New Posts

What to post? I have a friend who stopped posting in January. In the post, she promised that she would be back on but that was not to be. It is hard to keep posting. Sometimes life is not that exciting.
Do you want to read about the e-mails that I sent, not very exciting I am sure. The tennis that I will play. I am okay but nothing great. Will not win any championships. I do have fun and as long as I am able to play a good game will continue. Need to exercise which is my main motivation.
I can tell you about the cleaning that I am doing. I am actually getting somewhere with it. Hard to believe that I promised myself that I would do a real serious cleaning when I retired. Well that did not happen. Have been too busy just enjoying myself and getting other things done. However, I have started doing some serious cleaning and will get to really getting things done over the next while especially when it gets cold and I do not want to go outside unless it is to shovel snow. Oh don't start too soon.
Getting the tires switched starting next week. Don't want to be caught in a line-up when the snow comes.
Will try to find more interesting things to write about.
Hope that all of you have exciting lives.

Bank fees

Finally, someone is on the same page as I am. This morning, as I was watching the Sunday Morning show, one of my guilty pleasures one of the commentators complained about bank fees. In particular, she was commenting on debit cards and the fees that Bank of America is going to charge. Apparently, the bank is going to charge $5 per month to use debit cards. Now, that is not fair since the charge is to access your own money. How is that fair. I have always felt that it does not make sense for banks to be charging you to access your own money. I was first introduced to this concept over 35 years ago before it was even introduced and when VISA was actually chargex. At the time, I commented that it did not seem right to have the charges.
Wonder if customers are going to react or blindly just use the card and pay the fees.

Moosejaw

We are back from our travels. The last little while we have been travelling: went to Massachusetts for a conference and then once we had returned and had a little break, it was off to Stratford to see the Grapes of Wrath. That was an excellent production. We actually decided that we would go to Stratford in the future instead of Kingston since we found an excellent Indian food restaurant.
Home and then off to Moosejaw. We can now say that we have only one province left to visit. Can you believe that we have visited 9 of the 10 provinces. We might just have to visit Manitoba without a reason such as a conference.
Moosejaw was interesting. Population is 36,000 and the residents consider it a city. Hardly in my opinion. Places with a population base so small in Ontario are classified as towns.
Enjoyed visiting the Museum of Transportation- interesting that they had an Indian Motorcycle which was manufactured in Springfield, Massachusetts which we had visited a couple weeks before. At the museum in Springfield, there were many Indian Motorcycles. Also visited the Art gallery which was very small. And then did a walking tour of the historic buildings which were not even 100 years old. Nice buildings.
Looking forward to more adventures.