the 13th...

[jay]

So far today scrapeth mightily... the meeting with CSC and the FAA folks led to them talking past each other... we will have to rein in CSC or possibly not exercise their contract option. The CSC lead guy figuratively walked over the FAA lead (the end customer!) in a discussion before lunch. And Pat and a friend got involved in a (probably avoidable) flamefest with each other. And neither of us looked at our checking account last night, it went negative by $100, and now we're facing $420 in wasted overdraft charges (14 small items, mostly point-of-sale... our bank (Wells Fargo) puts though all debits nightly in descending order, so as to generate the greatest amount of fees). So the cost of various toys, groceries, and airline tickets to Georgia just effectively went up. We've paid over $1K in overdraft charges this year alone, all coming from small overages... sigh.

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Thanks! patgreene has no income herself, so that hadn't occurred to me. I'm not sure how we'd handle bill-paying responsibilities... for the past 20 years, neither of us has had our own accounts, everything has been pooled.

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

Yeah, dunno if there's a way to make that work, years back, Chris and I have had more disparate incomes and arranged sort of a "standard monnthly transfer" but it wasn't a budgetary limit, just a regular flow of money. But your situation might be quite different, hard to say.