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Getting the bills done is an intermittent activity around the Consortium, largely because I use PayTrust<\/a> to manage about 95% of our billpaying, which means the urgency of getting to the remaining 5% drops significantly (which usually means I get in trouble when something goes wrong with the process — a new account, something that has to be handled manually, etc.).<\/p>\n

But I usually feel a great deal of triumph and self-righteous virtue when I actually do get done with whats been clogging the bill box.<\/p>\n

The karmic reward I got from the effort (which took most of the afternoon) was discovering, in examining the checking account, that I had received a very nice little bonus from the company, which was both unexpected and which I never received any notification of from anyway. <\/p>\n

Which is both a nice surprise, and a good way for the universe to encourage me to do my bills more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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