Highlights: cleaning air ducts, Home Depot again, Dateline & internet scams
I hired a guy to come clean the heating & air ducts in the house today. I figure it’s never been done in the 20 years this house has been standing. Sure as shootin, the guy somehow extracted 2 full vacuum cleaner bags worth of dust & stuff that has no business being in the vents. At $380 it’s a pricey service- but considering what just came out of the air vents- worth the cost.
(insert air duct video + pics) [4]
After that it was back to Home Depot for round 2. Today’s goal: get the high efficiency new toilet & capitalize on the $75 water voucher the city of San Diego is giving out for qualified toilets. I couldn’t pick up the toilet yesterday, because the water voucher I had in hand for the washing machine wasn’t enough to prove I rate an in-store rebate (voucher) for the toilet. Had to get a separate voucher from the Water Department for that.
Few things make a bathroom experience less pleasant than a bad toilet. Most of my Indonesian friends have no idea what I’m talking about,, as I have yet to hear of a hole in the floor clogging up or not flushing right.. but anyways- my American friends know of what I speak. After shifting rooms in my house, I’ve discovered an old clunker toilet upstairs, which has clogged twice on me in the last week. It’s got to go. Two strikes in this case,,, and it’s gone! (=
I didn’t get out the door fast enough though: one store didn’t have all the toilet parts in stock anymore, but the 2nd store couldn’t accept the voucher in my hand, with the 1st store’s info printed on it, and by the time we figured all this out, the Water Department had closed, again. So I would have to wait until tomorrow, void the old voucher, have a new one faxed, and finish this little song & dance. Whew. If you’re confused now,, this took entirely too many hours out of my day to get sorted straight.
Becca called & prompted me to watch a Dateline TV special on internet scams… I’m facing the eerie possibility that roommate #3 may in fact be one of those scams coming out of Lagos, Nigeria.
This particular scam would have me believe that a fictitious girl named Kelly Brown is ready to move in, and sent a check, which she needs some portion of cashed & wired back to the shipping agent who is sending her stuff to my address. The trick is,,, it would normally take my bank a day or two to figure out if the check is a fake. If I wired money out the same day I deposited the check, that money comes out of my account, the fake check bounces, and I’ll never see or hear from mystery roommate again. Slimy bastards.
Well, a small part of me hopes that there really is a roommate coming, but the signs are pointing more & more towards the glowing neon sign that reads “scam-in-progress”. I’ll just be sure not to send any of my own money before checks clear.
I hired a guy to come clean the heating & air ducts in the house today. I figure it’s never been done in the 20 years this house has been standing. Sure as shootin, the guy somehow extracted 2 full vacuum cleaner bags worth of dust & stuff that has no business being in the vents. At $380 it’s a pricey service- but considering what just came out of the air vents- worth the cost.
(insert air duct video + pics) [4]
After that it was back to Home Depot for round 2. Today’s goal: get the high efficiency new toilet & capitalize on the $75 water voucher the city of San Diego is giving out for qualified toilets. I couldn’t pick up the toilet yesterday, because the water voucher I had in hand for the washing machine wasn’t enough to prove I rate an in-store rebate (voucher) for the toilet. Had to get a separate voucher from the Water Department for that.
Few things make a bathroom experience less pleasant than a bad toilet. Most of my Indonesian friends have no idea what I’m talking about,, as I have yet to hear of a hole in the floor clogging up or not flushing right.. but anyways- my American friends know of what I speak. After shifting rooms in my house, I’ve discovered an old clunker toilet upstairs, which has clogged twice on me in the last week. It’s got to go. Two strikes in this case,,, and it’s gone! (=
I didn’t get out the door fast enough though: one store didn’t have all the toilet parts in stock anymore, but the 2nd store couldn’t accept the voucher in my hand, with the 1st store’s info printed on it, and by the time we figured all this out, the Water Department had closed, again. So I would have to wait until tomorrow, void the old voucher, have a new one faxed, and finish this little song & dance. Whew. If you’re confused now,, this took entirely too many hours out of my day to get sorted straight.
Becca called & prompted me to watch a Dateline TV special on internet scams… I’m facing the eerie possibility that roommate #3 may in fact be one of those scams coming out of Lagos, Nigeria.
This particular scam would have me believe that a fictitious girl named Kelly Brown is ready to move in, and sent a check, which she needs some portion of cashed & wired back to the shipping agent who is sending her stuff to my address. The trick is,,, it would normally take my bank a day or two to figure out if the check is a fake. If I wired money out the same day I deposited the check, that money comes out of my account, the fake check bounces, and I’ll never see or hear from mystery roommate again. Slimy bastards.
Well, a small part of me hopes that there really is a roommate coming, but the signs are pointing more & more towards the glowing neon sign that reads “scam-in-progress”. I’ll just be sure not to send any of my own money before checks clear.
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