Friday 4th July 2025, 21:30
Had a slightly unpleasant episode today regarding a payment from my bank. My two eldest sons still live at home so we share the costs of food, electricity, etc,. by sending each other emails saying what we spent in the preceding month. We divide the totals by three and pay to each others bank accounts. Because my side of it has more and larger transactions I include the list of relevant transactions in my email just in case I make a mistake and include something that is mine alone. I generate this semi-automatically with a some scripts on my laptop.
We've been doing this for several years without any problems but today i got an email from No. 2 son querying one of the items. When I looked at it I realized that I didn't recognize it either. So I logged in to my bank and looked at what the bank calls the details of the transaction. That wasn't enlightening, it just repeated the useless words that were in the statement. So I used the chat function on my bank's web site to ask about it but the woman on the other end couldn't provide any more information about to whom the payment was made and said the bank simply didn't have any more. Sounds bonkers to me. She was able to provide a fairly exact point in time though.
But the breakthrough came when it belatedly dawned on me that I really do use SW as a diary. So I looked at the entry for the day in question and immediately understood what it was. I feel rather foolish for not thinking to look there straightaway.
