Adult

I like being an adult some times, especially because it means I can do things like have pesto for breakfast when I didn't sleep well and so don't feel up to running.  Make some pasta, pop some pesto on it.  Breakfast.  Yum. :-)

T-shirts

It means you're screwed.

I love web comics. :)

In case you were tired of hearing about how cool the iPod is...

Rejected Limited Edition iPods.

Lunchies

A lovely, yet light lunch with heterodoxy got me out of my office (for once) and across the mall to a more normal part of town. L'Enfant is pretty architecturally challenged interesting, but the dearth of food choice is depressing. The soba noodle salad was just what a needed. As was the post-lunch Dagoba Chocolate Bar (Lime flavor, with macadamia nuts - yum!).

Now it's reading up on loan guarantees. *snore* Trying to stay awake enough to learn something before this 3 pm meeting I have on the subject. Yuck. Either a "maturity moment" (aka, "learning to become expert at something you never wanted to have to do in the first place", which is my dad's definition of maturity) or "AFOG" ("Another Fucking Opporunity For Growth"), depending on how you look at it. Whee. ;)

Then a light nap, I think. Waking up at 4 am and not being able to get back to sleep was not a happy thing for me. As tempting as it is to go out to Omega tonight, since I've not been in ages, I need the sleep more than I need to go bug friends I've not seen in a while. They can wait another week or three.

Skins Game

Much as I would like to root for the home team, I'm asking everyone to pray the Redskins lose on Sunday. Please!

Wanna scare yourself?

Order your credit reports.  One from each of the credit reporting bureaus.

I share a name with my father; it's the same but for the roman numeral after mine.  Because of this, it appears that my account is tied to his, and I have to get them untied with each of the three agencies.  Of the three, I was only able to get onto Equifax' web site and actually order and see my credit report.  The things I found wrong so far:

1. The roman numeral is wrong (in fact, they list it as an arabic numeral, albeit the wrong one).


2. The 'current' address listed is over 5 years old.


3. They only list two different accounts as being open, both student loans, and none of my credit cards, the other student loans, etc.


4. I have no employment history. It looks as if I've never worked in my life.

And that's just so far.  Can't wait to talk to someone on the phone tomorrow.  Eeck.

Hopefully the user name and password will arrive from Experian in the next couple days (theirs was, last time I checked, the most messed up of the three).  Transunion, on the other hand, wouldn't even give me a phone number to call and confirm my identity, they only gave me the option to receive the report in paper form via the mail.  Dweebs.

The joys of trying to make sure your credit is okay.

The weird thing was, on the phone with Equifax (and Experian) I had to list off two or three different credit accounts and either the limit or the current balance in order to confirm my identity.  So it's not like their computers don't have this information, but it's not showing up on the actual credit report.  How.  Freakin'. Bizarre.