Getting Back to Real Life
Aug. 15th, 2023 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fauxkloreI am finally more or less recovered from traveling for nearly a month (a 25 day trip, which I left on only a couple of days after a 5 day trip). So I have a lot of catching up to do.
Expect to see several entries over the next couple of weeks, though I also have a short trip (4 days) coming up shortly.
One quick annoyance today had to do with an investment. I have two brokerage accounts for various reasons. There's one stock in both accounts. Both brokerages sent me thick prospectuses (prospecti?) re: an opportunity associated with this stock. Brokerage A had a cover letter telling me the deadline to reply to them was August 16th, but, when I tried to act on it, they told me the deadline had been the 14th. That was in an email they sent, but I assumed the letter that accompanied the prospectus was correct. Brokerage B had a deadline of the 17th, but made it difficult to figure out how to act on it. In the end, I managed to do this with a phone call, but it was annoying that I couldn't do it on their website (which is poorly designed in several ways). This also included the annoyance of having to listen to their ad for a credit card reward program.
Expect to see several entries over the next couple of weeks, though I also have a short trip (4 days) coming up shortly.
One quick annoyance today had to do with an investment. I have two brokerage accounts for various reasons. There's one stock in both accounts. Both brokerages sent me thick prospectuses (prospecti?) re: an opportunity associated with this stock. Brokerage A had a cover letter telling me the deadline to reply to them was August 16th, but, when I tried to act on it, they told me the deadline had been the 14th. That was in an email they sent, but I assumed the letter that accompanied the prospectus was correct. Brokerage B had a deadline of the 17th, but made it difficult to figure out how to act on it. In the end, I managed to do this with a phone call, but it was annoying that I couldn't do it on their website (which is poorly designed in several ways). This also included the annoyance of having to listen to their ad for a credit card reward program.
