The inescapable sucking ooze...

...that is JP Morgan Chase and so many others. I awoke to hear that yesterday the bank that has our mortgage and savings, Washington Mutual, was bought by Chase. Just last year, I had closed my accounts at Chase and switched to WaMu as they like to be called, gag, since I was sick of their impersonal fee-laden New York intrusive dumbness. This was after they bought Bank One who'd combined with NBD Bank, after taking over First Chicago, which had been around since roughtly 1864 and is no more.

And don't even get me started on the Marshall Field's demise...

How big can these Jabba the Hut corporate things get and why is there no escape? It's like the whole AT&T (sorry, they like lower case now) thing, gosh, it used to be Illinois Bell and then Ameritech and then SBC and now at&t again, just like we used to have for long distance. And their fees, too, keep going up. Text messaging on prepaid cellular went from 5cents/msg last year to 15cents in one go! Gosh, that's a 300% increase. Now it's going up another 5cents. All of this may seem petty to folks with unlimited plans, but I, and many others like me, don't make $100+ of cell calls a month to need such plans. Anyway.

Back to work and a nice cup of healthy green tea. END RANT...