Sidewinder

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Did my first-ever trades on Fidelity these past coupla days. The central dilemma facing humankind today is: Schwab does not give you confirmation numbers when 'lectronically moving funds externally. They DO give you order numbers when you place a brokerage type order. Fidelity DOES give you confirmamation numbers when 'lectronically moving funds; however, they appear NOT to give you a order number. At least if they do it's not as saliently displayed as it is on Schwab's site. Also I have to give Schwab points for having a mobile site with a well-designed user interface. I'm finding Fidelity's to be way less intuitive and more annoying. Yes, I only just started using Fidelity so I'm sposedta give time for me to get used to it, but my point is that Schwab's didn't take any getting-used-to; it's been pretty seamless & well-oiled from the start. Also my cash earns returns there as well, dividends on some fund Schwab has or something. Point is I was wrong to say this was an edge for Fidelity; they're level on this one. Also I made like $900 on SMCI stock in just the past 36 hours so I'm having trouble staying teed off at anyone.

Which, is what I said basically.

Receipts schmeipts.

A generation or two ago, the thing you were SUPPOSED to do with receipts from transactions where a credit card was used was to store yes STORE the receipts somewhere safe until your credit card statement came in the mail. Then you would audit the statement against the receipts and either find no discrepancies, or find yes discrepancies and then call the CC company and proceed thence. Many things have changed: Card transactions are wayyyy more common, people are carrying a greater quantity of cards, online banking privies you to whatever info the bank has on your transaction without you having to wait for your statement. I have a billion credit cards, too many debit cards, and thus a sea of receipts that I'm clueless about how to handle. Do you have an organizational system for managing yours?

This is the part that throws me:

Yesterday morning in the Philadelphia airport I encountered a BofA ATM that tajes deposits. Most airport-situated ATM's don't do that. (I'm not high but still ...this is on my mind.) ( : / )

Welp. That's it. No more posting while high.

are Sinclair, Marathon, BP, Mobil, Cenex, Minnoco, Phillips 66 (Nebraska), Conoco (Colorado), Chevron (New Mexico), Alon (also New Mexico) Sunoco (Ohio), and Citgo (New York). I'm not certain if it got filled up at a Irving station in New England (pretty sure it did), or a Hess station there, or a 76 station out west. Disorientingly, I don't know if I ever brought it to the Amoco station in Plymouth, or the ARCO station in Greenwood. It's weird if I didn't, since those are totally local. (More stations should be Texaco-branded (seeing that BP is doing excellent work reviving the Amoco brand).) (EDIT: Also, last week when I made a list of all the Mobil stations I'd been to, I forgot the one in Isanti. (See, I've been to the one in Isanti.))

Fraid so. It's weird because I brought it home from Brainerd, stopping at the Dollar General in Royalton, stopping at the architecturally significant post office in Little Falls, stopping for a celebratory I-now-have-a-Corvette meal at the Chick-fil-A in St. Cloud, and successfully started the darn thing without a thought. How did I suddenly start missing it? (Also I now need gears in the headlight motor assembly replaced. Welcome to C5 ownership, I guess.)

Welp. I just opened a brokerage account at Fidelity. See, a thing that bothers me about Schwab is that when you do a external transfer of funds, you do not get a confirmamation number; just a "Thanks, we're processing your transfer." I prefer nay require a confirmation number if only because that's a space on my spreadsheet and I can't be having blank spaces on the Sidewinder's Finances spreadsheet. So I opened a piddling little account at Fidelity, and moved $100 in from an account at a different financial institution, for which I received a confirmation number, see. Furthermore, the cash part of a Fidelity brokerage account earns interest. Schwab's prospects for holding onto my brokerage business are pretty dim now, I must say. : /

Took it for a spin on Monday; also got it its first fill-up since it became mine. I went to the Amoco station in Plymouth (even though I like the one in Stillwater better). Was kinda surprised it holds >15 gallons.

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