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I forgot to tell you. I

Richard Day — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:03:32 +0000

In reply to dd - You were going to leave

I forgot to tell you.

I thought I already posted a reply.

My future daughter in law showed up with Seany and I ...well I had one gift that seemed to work and so I gave Ashley the parrot.

AND SHE LOVED IT.

She told me so on the phone.

I hope you are not mad but I had one gift I could give and SHE LOVED IT!

Now Noela aint gonna hear its song much. hahahahah

Anyway Seany gave me permission after he laughed like hell playing with it.

SO I THANK YOU that I had a gift to give.

It is a private company that

Richard Day — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:07:08 +0000

In reply to Basement fires suck. Because

It is a private company that manages this building; the City runs the building next door.

I personally witnessed the meeting between the manager and the insurance guy!

But, 8 days later I wander by the laundry room and they have cleaned up the floor that included the insulation and filth that the fire departments left. and the machines appear to be in good order but placed all over the place.

I really think I will be washing a load by Friday or early next week.

I am not carrying some bag full of clothes four blocks in the slush that is present everywhere up here. I just got back from the store and that is bad enough.

Anyway, Thursday of last week brought me back on line and in about 7 minutes I will watch Tiger Clean up at the Farmers Insurance Tournament.

My carpet is 7 years old, we have had water damage on two different occasions over those years and I am pretty sure I will not receive a new carpet.

They say that they are 'comping' my internet bill of 50 bucks though; I will believe it when I see it!

But really, all is good.

Basement fires suck. Because

artappraiser — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:44:42 +0000

In reply to SAFE

Basement fires suck. Because the smoke and heat travels up the building like a chimney and damages a ton of stuff. But more so because It takes forever for them to fix the damage. I know personally, so you have my complete condolences as to what happened and what is still going to happen in the weeks to come. Oh the adjuster has to come first before they can fix it, we can't touch it until then.Oh when's he coming? Maybe next week.....[implied: even though your landlord paid us a gazillion in premiums over the years, the claim is not that important, there's people with worse fire damage we have to tend to...stop whining, you didn't get hurt did you, there's people worse off....]

In a perfect world, your landlord's insurance company would cover any smoke damage to your apartment contents (like dry cleaning with pick up and delivery) and loss of crucial services (like this: they would give you money right away and you could like go out and get a little cellular wifi to temporarily access the internet and a temporary cell phone, etc.) but I know InsuranceWorld is far from a perfect world. But in InsuranceWorld they would say you should have had renter's insurance to cover your own personal property, you should have paid us a gazillion in those premiums over many years, and then we will torture you when you make a claim, and we wouldn't dream of giving you any money right away to get you temporary help or services, the adjuster has to check it out (and argue with your version of reality) first....

P.S. Nothing sucks worse than having to drag laundry to the laundromat, especially heavy stuff like bedding, towels and rags, for months, not even losing the internet. I can't imagine doing it in your weather. If given the choice between access to a washer/dryer and a dishwasher, I'd go with the former anyday.

P.P.S. On the "restoration services" affiliated with the major homeowners' insurers: one big crooked racket., mho. (Mho formed from personal experience, later confirmed by a relative who has many years experience with property management.)

dd - You were going to leave

Aunt Sam — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:19:21 +0000

In reply to SAFE

dd - You were going to leave the parrot behind?!? Obviously you were in shock. Poor little bird. tsk tsk!

I was reading your reply at A

Resistance — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:53:08 +0000

In reply to SAFE

I was reading your reply at

A Freshly Frozen Friday Afternoon at the...

About the cold where you are.

I think you might want to consider another blanket?

Or at least

Well, it might just do well to have a back-up residence—just in case.

Come south Richard.

Oh things are not that dire

Richard Day — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:08:07 +0000

In reply to Richard, when you smelled the

Oh things are not that dire around here although I reside in the middle of gun country.

The things I grabbed included an extra hoody besides my Eskimo outfit, my satchel, my wallet and some hankies. haaha

I wonder; do gun owners think first of grabbing their rifle or their wallet?

You'd a thunk I would have grabbed my PC first and thrown it in my satchel. It was furthest from my mind!

At any rate things are not dire around here anyway. And by tomorrow it will reach 16 above!

Persecution Politics? Michael

Resistance — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:48:50 +0000

In reply to Richard, when you smelled the

Persecution Politics?

Michael Wolraich: "Blowing Smoke" - YouTube

Maybe you're the one Blowing the Smoke?

Richard, when you smelled the

NCD — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:57:45 +0000

In reply to SAFE

Richard, when you smelled the smoke, did it occur to you that this could be the final doomsday so prophetically forecast by The Founders when they wrote the 2nd Amendment, and that Wayne LaPierre and the Oath Keepers were rising up to confront tyranny? If so, did you search for a gun?

Maybe I read Dag too much, but that scenario crossed my mind when I read of your dire predicament.

hahahahahah Actually, and I

Richard Day — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:58:25 +0000

In reply to Well! All of that because of

hahahahahah

Actually, and I find it hard to admit, but I washed my clothes in the kitchen sink for 4 years. hahahaha

And I did hang them all over the apartment.

I cannot tell you what a relief it was to have money and use the laundry for the last 2+ years. I collect quarters all month and then run down to clean clothes twice a month.

I had an entire protocol whereby I would wash a 'load' and then rinse in quarters?

Twice rinse for each quarter.

I'm fine, it will take a four block walk? to get so some other laundry that will cost a little more.

Oh and I have read of authors who have lost their works in fires and simply rewrote everything from memory. That just astounds me and I laugh even more for some reason.

I am safe now.

I aint worried about me except that more than 4 days without tv or internet or a phone drove me nuts!

I just could not get over someone putting an ER in is mansion, just in case or the idiot with ATM putting a robo-bank teller in his mansion.

Oh and the external drive given to me by TPC two years ago...The music is incredible. I have cuts from the Beatles BBC that astound me! And of course all my other music like Buffalo Springfield and Springstein and Dylan (of course)...it just goes on and on. Something like 300 gigabytes of sound. At any rate I might do an entire post on this because I was forced for more than four days to just put the albums on automatic play whilst I read some books.

I hear nuances I never grasped thirty and forty years ago.

Thanks for dropping in, as usual I am already droning on and on. hahahaha

Well! All of that because of

Ramona — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:22:04 +0000

In reply to SAFE

Well! All of that because of a fire in your laundry room! It's said that writers benefit from this kind of adversity, and look what came of it for you! ATMs and ERs in mansions. Who knew?

Maxine Hong Kingston lost an entire manuscript--an almost completed novel--when her house went up in flames during a California firestorm. She said she couldn't write fiction after that but went on to write works that were completely different. A combination of fiction and non-fiction that satisfied her.

I'm anxious to hear what you have to say about your external hard drive, as my son installed a 500 gig thingy that hooks up to my laptop and grabs stuff at 9AM every Sunday morning if my computer is on. I like the idea of having it as a backup but it sits on my desk right next to my laptop, so if there was a fire and I wasn't there to rescue them, they would both be gone. That's what happened to Kingston. She had her novel on CDs as a backup but they went up in flames, too.

Anyway, this was fun. As usual. And I'm glad all is well again.

About your laundry: Wash it by hand with shampoo (easier to rinse out) and hang it all around your house. It'll eventually dry and in the meantime it provides needed moisture in your winter-dry house. Life is full of challenges. This isn't one of them.