Financials – b.rox

There’s a certain domain name of which I am part owner, the other owner being my friend in Missoula. This domain is a three-letter dot-com and as we all know there are a limited number of those, therefore they have a certain value. I’m not naming the domain here, but I think the perceptive reader […]

Here’s a new one: I got an automated call from eTrade, asking me to call them about my account; checking the website, I saw I have a negative balance of minus one cent — generated by a one cent margin call; I was on hold forever, but when I finally talked to a customer service […]

We got the receipt from Tulane University Hospital & Clinic’s Healthcare Payment System. For the record, we racked up $2,484.00 in room charges (two nights’ stay) and a whopping $16,499.28 in “ancillary” charges. But we have group insurance through our employers. We actually paid $250 and just got billed for $170 more. I can’t even […]

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