Welcome to 2001, UGI

UGI Utilities has finally implemented online bill payment. For the last two years, the UGI bill has been the only monthly expense I had to write a check for -- everything else, from the phone to daycare to the mortgage, is paid online (and, in fact, automatically).

This cuts my time spent on monthly bills to almost nil -- just an occasional check of the checking account to make sure no one has stolen my identity and my money, and a few minutes here & there tweaking the Excel spreadsheet. Plus, thanks to autopay, I'm never late on any payments. That's a big plus for someone with a tendency to procrastinate like me.

The only downside is that I'm pretty much locked into the bank I have my checking account at -- I can't imagine the hassle involved with changing over the various autopays.

But, that's a small concern; overall I'm just glad that I've finally, in 2008, gotten back to point I was at in 2001 before I left the Bay Area and struck out for the less tech-savvy parts of the country I've lived in since. Now if someone could just figure out a way to bring back Webvan...