Money and Weather

Did you know that you can deposit checks by taking photos and submitting them through mobile banking apps? Absolute life saver for us because we were in a fun predicament where we had physical checks in the US and no easy way of depositing them. We learned the hard way that you have to physically go into a bank to setup wire transfers (for the initial transfer), that's hard to do from 1000s of miles away.

I have a proper UK credit card now! Full with a PIN number and "contactless". The PIN number is required for all transactions and it keeps the card quite secure. Contactless is amazing because you literally just waive the card and money disappears :) I was able to easily add my wife to the account, so she should receive a card soon too - hopefully all on the same account.

The states have had quite a bit of snow lately. I was talking to a professor friend at Harvard and he seemed genuinely surprised that I knew about their upcoming weather. I get it, I'm sure he has very little idea of what the weather will be in London tomorrow, but there is some global awareness and interest, or maybe just a lot of communications going on. It was such an interesting feeling to be on the other side of the surprise.