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Here’s the latest from Oregon Community Credit Union: The Chief Operating Officer has written me back with a very pleasant, yet unsatisfying, response to my problems and questions. Here is a brief and totally unfair summary of what I wrote and how he responds:
Me: Your junk mail was labeled deceptively.
COO: Whoops. But it was really […]

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After a discussion with Hans a week ago, I decided that DSL service from Qwest would serve me better than Comcast’s cable internet. It was a fairly easy calculation, really. Download rates for my DSL roughly equal the maximum sustained rate I ever observed with cable. (~450 kB/s) And the upload rates for my […]

Although these pictures were taken in a handful of different sessions, the collage still shows how quickly the weather can change in that little head. And these are just the happy faces! Cheryl and I have been trying really hard to capture those really amazing moments when he puts on a big smile, but they […]

The very agreeable and helpful Branch Manager at Oregon Community Credit Union has responded to my e-mail:

Dear Mr. Quady,
Thank you for taking the time to send me an email with your concerns. I appreciate your feedback and your honesty. I have decided to share your email with our Executive Team so they will […]

I received a voicemail from the Branch Manager with whom I spoke last week. It’s down at the end of the post, with her name edited out, if you care to hear it. The gist of it was: OCCU got my name removed from Hartford Insurance’s mailing list, and would you still like to talk […]

Elliot has really started to chatter quite a lot. It’s pretty heavy on the vowels, still, but he’s got the “G” sound pretty much down.

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I have been banking with one of the local credit unions for twelve years or so. It used to be called U-Lane-O, which was a stupid and funky name, but who cares? It was a cool little local organization, and it wasn’t a bank. There were never any surprises on your statement; the fee structures […]