I opened up the new bank account this morning, with a great local branch of Hancock Whitney.

Lola was as great as a lady named Mylola should be, and set me up exactly as I needed, with a wonderful smile on her face throughout. Her husband and 10 and 20 year old sons are very lucky.

So am I, it's great to have a new account, one who's last four digits add up to my angel number of 23.

When I got home I set up bank account access to everything. The next step was to change my Social Security direct deposit from my bank in Idaho, where it's been since I started SS sixteen years ago, to here.

I attempted to make the change online, but our government has out sourced it's security to an outfit called Login, which demanded a six digit number to proceed, with no way to get one.

Then I discovered that we have a local SS office, which I called and quickly talked to a real person, based here in Pensacola. Using the old routing numbers off my Idaho checks and the new ones Lola wrote down for me, he made the change smoothly.

My SS is now coming to my new bank and it may make it by the end of the month. If not I'll transfer it here and shut down my old account in the process.

One more, nearly final step, towards becoming a Floridian.