credit freeze

After the three of us had put in our most recent (and successful) application for a lease, and cattitude and adrian_turtle mentioned having unfrozen their credit reports for the purpose, and then re-frozen them afterwards, I realized that I should do likewise, which meant creating three accounts.

Experian was straightforward.

The Equifax site kept telling me "invalid email address." Either they don't believe in my ISP, or their system assumes that nobody has a two-letter username. Panix isn't a huge ISP, but it's not a single-user vanity domain, and I'm far from the only Panix user with a two- or three-leter username. So, I have an Equifax account using my gmail address.

The TransUnion website had a weird bug on the sign-up page, with blank white space instead of either a pull-down menu or a text field for "state" in the address. I tried switching browsers, to no avail. I tried again the next day, still nothing.

This morning they had fixed that bug, so I signed up and froze my credit there as well.

tired

I am significantly more tired, mentally as much as physically, than I expected to be right now, and I'm hoping that some of this is a delayed reaction to the trip to get the monoclonal antibodies last Thursday, because I won't be doing that again for several months, if at all.

Also, I spent two nights at adrian_turtle's in the past week, traveling once by Lyft and once by MBTA bus, with a side trip on the way home to buy ice cream. (The Harvard Square Lizzy's is a couple of blocks from the Harvard Square busway.)

At least I recognized that I was mentally tired by being repeatedly distracted from writing a chatty email, not because I was making mistakes, or dropping anything other than Scrabble tiles.