Banks and Barbells…
Posted on: Saturday, May 6th, 2006 at 5:39 pmRead more about Gym Stories, The State of New Jersey
Every once in a while I like to change things up a bit.
Now that school’s pretty much over, I’m spending just a little bit more time on my web design business, Usable Web Solutions. One of the big steps that I had to take was opening up a bank account. I managed to do this yesterday, but I didn’t use my current bank, Commerce. If you go and look at their business checking options, they SUCK!
As a matter of fact, all of the banks in New Jersey offer shitty business banking. For some reason they all require minimum balances that are way too high and don’t give you enough options to make the account even make sense. Sovereign is the only bank that offers a completely free business checking account, so I changed up my banking from Commerce to Sovereign…for business only.
If this turns out to be a good relationship, then I might pull my personal accounts out of Commerce and send them to Sovereign, so we’ll see what happens.
As far as barbells go, I am going to attempt to change gyms over the course of the summer. Why over the course of the summer? Because the bastards at the gym that I go to now have enacted a rule that says you have to cancel your membership two months in advance of actually leaving. So I’ll cancel my membership (maybe) tomorrow and still have to pay for the gym through the end of July. Sucks.
The new gym is the new Gold’s Gym located in Long Branch. It costs a little more money and it doesn’t have a pool, but I’ll deal with it. The pool at my current gym was closed for renovations last May and it still hasn’t re-opened. I talked to my current gym today and they said that they think the workers will be back within 30 days. Riiiiiiiiiight…
Of course, Gold’s Gym was having some half-priced offer today, but they didn’t call me back before they closed for the day. So there’s also a good chance that I’m not going to get the good intro rate and get really pissed off and tell them to shove it.
As always, we’ll see what happens.
















