Thursday, April 21, 2016

Patrick's Diary - 4/20/2016

I am so frustrated now because I just finished my diary for yesterday and published, I even read it on my blog. However, I don't know why it is lost now. Let me briefly recover some of the contents I put it here earlier. I don't have enough energy to rewrite it.

It's been a week for receiving the bills. Comcast updated the monthly bill from $303 to $254, which made me feel better. Their services have satisfied my needs for more than a decade.
Snopud changed their billing cycle to monthly, which triggered me to call the customer services to get my locked online account unlocked. Once upon a time in last year, I was locked out, so had been paying as one-time payor on its website ever since. I never questioned their billed amount shown on the email body every time I received the notification because it seemed always reasonable. This time was different. As expected, I waited for 15 minutes to get through during busy business hours. The customer service rep unlocked my account and told me they had marketed this change for quite a while. I probably didn't pay the attention. 
Waste Management also sent me a link to my online account. I was wondering why the billing was increased by 30 bucks because I remembered the increase should be only 10 bucks for the additional service of yardwaste I added. However, I realized a minute later that was the monthly rate. For the entire 2nd quarter, 30 bucks increase made sense.
I will have to pay all the bills in the next several weeks gradually before each of them hits the due date.

Stock markets performed well in the last two days.

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