Remember that we went to go see The Two Towers soon after it came out? Well, originally, the ticket-drone gave Stevie the wrong day, so he had to exchange the tickets. When he went to do that, instead of crediting our card for the old tickets and issuing new tickets, they charged us for the returned tickets, then charged us again. Because we bought for a group of us (10 people total), we were over charged $200.
But wait! you say. How does that add up to a $500 loss?
Because the theatre accountants are morons, and re-ran every credit card purchase that occurred that day twice. So our $100 ticket buy turned into a $600 ticket buy.
We got $300 back so far, but the other (original) $200 haven’t come through yet. <sigh>
At least I got paid today. And I’m enormously happy that we have an emergency fund. It more than covered this little adventure, thankfully.
On the work front, things are going quite well. I’m working on things I can’t talk about, of course, but that’s just how it goes. It comes in fits and starts.
We had gremlins at the office last week. Roof leaks, two of the A/C units went out (including one in the server room), the icemaker died. We pissed off some god of cooling and water or something. Eventually, suspicion came around to the adorable new plush Cthulhu that I have on my desk. Perhaps our new elder god was displeased someow? So we set him up with a little altar in the corner – candles, plastic spiders, and a shot of tequia – all the evil stuff we could find around the place. The A/C didn’t come back, but the icemaker now works and the roof leak went away. Seems like there must be some sort of connection there!
