Grrr Argh!
My letter to Sallie Mae:
On 7/19/06 I checked my loan 10-day payoff on your website. The amount listed was $***.44 due before 7/29/06.
On 7/27 I made a payment of $***.43, and realizing I had made it a penny short, I made a second payment of $1, which is the minimum your system will allow a payment.
By that reconing, you should be showing the loans paid in full, and a surplus of 99 cents in my account.
I decided to check on the process, and indeed find that you did receive payment on 7/27/06 as requested, and fully TWO days before the 10-day payoff deadline.
So, now my account says that no, I still owe $1.63!
This is the second time I have attempted to pay off my student loan, the three years ago you gave me an amount, I had a check drawn up, and you said I had another $*** to pay off. I did not print out the payment amount at that time, so I had no choice.
This time it is different. This time I printed out the payoff amount and I want you to stick to it. And I want my 99 cents back, just on principle.
Please respond immediately.
Daniel C. Jensen
Stars inserted for public reading.
Last night, The Boy and I went to a farm to see a sculpture exhibit. No, really. It's a working farm that's also a "sculpture center," which has some permanent pieces, as well as hosting sculpture shows. All the pieces are outdoors, and they're all very contemporary -- like, made from industrial materials, rather than a statue of Aphrodite carved out of marble.
This is the final weekend for an exhibit at the farm that's called "Without Walls." I got attacked by either bugs (but bugs don't bite me, damn it!), or a really nasty weed, because after being there for about an hour, I had welts and hives all over my arms and legs, and we had to leave to get Benadryl for me. Which led to an early night, as I zonked out once I had the Benadryl in my body.
Anyway, I took a bunch of pictures of the sculptures, starting here: [link]
What a cool idea.
Too bad about the welt-leaving bugs or weeds.
P-C (or Jen, for that matter), could you send me that number as well?
Dude, I almost just signed my post. Brain hiccup!
Wow, this is just...wrong...
Quarter-Horse
From: Funny Pics
I was surfing the 'net for a while just now, and Harvey wandered over to purr at me and finally settled down beside my mousing hand on the desk, and then put his head over my wrist. After a while, His purrs subsided and he fell asleep. Still on my wrist.
I was careful not to shuffle the mouse too violently, lest he wake up. Eventually, though, I had to get up, and slowly pulled my wrist away.
He looked up at me sleepily, stretched and yawned.
Cats are so damn cute.
Yeah. Rocky was just lying on his back on the couch beside me chirruping. So. Damn. Cute.
It almost makes me forget him annoyingly wandering around the house last night mewing piteously for no discernable reason. Almost.
Cats are so tyrannical in their cuteness. They do something ridiculously cute, and then you find yourself completely unable to move because the cuteness is placed in such a way that you can't move, or blink, or reach your inhaler, and you just think, "So damn cute!"
Dogs, otoh - well, we have a new rule in our house. To wit: if you want me to take seriously the grave security threat that has you barking like Stalin was at the door with an axe, you might want to get up off you damn dog bed to do it. Seriously, yo. Do you not see how you're undermining your own case?
