Not that anyone at Key is paying attention, but the New Posts button doesn’t seem to be working. Several of the forums say there is a new post, but I never see anything when I click on the link to be taken to the newest posts.

It’s not just you … … but on the plus side, we still have our delightful selection of smiley faces!

I don’t know how it works in the UK, but in the US many companies will sell you an “umbrella” policy which is basically excess liability coverage, at $1 million, for a fairly small premium. The coverage limits are generally very broad.

Businesses loveeeeeeeeeeeeee Direct Deposit because they rely on people’s innate inability to keep track of things long term.

Which means that, yes, you’ll keep paying for it until you notice you don’t want it anymore. Which can be years. That’s also why businesses loveeeeeeeeeeeeee autorenewal. They can sponge off you for months or years because the money gets sucked out of your bank account automatically, no human hand involved.

Sigh … note to Key … when there’s a 30-60 second lag before anything happens when you hit the Post button, and you think What the hell??? and hit Post again, you’re going to get a lot of double posts.

On the other hand, that’s a good way to boost your forums total post count.

£2M to fix the old gal … heck, TIGHAR’s spent more than that looking for Amelia Earhart. About $8 million US more. What a shame.

TIGHAR’s bouncing-ball membership numbers just keep getting … bouncier! Now that we have the 2017 numbers (finally) and 2018, here’s an update (in all cases the ‘volunteer’ line from the IRS forms:

• 2009 – 600
• 2010 – 600
• 2011 – 600
• 2012 – 1,100 No explanation for this 500 member jump.
• 2013 – 1,000
• 2014 – 1,000
• 2015 – 1,000
• 2016 – 1,000
• 2017 – 0  Nope, not making this up. Beyond odd.
• 2018 – 200

At the end of the day, though, the trend seems to be going down. Rather steeply.