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[A Friend of Charlie]

Morning, muchachos.  Happy Christmastide.

Thank you. Good sir. Hope the season is especially good to you and yours.

Been a while since you posted about your brother. How's he doing?

[A Friend of Charlie]

Woke up without heat again this morning. Now I'm starting to lose my patients. It's supposed to get serviced between 1-3 this afternoon.

Good gracious. Do they have lemon laws for boilers?

The guy is here now and we're already at 63° in the house.

Long story, but repairs are still in progress.

[LuvTooGolf]

Woke up without heat again this morning. Now I'm starting to lose my patients. It's supposed to get serviced between 1-3 this afternoon.

Good gracious. Do they have lemon laws for boilers?

The guy is here now and we're already at 63° in the house.

Long story, but repairs are still in progress.

I hope this story ends with you not being out of pocket on this.

[LuvTooGolf]

Morning, muchachos.  Happy Christmastide.

Afternoon, Page2Raz.

[razgueado]

Morning, muchachos.  Happy Christmastide.

Thank you. Good sir. Hope the season is especially good to you and yours.

Been a while since you posted about your brother. How's he doing?

Thad remains cancer-free, and gets stronger and stronger.  He rode dirt bikes a lot over the summer, and we played a four-hour gig on Dec 20th. 

A few weeks ago, he thought he was going to lose his job at Microsoft, which had him in distress.  Instead, they promoted him and gave him a $20K/year raise. 

So I guess you'd say Thad's doing just fine. 

[razgueado]

Morning, muchachos.  Happy Christmastide.

Afternoon, Page2Raz.

Afternoon, LTG.

[razgueado]

And there's the first Vishing scam call of the season.  They were clever.  Masqueraded as the company that holds my mortgage, so the Android phone spam filter didn't snag it.  They called to have me verify two fraudulent transactions.  The tipoff was that they didn't understand a minor oddity in my credit report.  There is a creditor with which I have a mortgage and a HELOC, and my wife has a credit card from the same provider which appears in my report because I'm an authorized user, but I don't actually have the card.  So they told me the fraudulent charges were on that card, and did I recognize them?  Nice try, thanks for playing, *click*. 

They were smooth, though.  Very convincing.  I surveyed all the credit reports, just in case.  I monitor all my credit cards daily.  I had the missus check her two. 

Gotta be careful out there.

[LuvTooGolf]

And there's the first Vishing scam call of the season.  They were clever.  Masqueraded as the company that holds my mortgage, so the Android phone spam filter didn't snag it.  They called to have me verify two fraudulent transactions.  The tipoff was that they didn't understand a minor oddity in my credit report.  There is a creditor with which I have a mortgage and a HELOC, and my wife has a credit card from the same provider which appears in my report because I'm an authorized user, but I don't actually have the card.  So they told me the fraudulent charges were on that card, and did I recognize them?  Nice try, thanks for playing, *click*. 

They were smooth, though.  Very convincing.  I surveyed all the credit reports, just in case.  I monitor all my credit cards daily.  I had the missus check her two. 

Gotta be careful out there.

If only they used their skills for good instead of evil.

[LuvTooGolf]

Morning, muchachos.  Happy Christmastide.

Thank you. Good sir. Hope the season is especially good to you and yours.

Been a while since you posted about your brother. How's he doing?

Thad remains cancer-free, and gets stronger and stronger.  He rode dirt bikes a lot over the summer, and we played a four-hour gig on Dec 20th. 

A few weeks ago, he thought he was going to lose his job at Microsoft, which had him in distress.  Instead, they promoted him and gave him a $20K/year raise. 

So I guess you'd say Thad's doing just fine.

Glad to hear it.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Woke up without heat again this morning. Now I'm starting to lose my patients. It's supposed to get serviced between 1-3 this afternoon.

Good gracious. Do they have lemon laws for boilers?

The guy is here now and we're already at 63° in the house.

Long story, but repairs are still in progress.

I hope this story ends with you not being out of pocket on this.

No out of pocket, although I heard the technician arguing with the office and they were telling him that the warranty ended on December 17th. I immediately called them and asked them to check my history and when was the last time I reported this same issue (over-filling of the boiler, because low water sensor not working). Their tune changed rather quickly. In all fairness the office guy is new and I asked him to talk to the owner who was ready to make this right.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Morning, muchachos.  Happy Christmastide.

Thank you. Good sir. Hope the season is especially good to you and yours.

Been a while since you posted about your brother. How's he doing?

Thad remains cancer-free, and gets stronger and stronger.  He rode dirt bikes a lot over the summer, and we played a four-hour gig on Dec 20th. 

A few weeks ago, he thought he was going to lose his job at Microsoft, which had him in distress.  Instead, they promoted him and gave him a $20K/year raise. 

So I guess you'd say Thad's doing just fine.

That's all great to hear.

[A Friend of Charlie]

And there's the first Vishing scam call of the season.  They were clever.  Masqueraded as the company that holds my mortgage, so the Android phone spam filter didn't snag it.  They called to have me verify two fraudulent transactions.  The tipoff was that they didn't understand a minor oddity in my credit report.  There is a creditor with which I have a mortgage and a HELOC, and my wife has a credit card from the same provider which appears in my report because I'm an authorized user, but I don't actually have the card.  So they told me the fraudulent charges were on that card, and did I recognize them?  Nice try, thanks for playing, *click*. 

They were smooth, though.  Very convincing.  I surveyed all the credit reports, just in case.  I monitor all my credit cards daily.  I had the missus check her two. 

Gotta be careful out there.

They are getting trickier. I long for the days of the Nigerian prince.

[LuvTooGolf]

Woke up without heat again this morning. Now I'm starting to lose my patients. It's supposed to get serviced between 1-3 this afternoon.

Good gracious. Do they have lemon laws for boilers?

The guy is here now and we're already at 63° in the house.

Long story, but repairs are still in progress.

I hope this story ends with you not being out of pocket on this.

No out of pocket, although I heard the technician arguing with the office and they were telling him that the warranty ended on December 17th. I immediately called them and asked them to check my history and when was the last time I reported this same issue (over-filling of the boiler, because low water sensor not working). Their tune changed rather quickly. In all fairness the office guy is new and I asked him to talk to the owner who was ready to make this right.

That's good news, even if it took some doing.