I'm just thinking out loud here.

Okay, I did my laundry and bought fruit and washed some dishes. Soon I'll need to get dinner started, and I could probably stand to get the makings of some bread queued up. I also need to talk to Fonda about carpool schemes, so I'd better send an email. Need to figure out what time I'm getting up tomorrow and get my gear all gathered (including passport and checkbook and weird stuff like that). And I'd like to have some coffee in the house and I'm out of peanut butter, so maybe I should bike to the co-op.

And I'd really like to do some writing, too. Maybe I'll bang on those delayed book posts for a while.

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My bank got shut down by the FDIC about a month ago! Yes, it is still weirding me out. Mom talked to someone who works there (I guess her kid is one of their patients), and it sounds like it went down exactly like they described in that This American Life episode, with the financial SWAT team and everything.

Wanna know something weird? I've had an account at the same bank for over twenty years. That's longer than I've had pretty much anything. (I guess my clock radio is nearly 20 years old by now. Okay, fine, I have lots of random stuff from when I was a kid. Stop confusing the issue!) My parents opened a savings account for me there when I was tiny (at that time, it was called First Community Bank, which, I actually still have deposit slips with that on them—also, isn't it weird that they have their old TLA back again now that they got bought? ANYWAY—), and I stayed with them when I got my first checking account at 16. I opened an additional account at US Bank when I went to college 'cause I needed something with branches in both MN and WA (and now OR), but I kept the Venture accounts as my "main" ones because I consider US Bank to be somewhat evil. (They may have gone under, but at least Venture never made a habit of sending me reams of sleazy credit card and life insurance offers.)

Anyway, now that I'm committed to not moving back to Oly, those accounts are less useful than they've ever been, and I'm not interested in doing all my banking at US, convenient ATMs or no. Maybe this is a good time to find a local bank in Portland. Perhaps a credit union this time, or something.

Does anyone here do their banking in Portland? Who should I look at?