Snags in the Stream

I've learned that life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.  (Homer Simpson)

Before we left Minnesota, I wrote out some affirmations regarding the move and one of them said something like, "What if this move goes more smoothly than I could possibly imagine?"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  Oh, you poor sweet summer child.

About the only thing that's gone smoothly during any of this is that the plane didn't crash.  Which was quite important, to be sure, but the Universe is certainly making us pay for it now.

We needed an Ireland phone number to be able to sign up for some programs, so we got new SIM cards for our cell phones this past weekend.  Some of our accounts (Bank of America credit card, etc.) only allow you to enter a US phone number so when they need to send a verification code to my phone, they send it to my US cell phone number.  Not helpful.

Eli's company now uses Remote Desktop (HHS peeps, I'm sure you can commiserate with him since that program is crap), and they've gone to multi factor identification.  So when he tried to log in for work yesterday, it wanted to send a code to his US phone number.  When he tried to get in to change the phone number to his Ireland number....it wanted to send a code to his US phone number.  He finally wound up contacting IT and they were able to help.

They don't sell Patrick's preferred wet food here - can't even get it via Amazon UK - so we've been struggling trying to find a wet food he'll eat.

We're having the worst time trying to get a bank to respond to our requests to open a new account here.

I saw an article today in TIME magazine that millions of Social Security Numbers got hacked, and there was a site you could visit to see if your number were on the list.  Yup, both my SSN and Eli's were on the list, so that's wonderful news.

I'm sure there are more examples but my brain isn't coughing them up at the moment.

I will be grateful when we can get all of our accounts transferred here and stop having to deal with these snags.