TAN #144 Bring your sexTANt and steer by the stars. (Page 27)

crowny2 - 2011-06-28 2:50 AM

TriAya - 2011-06-27 12:37 PM

crowny2 - 2011-06-28 2:33 AM

TriAya - 2011-06-27 11:11 AM

Sprint_DA - 2011-06-28 1:07 AM What's up kids?

Speeeeedy DAN!!!

zup!

Thought about you this weekend. By all looks of it you'll have had a longer and nastier recovery from your bike accident nearly 2 years ago but mine has been and will be more paaaaaainful

Sorry you are hurted.   

I hartz you Mister Crowny. Schanks Right now I'm okay but it does come and go.

I bet.  Need a kiss on the boo-boo? 

Yes. I have many boo boos. ALL OVER.

Probably.

if i had any faith whatsoever in any doctor to interpret the scans, I might.

Happy Birthday to her!  Glad to hear things are good for you.  3k feet in an Oly is ridiculous!  Was it fun or was it just brutal? 

Life is good.  Just trying to figure out, more than anything else, where I need to be.  Some days I feel like I'm not doing anything with my life.  I work at a bike shop, so not really an adult job, and don't have a whole lot else going on.  But I love it.  And there are definitely many days when I feel like I'm done with the whole Iowa experiment.  But I still have some really good friends there that I'll miss not being around.  I just feel like there has to be more for me than how I'm currently living.  Too many thoughts out of my head?  I feel like it could be a little deep for TAN.

DRAT

I hate it when I get caught. I was trying to represent like I didn't drive ... yeah, that was really stupid. I am not judging anything well today.

I am surprised that you read my posts carefully, but not surprised that you are an extremely smart guy (can't be surprised by something you know, I guess) and picked up on that.

Hate to tell ya, babe... didn't really take a private eye to pick up on that. Maybe you're not as subtle as you think in this weakened state

I agree with Pitt... you really, really should get your head checked out.

Clarity has been hard to come by.  Just so much rattling around in my head.

Sigh, double drat ... but I really appreciate you guys caring. Thank you.

Also, my own sister keeps calling and asking me (she'll probably start telling soon, or just show up) to do that, so ...

How can we contact her to encourage her to do so? :P

Want?  Why whatever do you mean?

I'm going to agree with him on this one Ms. Yanti: get it checked-out. The possibility exists that it's not "just" a concussion and TAN just wouldn't be quite as much fun without you.

And Cheri, the stunningly lovely ladies of TAN are quite high on my list, so I guess that makes it reciprocal.

'Morning (or Afternoon, as it may be) Heather. A few days sans kids? Take advantage of it. As much as you may love your kids (most of the time? with some occasional exceptions?), a little time to yourself is a good thing. Of course this is coming from someone who has no interest in having children, so my perspective may be a little off(-kilter?).

Mr. Bennett, a good friend of mine has had those stones since his 20's and the pain described sounds almost intolerable. How someone could pass one and remain conscious is almost beyond me, but I had gall stones and the pain was occasionally so bad I couldn't hear people talking to me, so I guess anything is possible. I can sympathize. I hope they're not too debilitating.

Hey Yanti, did we mention that further examination of your head might be in order? No, I don't mean with a head psychrinker, I mean with the aforementioned CT scan. Just sayin'.

I feel sick to my stomach...

The pipes that we paid $1000 for 3 hours of work to get fixed is starting to leak again right next to the connection they made.  They say their work and materials are under life time warranty so in my eyes, if they messed something up right next to their work (ie, the connection) they should fix it for free, no?  In fact, they said the price was so high because the job could take 3 hours OR 8 hours, depending if they mess up the connection.  So the KNEW it could be a problem.

But here is my fear.  The leak might be the connection or only 0.5 inches away but on the existing pipe.  It is clear to me that what they feared, happened, after less then 30 days...  A problem with the connection.  But I'm afraid they are going to say it's not their work.  Just REALLY close by and charge me.

I hate confrontation, and this could get UGLY.  I seriously can't afford to drop another 1000 or more...  Maybe I shoudn't stress about it untill it happens, but I'm VERY anxious.  They are coming around 3pm today.

BTW, 2011 is easily the worst year of my life BY FAR....

lose job, lose insurance, get cancer, major house exspenses due to breaks...  And we are only half way done with 2011.

Jim, I couldn't even begin to understand the extent of how 2011 is going for you, but I do understand not enjoying confrontational situations and knowing ahead of time that you're going to have a fight over the pipes. 

I think you're right that it's very likely the work done caused this damage. Being that close to the recent work, and that they knew there could be damage in the process, I'd like to think the contractor would go in and fix the current problem without giving you any more problems, but I'm too cynical to have much faith in such things.

Duct tape and bubble gum?

That may be my last resort... 

The wife says if they try to charge, report them to the BBB and find someone else...

BBB reports don't do crap, IMO...  I would almost be tempted to call a lawyer, HOWEVER.  There is no "proof" they broke it, as well as no "proof" they didn't.  But logic seems to imply that since they mentioned they new it was a concern, and even if they walked away and it looked fine, that it started to leak soon after?  It has been a few days over a month as of today when I noticed it and I'm SURE it has been leaking for a while.  Who knows how long.  But I would bet it didn't start up today or yesterday.  And they said LIFETIME warranty.

Supply.  They needed to unthread a pipe to a compression fitting on the mainline from the street to the house.  They KNEW that they could easily break the compression fitting if they forced the unthreading of the copper pipe to it.  That's why they said they charged me that much.  They said the cost was high, because if they broke it, it would take a long time to fix.

At first blush, I thought it was wonky they would charge me upfrot for something that COULD happen, or charge me upfront for hours that they MIGHT spend.  But that's a whole other long story.  Because neither of those things happened up front.

BUT, 30 days later, it looks like it DID.  So now they can earn the $1000 I gave them.

I can just see them being real d!cks and saying that it's existing pipe/connection and it's not covered AND they said (during their initial visit) that the real epensive and time consuming issue could be if they mess up that compression fitting.

It could go smooth and they just fix it and then I laugh at my nausea due to worry.  OR, they say it's not covered and walk away like arseholes and leave me screwed after a long fight and some yelling.  And of course lots of phone calls to supervisors and owners...

I know!  Know what's weird?  I'm getting more worked up about this than my insurance and cancer deal...

I don't KNOW if the new insurance is going to accept me or not, or when/how I pay for surgery, or when I can get it done.  I told myself to keep working at it and worry AFTER I get some definitive answers...

But THIS???  I'm sitting here stewing on what could be a non issue!

My game plan up front is to be VERY cordial, and show them the issue and see what they say.  No reason to make it hostile out of the gate.  If they say it's not covered or even questionable, I will mention the conversation I had before.  What would be NICE, if it's the same guy.  That's pushing it though.

Then get more and more passionate about it if things go wrong.

anyway,  TRYING not to dwell on it yet.