and not having to worry about it. (SO EASY!)