Simply, Sally

Trying to get the car rented is proving to be annoying. The car rental place wants two proofs that we are who we say we are. Apparently mom’s drivers license and card aren’t enough.

There’s just one, teeny problem… After our mail carrier lost our mail for the 3rd time, we moved as many services, bills, and other mailings to paperless as we could. Coincidentally, that leaves just the Charter Cable bill as the last one that’s physically mailed to us.

They finally agreed that our mortgage and the cable bill would work, but they wouldn’t take any of the printed online statements as “proofs.”

I completely understand them needing to verify our identities, but this is really kind of annoying. I would have thought with the sheer number of businesses and organizations that now offer paperless as an option, they’d have policies in place to accommodate that.

After a long conversation, Miro (our Cockatiel) is going to a new home. We hated to have to decide this. He’s 16 years old (they only live 15 – 20) and doesn’t take to changes quite well. Making him stay in his very tiny traveling cage indefinitely just seems very cruel, especially at his advanced age.

Mom started out with an appointment to take him to the local Humane Society… but I decided that wasn’t happening. While I support the work of the Humane Society as a whole, our local office has a reputation that I find disturbing. I found the number to the local Avicultural Society and they put me in touch with the officer in charge of their pet-bird rescue. So they’re coming over in an hour to pick him up.