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[sanpaku_backup]

I know you're all anxious to hear how I solved my dilemma. Well, I'm going to write about it anyway...

There turned out to be several problems with D), which is what I thought would be the best. It turns out the CDW doesn't cover the first $150 of damage, so I'd still have to find a way to pay them that, in addition to the $20 CDW, to feel "even" in my little fantasy post-hoc universe.

I was just about to write it off, then, when I came back on Monday. But as I was hanging around waiting to be picked up, I saw "my" van (the dented one) pull in driven by someone else. I watched the lot attendant walk around the van and then smack it a few times where the missing piece was. So I decided to hang around and make sure they didn't hit the guy who had driven "my" van with the damage. (I decided that if they didn't care, the only thing I was really concerned about ethically was that they not shtup someone else for it.)

They didn't shtup the guy. So, emboldened, I walked up to "Chad" (the attendant) and told him I wondered if I had done that, and he told me no, the van had been like that for about a month.

So I sort of did A) when I knew there was no cost to it... not much of a moral statement. So I get to be a wuss on a couple of counts. But at least I know I'm even with U-Haul, and can go back to hating them for screwing me in various small ways.

Thank you all for your advice, though. I found it interesting that most of you were into C) so much. It is true that on a cosmic level some kind of screwup by a corporation falls into the "Bank Error in Your Favor" category in the Monopoly game of life. But, you know. As I said. I'm a wuss.


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After an eternity of dragging and lifting and going up and down stairs we seem to have found small patches of floor underneath the boxes at the house, so that's some progress. You realize that with the house comes a limitless supply of small, interesting, expensive projects -- things to fix, improve, spiff up.

Already we have succeeded in breaking a light fixture and locking a door in a way that wouldn't let it unlock. We need a mixing valve on the hot water thingee, a medicine cabinet for the bathroom, a plumber to come out to get the sink in the downstairs bathroom to work, and so on. And that's just stuff I don't really care about. This is on top of much work that has piled up while I was busy with all the immediately necessary work... will not be much of a holiday weekend for me.

And it's on to the next set of expensive, useless whims. I bought a canoe (long, stressful van ride with canoe hanging out of back of U-Haul van up Reservoir Ave.) and now need to find a car rack for it. I'm itching to take it out! But that's a two-person job, and our babysitter (read mother-in-law) is going back today.

Also want to finally go wireless with the computers. That's a $400 whim (once you factor in buying OS X 10.3, two cards, and a router) for something not especially necessary, but you know, "reason not the need" and all that. Will someone settle something for me once and for all -- do you need an AirPort Base Station to use an AirPort card on a Mac? They sure make it sound like you can't, but I'm pretty sure you can.

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[msmidge.livejournal.com]

I just bought an Airport card for my eMac and I haven't installed it yet, but with that and the wireless router I *think* I should be good to go. That's what the MicroCenter guy said--he kind of indicated that Apple would like us to all buy a base station, but what's the point.