Something really strange happened to me this week. I was going over mycredit card statement and there were four separate transactions listedwith a architectural magazine. I knew that I never subscribed to such amagazine ( especially since I am a computer scientist, not anarchitect ), so I gave them a call.

However, what I found was very surprising.

It turns out that these were not charges but credits. Somehowthe magazine was alerted that someone had tried to charge four giftsubscriptions on my credit card. So, they immediately canceled theorders and credited my card for the four charges.

The funny thing was that I was never charged for those amounts, sosomehow the magazine mistakenly thought that I was changed and give meabout $300, free. I called them up to let them know the error that theyhave made, but they said that everything was fine according to theirrecords.

It’s kindof funny to get my statement and see that I have a negativebalance, meaning that the credit card technically owes me money

I initially thought this week wouldn’t be very busy, but school neverfails to find something to fill up my time . I have a large groupproject due this week ( it seems like I have one of those every week )so I’ve been staying up late working on that.

Today’s foxtrot comic really expresses the way I feel right now. Needmore sleep

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Oh, and while we’re on the topic of comics, I saw a great Dilbertcomic, too which is also attached below.

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