dust settled, Macavity strikes!

I'm at my freshly almost-organized desk in Verdun... we're still weaving among boxes and unassembled or migratory furniture, but the place is starting to feel like home: here I can cook, sleep, work, eat, bathe... the works! It's big enough to give me a little elbow room, and generally bright and comfortable. It's also big enough that I don't know if Noisette has snuck off into the wilds of Verdun or is just hiding behind something: rottenfruit and I can't find her, but there's just a lot of hiding room in an 8½. I hope she gets hungry and either turns up at the door or comes out from whatever crevice she's in (or at least makes some noise so we can pull her out)...

I despise my bank

So, I sign up for e-bills and check the "send me e-mail when bills arrive" option in March. I keep getting enough paper bills to impart a feeling of keeping up, but my phone/Internet bill keeps piling up in my e-bill thing without a single e-mail. Three days before they pull the plug, I call to change some stuff and am informed that they can't do anything until I shovel a heap of money their way.

I pay the CIBC service fees to do stuff like notify me when they recieve e-bills. And maintain branches (they always close the ones close to me soon after I arrive in a neighbourhood). The CIBC can't manage this. I'm switching banks (I'm thinking Desjardins RBC (Desjardins horror stories seem to abound, and there's an RBC right near my place)... any horror stories I should know about?)

In good news, Noisette is back from whatever dimension she was hiding in. Lost cat situation over (for now).