Geek On The Mountain

What a day. I started off trying to deal more with refinancing our house. To sum up the over all trouble, no one seems to want to do a 30 year loan and we can’t get cash back on our equity because we don’t own our land. We can get savings on what we pay every month with a 20 year loan, but obviously nowhere near what we could get with a 30. The equity thing is also rather important. This is all important for us to be able to actually adopt. I’m certainly not done looking, and I’m looking at other loans, but it’s tough to find something that works that we can actually pay for. Anyways, I thought I had found a place that would give us some cash back, but I just found out that they want your equity level to be at 35%, and ours is more like 25%.

Then, we went to try to get the second cell phone. The hangup is here is that we’re doing a number transfer. This isn’t working out easily. The trouble is that our main phone is still in Milenka’s name, and the cell is in mine, so they won’t do the transfer. I originally tried to get the phone a few weeks ago, and found this all out. I called up Verizon, and they supposedly put my name on the account, but when we just got our latest bill, I’m nowhere to be found. I called them back, and they account had Milenka’s name, and my SSN. I called back, and supposedly everything is OK now, but Alltel wouldn’t transfer because the bill doesn’t have my name. Apparently they don’t care what the account says, just the bill….come to think of it, I should just scan the damn thing, edit it, and print it back out….anyways, Verizon is supposed to be mailing us something detailing the change, so hopefully Alltel will recognize that. I’ll certainly try a different location…..the place we went to is located in Walmart and the lady was just dumb. Like, you’d tell her something, and then she’d ask you a question that you had just answered with what you told her….I asked if I could have Verizon fax the changes to her, and she just said that she might not get it because the person who mans the fax might not know where it goes, and she was unwilling to help beyond that.

It was all such good fun, that I declared myself sick and am spending the night with Milenka. Not that it really matters, my work out and out declares that it’s my time and they don’t care why I’m using it. We’ve started off by blogging, so I figured I’d write an entry and do some major revamping of how everything looks….I might even make some graphics, which should be interesting considering I can’t draw. I actually had this silly idea many years ago that perhaps I could draw if I were using a computer…..given, I was trying to do ASCII art for a BBS(does anyone else remember cool, multi-page ASCII drawings that would flow down the screen?), but I can say that it really didn’t work out. On the other hand, I think that doing that was probably a lot harder than using paint shop pro….I’ll give ‘er a go.

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