Fraud alert: Ideal Savings Voice Mail

We opened our phone bill this month to find it oddly over $50 which is
rare for that to happen. On one page for 3rd Party Billing was a listing
for $14.95 from Ideal Savings VM Monthly Fee, added July 4th. We do not
recall signing up for this service. So far in all our time this is only
the 2nd time some company tried to illegally slam charges on our phone
bill.

So I called the toll free number associated with Ideal Savings Voice
Mail and got some guy, probably from India (or in India) and spoke to
him. He tried to make it sound like we contacted them or accessed their
service in some way and signed up. I denied that. If we had signed up
for their service, how come we don't have any letters or documentation
explaining things? Or a number to call our so called voice mail service
and how to use it?

He tried to sell me on other services, I just cut him off by saying
we're not interested in anything, we're offended this happened. He
promised to cancel the service and gave me a confirmation code, and said
the refund would appear "in 1 or 2 billing cycles."

As soon as I got off the phone with him, I called our phone company and
put a 3rd Party Billing Block on our account. Seeing as they handle our
long distance as well, that solves that other problem. As long as the
refund from Ideal Savings comes through, they have done their job.

Examine your phone bill closely every month!

Obentou deshi

Shrimp teriyaki bentou at A1 Steakhouse was very good!

Surprise added bonus was shrimp off the teppanyaki grill, which I didn't order.

There was some discussion between the cook and the waitress who took our orders as to what she actually wrote compared to what we ordered and that he couldn't read her writing. ^_^

See you on TV!

This post keeps disappearing when I send it to SpatulAnime ML

This had better get through. I'm trying to prove a point. My 2nd post on
this subject did make it through first. Odd, ain't it?
Posted by: "zshadez"
"From everything I can see the series is called Mai Otome, typing
something into google and getting results does not equal proof."
You're not looking hard enough. and Um, yes it does, because if there
were no info to find, Google would not find it.
Proof follows. (re: said Google results)
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I think that's pretty overwhelming proof.
Purists from the Japanese edition use Mai Oto Hime, even if it gets
incorrectly romanized at Mai Otome.
Do I need moar proof? (I had this same exchange with Gary Brown of the
Rep over the spelling and subsequent non-issuance of a correction of the
spelling of the name of 'Yuki Onna'.)
The kanji for this series has with romanized letters for Hime.
But I digress.
The Mai kanji has a Spahn Hadamitzy look up of 0a15.1 and means "dance"
or "flutter about."
The kanji for "oto" means "sound" but that's not the kanji used here.
It's "otsu" - 0a1.5. This means "second (in a series)" or in another way
"B".
Combine "otsu" with the kanji for "woman" and you get "maiden" (the 2nd
woman) or "otome." It Also combines with Hime to read "Otohime" which
means "younger princess."
So you have Mai-hime and Mai-Oto-Hime, and there's Mai Oto Hime Z.

Though, Bandai has been known to make errors in translating titles.
"tenshi no shippo" means "Angel's Tail" but they mangled it when they
brought it here as "Angel Tales" which it is not.

The evil sister is gone... for now.

She finally left. It took her 3 weeks to do what she said would have
been done in one.

The ceiling has wallboard on it, but the molding that goes around isn't
finished, nor moved up to the new height of the ceiling. There's
painting that also needs to be done, and if my other sister who said
she'd do it doesn't come out soon enough, I'll do it in spite of
protestations that my mom doesn't want me to do it because she doesn't
think I'll do as good a job.

I paint figure models. Nuff said.

The ceiling fan is mostly up. There are a few missing screws for the
wings of the fan, so right now there's only 2 on it (balanced so it can
at least be used - I'm not stupid). I'll have to find replacements at a
hardware store. I'll need to shim one more side of it so that it won't
wobble anymore as the fan operates.

Mom said there were discussions between the kitties all night and Negi
is hiding at the moment.

I slept well for once last night but I still have this overall body
pain. I hope some ibuprofen will help.

I'm also trying but having problems trying to register and use an
account on Pearson Vue's website in order to buy testing vouchers and
schedule the tests. The main problem is getting the account. They don't
let you set your own password right off the bat. Last Monday (before the
end of July) I began to create and register an account. When I got done,
I was told I would have to wait "one business day" for the email I was
supposed to get with my password or some such link to begin using my
account and schedule my CompTIA tests.

I waited until Wednesday to check my email on the address I gave them
for this. No email from Pearson Vue. Checked Friday. Still no note. So I
tried to access my account, and for some reason their system keeps
thinking I want to change something. No.. I want to access my account
for which you never sent me the email about the password! Oh but I did
get 2 emails in regard to changing something in my profile with them,
but I wasn't trying to change anything! And to top it off, I still can't
get past that page about logging in and telling me my password is
wrong!!!

I tried to register an account yesterday with a different username, and
used the same email address. It still would not let me do anything. I've
sent off 2 emails to their customer service detailing the problems I'm
having and expressing frustration. I never got their email about the
password and can't do anything past the log in screen and being told my
password is wrong and I'm not trying to change anything. I just want to
log in to see about scheduling my tests and try ordering the testing
vouchers I need.

I don't know what the problem is.

Negi is safely back home

I had been annoyed by Negi's behavior all day since he went into the
over grown field across the railroad tracks after last night. And in
spite of my pleas to come home, he just refused to have anything to do
with me.

At least until tonight. During an episode of Anthony Bourdain, after I
finally finished cooking supper, I decided to try luring him out of the
field and back over here with a can of catfood I bought earlier today.
Negi decided to appear at the edge of the field, somewhat interested in
possibly coming closer, but threatening to disappear into the over
growth if I got "too close" for some odd reason. Even though this is the
cat in our household who visits me on the toilet in the bathroom in the
morning and insists on me grooming him with the comb I got for him to
reduce his shedding elsewhere in the house.

So, exasperated that he was doing that, I decided to just leave the open
can of food on the stairs on the back porch, and went inside.

A few minutes later, I decide to go check on things and there he is.
Negi has decided he's hungry and is eating the food. Though after trying
to creep up on him to possibly grab him (he ran back under the damn
porch again when I did), I noticed he hadn't eaten a whole lot. He just
got there before I checked on things.

But this time, it was different. I came prepared with his shedding comb
in hand, because I know he loves this. So I sit there on the steps, call
to him, and make noises with the spring mechanism on the comb.

It takes a while, but he comes out. Negi decides he wants to be groomed.
^_^ After getting him relaxed, I get him close enough and I'm able to
get a hand under him and he doesn't struggle to get away. I grab the can
of food and we go inside.

Some time not much after that, Negi resumes occupying his roost on the
couch and tries to fall asleep.

And just to show this temporary jaunt outside hasn't changed things, I
heard the cats have a "discussion" while I was typing this. So, no,
Marmalade and Negi still aren't the best of friends.

hhhnnnnggg.... T.T

So anywho I get told that Negi was heard from across the railroad tracks
this morning. So he's not under the porch anymore. WTF is wrong with
cats when they get out of the house? They suck up to you inside, but
outside act as if they don't know you at all.

He'd better damn well come back.

Got ahold of one

Sitting out on the back porch steps and clapping my hands got Marmalade
to come out of hiding under the porch, but Negi... I don't know what's
wrong with that cat once he gets outside. I do know the longer he's out
there, the harder it will be to get him to come back in. I tried opening
a can of food, and even a small bowl with milk in it, but if I were to
try to position myself to attempt to grab him, he moves away, even if I
just brush an ear with a fingertip, and he's fast. Rage.

He better be there in the morning ready to come in.

And I'm still pissed.

You can't imagine how mad I am right now

So my sister has been working on the ceiling and as is her habit, she's
left the door open to the kitchen a lot today.

A while ago, after having to prop open a window with a plastic container
because we don't have screens in the kitchen, I discovered Negi had
gotten out, but for some reason the stupid cat wouldn't just run into an
open door.

Then after getting upset and pissed about that, I noticed I can't find
Marmalade either.

Work on the ceiling is getting done

Anywho, my older sister is still being bitchy.

Mom is bitchy for no reason. A harmless comment about our dog going out
to the kitchen to see if I dropped anything after I got my breakfast got
an undeserved reaction and I had to exasperately tell her to knock it
off, you weren't listening, etc. Not everything I say is a complaint
about something.

I found out this morning the paper towel holder I spent money on got
broke yesterday, and nobody bothered to say anything or replace it
(yet).

Side benefit for stripping the ceiling in the kitchen is that it goes up
about 3 inches when it's done. 3 inches thick of various layers of
ceiling material.

And so in addition to having to pay property taxes next month, I have to
contribute to the $130 to $140 of insulation that was bought for the
project.

I'm not going to have that money for a couple of months with having to
pay property taxes, which I feel are a crock and a ripoff. You buy a
building, you pay taxes on the sale. And as long as that property sits
somewhere, you continue to pay taxes on it. However, if you're
delinquent for long enough, they can take it away from you to pay for
the taxes. You don't ever own anything of that type of property that's
entirely "yours."