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On The Table Today:
The formerly very impressive, massive Viking refrigerator is now, we believe, on its last legs.
It freezes things in the fridge section, leaks in the freezer section, needs a new plastic seal ($350), does not stay cold and has been recalled three times for a safety issue. Viking offered to send us a new one for about half price (they replaced it once already). We let that offer expire and are now reconsidering. Our kitchen is built around the size of it which means we cannot (visually) downsize to a "normal" unit (ours is a "professional" size). I am not whining, I am thinking.
Turns out the problems with the fridge are covered under warranty. Not that I believe the customer service rep. So no new fridge!
Because I had cigarettes (six years ago) before my life insurance exam, my premium is higher than it should be. Presently, I tend to have a pack of cigarettes over three days time whilst visiting Chicago, twice a year. Our insurance salesman does not return our phone calls which seems somewhat fair as we have never taken his suggestions when he tries to up-sell us on insurance but which is aggravating me no end.
Yes. No. Thank you.
Can we unplug our cable television? We each have a Blu-ray player which puts the internet on our televisions and our cable bill is expensive. Would we be fine if we only watched things available through Hulu and Netflix and the internet?
SO now we've spent another day analyzing that situation and still have not decided.
What happened to Youngest's phone? I don't think he mishandles it and yet the speaker is shot and the headphone jack no longer functions. It's a year old.
The guys at the (money laundering) cell phone store totally worked out the situation with Youngest's phone and he'll have a new one by the end of the week, free of charge.
Also On The Table: those pears with the blue cheese and honey. Impeccable. Perfect.
I'm off to the phone store with Youngest.
The formerly very impressive, massive Viking refrigerator is now, we believe, on its last legs.
It freezes things in the fridge section, leaks in the freezer section, needs a new plastic seal ($350), does not stay cold and has been recalled three times for a safety issue. Viking offered to send us a new one for about half price (they replaced it once already). We let that offer expire and are now reconsidering. Our kitchen is built around the size of it which means we cannot (visually) downsize to a "normal" unit (ours is a "professional" size). I am not whining, I am thinking.
Turns out the problems with the fridge are covered under warranty. Not that I believe the customer service rep. So no new fridge!
Because I had cigarettes (six years ago) before my life insurance exam, my premium is higher than it should be. Presently, I tend to have a pack of cigarettes over three days time whilst visiting Chicago, twice a year. Our insurance salesman does not return our phone calls which seems somewhat fair as we have never taken his suggestions when he tries to up-sell us on insurance but which is aggravating me no end.
Yes. No. Thank you.
Can we unplug our cable television? We each have a Blu-ray player which puts the internet on our televisions and our cable bill is expensive. Would we be fine if we only watched things available through Hulu and Netflix and the internet?
SO now we've spent another day analyzing that situation and still have not decided.
What happened to Youngest's phone? I don't think he mishandles it and yet the speaker is shot and the headphone jack no longer functions. It's a year old.
The guys at the (money laundering) cell phone store totally worked out the situation with Youngest's phone and he'll have a new one by the end of the week, free of charge.
Also On The Table: those pears with the blue cheese and honey. Impeccable. Perfect.
I'm off to the phone store with Youngest.
Comments
You can totally unplug cable-- you will be fine with Hulu, Netflix, and the internet in general. Also the library has treasure troves of dvds.
My insurance agent wouldn't return my calls either, so I sucked it up and bought insurance (not life, though) through AARP's program. I never have a problem talking to them on the phone(yes, you have to join AARP, but it's cheap, and the insurance is a good deal). Worth checking out, at least.
No idea about phones because we all get by on ancient dumb phones. We don't use phones much anyway-- my kids text and email with their iPods and I use my iPad for that.
It's a lot of stuff for you to sort out but it's all good to do.
My husband's phone (not an iPhone, an LG Dare) did this thing where the headphones made it so the speaker stopped working. He sort of fixed it by just inserting the headphone jack in over and over really fast. It triggered something and corrected.
Good luck! And ps, stop smoking! I did!
jbhat
Totally first world problems, I should shut up.