Life---ya gotta love it
First of all---I went to the "freezer" this morning and I am now dotted and smeared by multiple spots, some large and most small, of frozen tissue which will now fall off in a trail behind me---may the birds enjoy the scraps 
I have to go back in 4 weeks but should be good to go---until my next check up in one year 
I told the young lady that was possibly optimistic---I try to renew my subscriptions for 6 months
Then---I just got off the phone with "my banker" at Wells Fargo. Just the concept makes me chuckle. Years ago I had a "banker". He had also been my parents "banker" and had been born and raised on a farm next to our home farm. By the time he became my "banker" he was a VP, but I never thought of him as "my banker" he was just Charlie to me
I recall a time in the early 50's, on a Saturday afternoon when my Father called Charlie at home to tell Charlie he had just bought another farm (at auction) that morning and had less than $200 in the checking account---a fact made known to my Father by my Mother when he told her what he had just done
Let me assure you, that there is nothing in the DNA of a proper Mennonite lady that prevents their venting their emotions with gusto
Anyway---the bank deal was done on the phone. Monday morning the check was covered and a few days latter Charlie came by with the papers.
Now fast forward to today---I again have a banker---it isn't Charlie (Charlie has passed), it isn't the same bank (which has also passed)----and not simply because I am a customer, not because I've know the guy my entire life, not because my family and me have done business for generations with this bank---simply based on a "mathematical hurdle" which qualifies me to be assigned a "personal banker"
So, I called Charlie's replacement this morning, about a letter I had recently received from the current bank, which left me a bit concerned---mostly because the letter had failed to convey any comprehensible information. It was a full page of "words"---words that I suspect were joined together by a marketing guy and a lawyer with the full intent of not saying anything of value---a goal they fully achieved.
I give Joel (Charlie's replacement) credit---we shared a honest belly laugh as we began talking about this "word missal", aimed clearly at the English language. As it turns out, the camouflaged message encrypted into this "word missal" was to give me fair warning that beginning in June the title on top of the statement will change the name of one of the checking accounts from one meaningless name to another meaningless name, yup----that's all folks
Pity the poor folks that received that "word missile" and are without a "Charlie"
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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