My payment

Mike, I don't see a payment at PayPal yet. Typically, they credit a merchant with a payment within seconds.

If you want to set up a PayPal account, you give them a bank account number. They send your account a couple of tiny payments - say, 8c and 13c - and then you prove it's your account by telling them what the deposits were. With an account, you can have a balance, and send and receive money.

But if you just want to buy something with a credit card, you don't have to set up an account. You can't *receive* money without an account, but you should be able to pay without one.

Blondie's mood has been up-and-down a lot lately. She's a staunch Democrat, and she was sorta leaning towards Barack until he made that comment in the debate, saying she's likeable enough. That really ticked her off, although being a man, I'm not sure why. She decided they were being mean to Hillary because she was female, and she's been solidly in Hillary's corner ever since.

I'm a conservative independent, registered as a Republican, because if you register Independent, you don't get to vote in the spring. I tried to convince her that they were attacking Hillary as the front-runner, not as a woman, and just about got kicked out on the sidewalk for my efforts.

Then when Bill started playing rough with lying and distortions, she got upset that people were calling him on it. She got really upset when the voting in North Carolina went so heavily for Barack, and the exit polls showed that even the white voters went for Edwards, not for Hillary.

Of course, my theory is that in Nevada and New Hampshire, there were a lot of Republicans voting in an open primary as Democrats for Hillary, because they figure running against her is their only chance for victory this fall. Bill was very careful to point out that Republicans could caucus with the Democrats, then switch back to being Republicans in time to vote in the primaries. I'm sure Hillary's supporters will be aghast at my interpretation, though.

And today, when Caroline, Patrick, and Teddy Kennedy endorsed Barack, she got very upset. "It's not fair, them endorsing her like that." She didn't see anything unfair when Governor Rendell endorsed Hillary last week, but I'm not going to point that out to her; it's *cold* out there on that sidewalk.

So how are we doing here? Blondie is sulking, I'm keeping my yap shut, and Marie is getting a lot of attention. Marie's DOB is April 17, 2002, so she has her 42nd birthday coming up, and we're trying to figure out what to do as a celebration. She is SO affectionate, and having a dog like that is such a blessing when Blondie is upset by the elections.

I wish I were insane

Sanity is just so boring

I think I understand what you're saying. I don't want to receive money, just have the convenience of paying for domania and Amish Hosting services, and maybe buy something online if I want to. I still have to call my credit card and see about the debit and if there is one. It's listed in the account.

I don't know if I can put my bank account number in there, it was so hard putting my soc. security number there. I have a PayPal card now and I could send you the payment again. If I do I hope I live two years :-) Anyway I thought it was an option, choose either the bank account or the paypal card. Well, we'll see.

Sorry you're having such a time because of the politicians. I just had my eyes checked and the man asked if I vote and I said "No". "would you like to?" "Why? they're all crooks".

I've heard that Blondie is one of the nicest people you could hope to meet; near to being an angel. One thing I hope is that we someday rid the government of Clintons. I in a way respect Hillary and think she's very intelligent but then I see she's still with her no good husband and there's something wrong about that. Why didn't she dump him years ago? I think they make a perfect team. He has his fake charisma and she has the smarts. Hillary has been through a lot and so has their daughter because of Bill. I growl when I see either of them on TV.

Paul feel free to delete this post. Come to think of it, isn't there some rule here about no political or religious posts. I don't think we should say what we think about these two subjects because there are many people who think differently.

I'm glad you have a dog and I hope she has a happy birthday. When I was in high school I had an aquarium, when I moved to my own place it went with me. We had it in our first apartment and first house. Then the children came; no more aquaruim. Children grew up, set up the aquaruim again but seems there's different ruls now. Have to chack the PH and remove so water and replace it occasionally. I was working myself to death on the thing and couldn't even find proper plants for it. Anyway, I miss the fish, they're really calming to watch. Sometimes I'm tempted to try again but forget about the ph and stuff. I have no clue where I'm going with this.

We need determined people like Blondie, they make the difference. Now, when someone wants to talk about reincarnation I'll add my bit. When I pass, I'm going to check on all my relatives, then I'm heading for
England. I want to see St.George's Chapel and Westminister (sp) Abbey. Many kings and queens entombed there. Then I'm heading to the Galapagos.

I think this is enough and I'm hungry. Glad I don't post often. This is definately an empty wagon day!

Please ignore the spelling errors.

Mike, I think I found it.

There was a payment on the 21st at 9:18 left-coast time, but the name on the credit card wasn't Mike Moore, it was someone else's name.

I think it would be very hard to enforce a no politics and no religion rule here. Every time someone has a question about their files, and I say they're OK, their first thought seems to be "thank god". And the politics thing is about as difficult.

For instance, a man without health insurance had stomach pain, tried to treat it by *eating* baking soda. He nearly died as a result. We're skirting politics there.

The FCC wants to fine ABC stations a total of $1.43 million for showing a woman's bare butt, saying it's a sexual organ. Do you suppose those FCC members are from the Clinton administration, that didn't know what the definition of "is" is?

Anonymous hackers, trying to take down the Church of Scientology website, goof and take down a site for a Dutch school. Is that politics, religion, or tech?

A police officer at a Florida middle school had a link to a friend's website, who had a link to a site that had a link to a porn site. He's facing a state criminal probe for making porn available to kids. Oops, turns out the school itself had a link *directly* to a porn site. Is that politics, religion, or tech?

And oh, yeah, the Onion had a story about a depressed guy, running for office, who ran an ad attacking himself. Politics, religion, or humor?

But I guess I better shut up before I get myself into REAL trouble.

I wish I were insane

Sanity is just so boring

Paul I think you found it; good!

You have a different take on things than I do; I think you're more well read and knowledgeable.

The FCC/butt thing made me think where's Gloria Allred but then I realize that she's probably not even a part of this; I'm sure the FCC has their own lawyers. Aren't we rather puritanistic in some ways and just plain filthy in others?

The anonymous hackers were probably on drugs (I did say probably) and just got mixed up. The link on the website thing could have happened to anyone, I know. The poor man who ran the ad attacking himself might have just needed rest or maybe a doctor.

So, I'm not as orderly a thinker as you are; I look at things and wonder what's the motive behind it all. Woman's butt? phooey, what's the real reason for this? The man who ran the ad, I'll finally begin thinking he has something to gain from this, it was no accident.

Since I've gotten old or older I don't have much patience. The other evening the doorbell rang and I went to the door. The young guy who'd rang the bell had stepped back off the porch onto the steps, which is the polite way of doing it except it was so cold outside. I motioned with my hands and said "Come on in, it's cold out there". He came in the foyer and had his say. I said "Do you mean you came by at mealtime on this cold, cold night to sell us something to put on our gutters???". He looked at Jeannie, she took the brochure, he left, and the two of us never mentioned what happened. I wonder if that can be catagorized.

I order DVD's for us from Netflix and try to find some educational ones. We just had one about Sir Edmund Hillary's son climbing Mt.Everest, Jeannie wouldn't watch it, afraid of heights (I can understand that). I ordered one about Shackleton taking his men to Antartica (so interesting), she wouldn't watch that or Eight Degrees Below. I can understand the height thing but what's with the snow, ice, and subzero temps?

These last two paragraphs are not on topic, you might not want to take the time. Also the whole post isn't that great,