[2003.08.15 2003h]

   [music] daft punk \\ digital love

i have two accounts at a bank that i rarely ever go to.  they contain
assets that i have saved up in case of a severe emergency.  so i conduct
very few transactions there due to the very nature of the accounts.

the bank recently contacted me about these accounts.  apparently, their
statuses had been changed to "inactive", and the bank wanted to make sure
that they still had my contact information.  apparently, if an inactive
account is not made active, it will eventually go into dormant status, and
then possibly be escheated.  all in all, this sounds pretty reasonable.

however, apparently, in order to activate my accounts again, i have to
physically visit the bank and conduct a transaction on each of the
inactive accounts.  to me, this seems somewhat absurd, as since i would
think that some form of acknowledging your existence would have been
enough to avoid your property from being escheated.  however, simply
acknowledging your existence over the phone didn't seem to be enough.  
neither, apparently, was simply conducting an online transaction.

it's not as if i felt indignant over the matter.  as since i was near that
bank this afternoon, i just dropped by and and transferred some funds from
one account into the other.  i only mention it since it seems to me as if
the requirement to be physically present at a bank, doing a transaction
using little slips of paper, in order to keep assets that you entrusted to
the bank from being taken away from you, seems rather excessive.

as an aside, when filling out one of the forms, i accidentally wrote
"dollard" instead of "dollars".  on the us english qwerty keyboard layout,
the 's' key is right next to the 'd' key, so if the error was a typo, it
would have been easily understandable.  however, as since i was filling
out this form by hand, i'm not sure how the error occurred.