Got a call last week from my credit card company

[BOSSHOG]

Did you use your credit card at a casino in New Jersey? NO. What a pain. Credit Card Company on it. New Card. Charges cancelled. Now I’m trying to make right the automatic payments. I often get computer usage anxiety. I made that up (I think) but it’s real for old people. Sometimes I’m afraid to touch any button on a financial website thinking I’ll end our life as we know it.

What the hell, the Phillies won tonight. I’ll drink to that.

[MLAA]

1. I hear you, what a pain. Good night for baseball!

Diamondbacks just took the lead over Atlanta 16 to 13 in the top of the ninth.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Phillies are gonna be fun to watch right to the end

Not like the 1964 end.

[MLAA]

10. Ok, you got me I'll cheer for the Phillies along with the Dbacks.

[BOSSHOG]

21. I'm kinda an obnoxious Phillie Fan

Is there any other kind? But they really are fun to watch this year. Schwarber started off three games this year with a first pitch homer. And trea turner is a ballerina at short. Pitching is kinda hard on the fans. And they got the best mascot and best uniforms. Told ya I’m obnoxious. Enjoy all the games you watch my friend.

[MLAA]

23. Love baseball.

DBs won last night in Atlanta after getting swept by Toronto. Final was 16 to 13. Cheer harder Phillies tied bottoms of the 6th. The Brewers manager, Craig Counsell was a long time Diamondback way back when. Great utility player.

[TexasTowelie]

2. It's called technophobia

and I think everybody over the age of 55 had it or has it. By coincidence, I had a disputed charge appear on my debit card so I'm going through the process of updating my information.

[BOSSHOG]

6. I'm happy with my credit card company

Crime doesn’t pay with them.

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. Thank a liberal democrat for credit card companies not being allowed to charge you

when fraud happens.

If the GOP was in charge of this stuff you and we would be on the hook for everything.

[BOSSHOG]

9. Ain't it intensely clear

The differences between the factions.

[soldierant]

17. Mine is also good that way.

I'vee had it happen a few times. It's annoying as all get out, butit hasn't affected my credit score. I use my bookmarks to keep together all the links I need to update automatic payments. BTW I'm - gee, I was going to say I'm 77, which is true, but in 2 weeks I"ll be 78. We seniors can handle it.

[BOSSHOG]

22. An Early Happy Birthday to you Soldierant.

I’m on the precipice of 70, and still doing good physically. I’m cool, calm and collected except for computer crime.

[soldierant]

31. **

[Tetrachloride]

3. go to your bank or library to help on automatic payments

good luck

[BOSSHOG]

7. Thanks very much. We are muddling through.

NASAs 65th birthday is coming up. We lived down the road from Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Totally professional organization. Loved those rocket scientists.

[MLAA]

11. Did you watch the movie Hidden Figures? It was amazing. Brought me to tears.

I went to engineering school in the late seventies so I felt a kinship with the women in the movie and I also worked for IBM who provided the first mainframe to NASA which was in the movie.

[brush]

16. Great movie. Shows what those brilliant, Black women had to go thru.

Catherine Johnson did the actual calculations by hand of John Glenn's flight trajectory...better than the computer. Amazing.

[MLAA]

20. Amazing.

[BOSSHOG]

24. Yes we did

And we got the book, have yet to read it. Glad such work and achievement finally gets recognized. And thanks for your assist with the space program. I did a 2,200 hundred piece Lego of a space shuttle and the hubble telescope. Proudly displayed in our NASA room.

[MLAA]

25. Wow, 2200 piece space shuttle. What are the dimensions of that marvel?

[BOSSHOG]

27. 22 inches long, 14 inch wing span

Most of the pieces are internal and unseen.

I had a great time doing it. Took me about three months. 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there. I found it almost therapeutic. You gotta be on your toes keeping up with the parts.

[Joinfortmill]

4. 👍

[1WorldHope]

12. I've spent every moment of the last 3 days trying to undo

what may or may not have been compromised by using the same password on 93 apps. Don't do what I have done. 🤮

[BOSSHOG]

28. I get my passwords out of the real estate and obituary section of the newspaper.

No connection to me, that I know of.

I got each one on a 3x5 card locked in a safe in the basement. They only come out when I need them. I got about 30.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. That happened to me a year or two ago, scared me, too, besides being a PIA

The bank guy I spoke with couldn't have been more helpful, deleted the bogus charge (In CA and I'm in New York!) and told me that the most common places cards are compromised are at gas stations. But I told him that I always pay cash for gas (it's a few cents off a gallon at Sunoco) so the only place I could figure it happened was at the car wash, so I've been reluctant to go there since.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. I totally feel your pain, Boss!

[BOSSHOG]

26. It's easing

I get the impression that the credit card companies have the gloves off dealing with this nonsense.

[BigmanPigman]

15. I have one credit card for this reason.

I can't feel confident with tech and $$$ and do not trust anyone or anything at this point in my life. I have had the same credit card for over 20 years and they call ME when they see large purchases. They never charge me for anything that was bought without my knowledge. It has only happened once, I am happy to say.

[airplaneman]

18. I am with you having only one credit card and I refuse to use debut due to the stricter rules. n/t.

[BigmanPigman]

19. It is easy to keep track of too.

I have a spare one in my closet but that is for a backup emergency situation (like a lost wallet). I lived in New York City in the late 70s/early 80s and crime was really bad. I only carried what I could afford to lose but my father always advised me to keep a $10, and not the $5 I planned. His theory was that if the muggers don't get a little something they could get pissed off.

[Igel]

29. Yeah, I've bounced back and forth between cards for that.

Finally came up with a list of payments through CC. When one's screwed, I flip everything to the other the same day--and have to change one word in my list: "Billed to __________ card: < then the list >."

Feel the need to have at least two CC just for that. One's cancelled, it can take a few days to learn your new number and payment can bounce.

[BOSSHOG]

30. Criminals can hurt us from thousands of miles away.

Relative to personal finances computers unnerve me.