It hasn't been a good day...

[jay]

No net access, until I finally figured out where to buy a prepaid card to use a local wireless net, so I'm far behind. Three or four urgent queries at work. Problems with drill shipping. And the bank that handles the rent payments can't accept my NASA-issued credit card, and NASA issues minimal cash advances for travel. So I have to somehow come up with another $900-equivalent in cash before we check out on Friday. On top of this, ATMs have mysteriously stopped accepting my cards. Sigh. This morning, for 2+ hours I was driving around trying to find someplace to give me a credit card cash advance... instead of actually being *at the conference*.

Over lunch today, I went clothes shopping with dangerpudding and tenacious_snail... why? Because of laundry disasters. Apparently, some previous tenants who did not understand Spanish were trying to consolidate remnants of laundry supplies, and poured their remaining bleach into the liquid laundry detergent bottle. And we used it. The first time, only a tiny amount with light-colored things, and no problem. The next... three shirts, pants and socks ruined, including the pants I'd just gotten at Nancy's. We thought it was something in the dispenser, so drained it. Next load... I had a rust streak on some pants, Les is pretreating while holding over the washer... and yells for me. Big light spots are appearing on the clothes below, from drips. My dress pants, more socks and some of her clothes are ruined. Sigh. So, clothes shopping over lunch.

On top of this, patgreene is sick, at home...

Comments

[cortneyofeden.livejournal.com]

Did you call the credit card company and bank, telling them you'd be out of the country? If not, the not accepting your ATM card is one of those "to help/protect you" type services.

::hug:: Hope the rest of the trip goes well, and that you find fantabulous clothes to replace the damaged ones.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'd called them all before I left the US. Turns out one was offline, another said that last month's payment was $20 short (I have automated payments set up) and so it was frozen.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

and my credit card had a problem with its magnetic strip.