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Car Show – Upper Marlboro

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:58:56 +0000

August 23, 2009

Couldn’t get to the Dominos to pick up our pizza because the street was closed; so I parked a block away and had a stroll through the pretty cars. They had a beautiful day for the car show this year. The oldies music was great too.

Impressive Customer Service

admin — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:53:56 +0000

So far I am blown away by the great customer service experienced with Nutrisystem. Their website is very easy to use for customizing my food order and now, after this shipping problem, I am very pleased.

First we are going on a trip next Monday and told them to send our orders 3 days earlier (on the first); so the boxes would arrive well before we left the house. Something went very wrong and one box said shipped on the 4th and the other didn’t go until the 5th. I thought they would have to arrive by Friday to meet our deadline.

I made several phone calls to Nutrisystem support about our two boxes. It seems they were processed very separately and one was sent out FedEx and the other UPS. My FedEx shipment did arrive on Saturday! I didn’t even know FedEx delivered on Saturdays. The other box was inexplicably delayed and didn’t arrive in Pennsylvania until Friday. Our support person, Alyssa, promised she would watch our shipments and help by holding anything that was going to be delivered on Monday or after that. She followed up too… UPS tracking shows that our other box has been returned to Nutrisystem and won’t be coming here on Monday. She will send it again after we return from our trip.

It was a bit of frustration that things did not go as planned, but the quality of service we have experienced in dealing with the problem is ourstanding.

Vacation!

admin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:41:55 +0000

We are getting ready to fly down and visit with Tess in Austin. It will be my second commercial flight ever and I am looking forward to it like a kid anticipating a ride on a new crazy roller coaster.

Trying to get everything ready for the trip. We have been trying out Nutrisystem since the first week of January. I’ve lost 5 pounds and Richard has lost zip! He needs a different diet, but I’m happy with this one.

Anyway, I tried to coordinate the delivery of our next month’s food with our trip departure date. Called Nutrisystem and told them to move our delivery date back from the 3rd to the first of February. Did they comply? Well, on paper they did, but it was February 5 late afternoon when I called them and they told me his had shipped on the 5th and mine was still in the service center. Hopefully his will come today, but as soon as I got off the phone, I got an email telling me that mine had also shipped. There’s no delivery on the weekend (they use FedEx). Now I’m worried about this food coming at a very bad time… worse case it will sit on our doorstep for a week or even worse get stolen. The food is all very well packaged and would easily survive sitting that way (even if it rained). The boxes are big and heavy and I hate to ask a neighbor to take them in. Nutrisystem tells me they can have FedEx hold the boxes for us… we shall see how this plays out.

Got our ticket confirmations, room confirmations, and reserved a rental car. Need to torn off the newspaper and put a hold on our mail. What’s left to do, but check the water’s not left running in the house? I’m ready to get outta here!

More Scam – Wu-Yi

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:39:29 +0000

The older I get it seems I attract the scam. Today it was a surprise box of “Wu-Yi Source” weightloss system tea and pills. I did not order this box.

Now my vast internet experience tells me that there is a shipping fee even for a free trial; so I went to their web site to see what their terms are and how this box might have made its way to my mail box. I have no emails confirming an order of this tea. There is an online chat support thingy; so I chat with the person on the other end. Supposedly this package was ordered on my birthday in December and someone used a credit card ending in 2222 (I don’t have a card like that!). They sent it to my house (whoever they are). If I didn’t cancel the account, their card would be getting hit monthly with $59.99 subscription fees. The support person said it’s fraud and the account is now canceled. I marked the box refused and am returning it to the Wu-Yi people.

Now I am left scratching my head and wondering why someone did this? It profited them nothing, unless it’s to cause havoc on some victim’s credit card account.

Note to Santa

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:26:17 +0000

Evvy wants a kid tough dvd player and Grandpa wants a Blu-Ray player.

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Fisher Price Kid Tough DVD Player Battery

US $19.99 (0 Bid)
End Date: Thursday Mar-11-2010 17:52:53 PST
Buy It Now for only: US $24.99
Bid now | Buy it now | Add to watch list

FISHER PRICE KID TOUGH DVD PLAYER PINK + Headphones NEW

US $129.00
End Date: Friday Mar-12-2010 2:51:48 PST
Buy It Now for only: US $129.00
Buy it now | Add to watch list

BLUE FISHER PRICE KID TOUGH HEADPHONES DVD PLAYER FP3

US $13.95
End Date: Friday Mar-12-2010 7:16:15 PST
Buy It Now for only: US $13.95
Buy it now | Add to watch list

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Which one of these? I haven’t a clue!

Sony BDP-S350 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player

Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-ray Player

Panasonic DMP-BD35K 1080p Blu-ray Player

Parades always make me cry

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:09:48 +0000

It’s difficult for me to explain. Since I was very little, witnessing things like the high school marching band with all those kids working together to make that music and moving together down the street makes me swell up and cry. It’s not sadness, but a kind of joy and pride for the human animal that we can do that. Heck… I don’t have to witness it. It could be something more primal than joy, though. We use the parade for a celebration, but in history, the drums and pipes were used to rouse the troops and lead them into death. Maybe I feel echoes of history in the spirits surrounding a parade. Just thinking about it can make me cry. Bagpipe music makes me cry too, without a parade or a funeral. I wasn’t sensitive to the pipes as a child. That was grown into. It’s the same kind of feeling as when I cry at a wedding. Why should I cry then? It’s not me giving my life away, yet there I am with eyes brimming.

It’s not about whether the parade is “good” or “bad”, but more just the fact that it’s happening and people are putting that concerted effort into it. The fact that anyone put any effort into it shows something. Why do people make parades? Why do people want to be in them? Why do others want to watch them. You will be the judge of whether it’s a good or bad parade and I will just be proud (for some reason) that it happened. I’ll be smiling and crying if I just hear the drums coming in the distance, and know there’s a parade over that way….

Land of the Free and Home of the Brave

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:44:26 +0000

I challenge Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin to tell this grieving mother that her son is anti-American because of his faith.

Text Message Slamming Fraud

admin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:21:49 +0000

Update: I had a BFO today remembering that I answered an online IQ test challenge which indicated to me something about a subscription to which I immediately sent a STOP message as instructed at the bottom. There was a reply telling me that I had no subscriptions at that number… same message I got when I entered my phone number at the number Sprint gave me. So I did supposedly interact with these people, and they told me there was no subscription…twice, but they still billed me for $9.99. There was no warning that this bill was coming and there was no indication when I did the IQ test thing that I would be billed for it…just standard text message fees and my account has unlimited texting; so I thought I was covered.

The IQ test? Well it did seem very easy. I answered the questions online and they required me to text them a code to see what my IQ test result was. That is how they suckered me in. I can’t believe I deleted the message from my phone… but they did tell me that I am approaching genius. Oh yeah… I’m really a hot number Like about a 140 here.

I wish I could remember where I found the IQ test to provide further warning about this trap.

_____________________________

My Sprint cell phone arrived today with a charge on it for $9.99 which made no sense at all.

Mobile Messenger: Alerts – 44999 Text Alerts – 10/03

Now I don’t remember making any mobile messenger type thing on 10/03. I did vote for the Design Star back in June, but that didn’t result in any charges to my cell phone because I have unlimited text messages. This was something else that supposedly happened on October 3..

I called Sprint right away to get this explained and hopefully removed from my account. The customer service rep was really kind to me. She listened to my woeful story and gave me a number to call. This was supposedly a TXT4fun subscription. The number to get it removed is 800-235-7105. She also agreed to remove the charge from my account.

Then I called the 800 number she gave me. It’s an automated system that answers and I had to enter my cell phone number there to “unsubscribe”. This sent a message to my cell phone telling me that I have no subscriptions there! Duh! So why did they generate a bill to my Sprint account?

They have a supposed explanation in the automated system which just says that I had to have texted to them in order to be subscribed. They have a function to get my subscription “investigated” for which I left a message on the answering machine with my home number for call back. Will follow up with more info if they do call me back on this.

Is My Money Safe?

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:31:59 +0000

I had to ask that question because we have a brokerage checking account through our bank. It’s not in the regular Suntrust Bank, but in the finanacial services. It took three different people to get my answer. As long as our money is not being traded (and it’ not) they say it’s protected by SIPC up to $500,000. I went to the SIPC website and it’s very encouraging. I guess it’s okay to relax a little about this.

There will be some pictures

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:45:44 +0000

The beach has been dreary…yes, we are still in Daytona Beach, Florida. The storms this year have caused piles of sea weed to come onto the beach. The ocean is rougher than we are used to here and the beach is much narrower than in past visits. There are no cars on the beach this month.

I have found a new site in prelaunch to promote. Sqip is a social networking and entertainment portal that promises to be potentially very lucrative to those joining it at the Associate level. I will be watching this one closely in coming days and will update this as things evolve. Click the banner if you want to see more at the Sqipcom site.