Musings of a scribbler froglette

their truck mimics thunder. too bad all their food had msg or hfcsyrup or partially hdrog poison in it last we checked or we could have cold stuff w/o being single delivery when its too hot to stove/oven and we could grill it!

maybe the cops were coming to say happy birthday? my mom called three times yesterday while we were trying to get home, and were not because of the broken belt and screw/bolt.

maybe it was because the house is open windows and some doors (cats escaped i had to get them back) and both garage doors and few more on our road, or maybe its more foreclosure notices, but i'd like to think that eugene came by to say happy birthday.

Eugene was our reader meter, er, other way round, that's how tired i am, who is now a city police officer.

Julien i know is here. and i am here. not sure who else from swapagoat.com is here.

www.swapagoat.com is fun,

The Marriage Wager Giveaway!

she said this:
Listen up, Candace Camp fans! I have one copy of The Marriage Wager to give away to one lucky reader! All you have to do for a contest entry is:
1. Leave a comment. Any comment!
2. Follow my blog.
3. Post something on your blog about this giveaway and give me the link.


I don't know who Candace Camp is or if i'm a fan. I do like the dress on the cover of the book because if i had a mustard salad and dropped some mustard dressing i'd never be able to see it!

i followed the rules for 1. 2.(of course) and now for three... well here it is!

Ribbit!

http://www.carrotink.com/-USB-Drive-USB-USB-cartridge-product-41276-41275-65596-65597-USB-.htm

does anything look like bunny poop besides bunny poop?

http://videogum.com/archives/animals-on-film/the-live-kitten-feed-of-our-ho_048191.html

or
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kitty-cam-2

Thanks!

Talk to me about ipods for music. How does it connect?

What do i need to know? what should i ignore? Fairly well organized stable price due to Apple price setting? Better to purchase at xyz than sams?

Is it better to get an actual industry standard ipod than other mp3 player for dockability and stability of mp3 playing?

What do i need to know?

ah, now edited to ask more: i want to back up every CD toad's made that holds 80 minutes of music. knowing how many 'songs' an ipod holds wont help me. the beatles songs are three minutes, the blues up to 12. i need data in 'hours' so i can count cds we have made of LP's/80min blocks and find out total number of gigs needed for hurricane/natural disaster backup, plus additional time for music industry mfg songs downloaded/cds etc.
It's legal to make a copy of your cd to put on the ipod right?

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http://www.financialpowertools.com/mortgage_calculator/index.html if we throw a bit o money now and again....


I'm looking for something that will help me figure out this financial question:

We have a 15 year mortgage at R rate. Zero points. We owe V amount. We want to know at what interest percentage rate based on 5-7 grand refinancing costs we would be 'saving money'.

This seems to help: http://www.dinkytown.net/java/MortgageRefinance.html

my question won't use a 'mortgage calculator' function afaik because that tells you 'based on income' how much house you can afford.



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SO i learned a new verb,cramming, to cram. IT's some unauthorized company putting charges or changes on somebody else's phone bill. AT&T told me that's the verb, the word for what happened.

How did this happen? ATT won't say or can't say.

We've been charged by some company called ILD Teleservices, INC 8.94 for voicemail set up. We never asked for voicemail. One, we have an answering device, a physical bit of plastic and metal and whatever else is in there. Two, toad hates voice mail. He doesn't like phone calls and if it's that important people can call back or leave a message on our answering machine which requires pushing a button, not getting 'on the phone'.

AT&T said i have to call the ILD _again_ first call was in dec for the billing in nov, to ask for the charges to be removed. I think that's a pain and slightly unfair. I thought (edited) it's their breech of billing i should think. I suppose since i'm not a lawyer i don't have the proper answers or terms to use. Now that i've read up on it, i now know i'm the one who has to fight with these creeps at ILD and report them. So i am reporting them. I also read since the monopoly was broken up, AT&T is required to do this billing for them.

I want to report this so that ILD can be 'watched' tho I have no idea by whom, i guess the FCC but i really don't know if that's their job. This is a billing scam.

I called ILD for the second time since they never refunded the november charge, who transfered me and claimed i'd called another number from their 800. If there is a billing for that call i will be even more annoyed.

ILD claims they will credit, but they said this previously about the november bill and it's still not off, by sending ATT a notice of credit for my money back and this will take two billing cycles. So, i'm out 8.94 unless some crap lying company sends AT&T that money back, and now they claim it will be charged again next month.

ATT did 'put a block' on my account so no more charges can be placed on my account. We never signed up for voicemail but i have no idea if ATT's block will really do anything since they billed us in the first place for something we didn't authorize and they won't do anything about it themselves, they say we have to do something about it.

This is all a scam.

So, i have to figure out whom to report this to. http://www.help4srs.org/finance/cram.htm said read your phone bill carefully. Well i did, but that doesn't mean that we won't be out this money and or get charged again, and or have another scam unless att's block works. I did file an FCC report based on the FCC page. I don't know if it will help and if it's the only thing I should do or not. Looking at better business bureau page at the moment.



Tho, we could cancel ATT and get phone over the internet, especially if that's unlikely to be crammed, but who knows. I'd never heard of this before.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3078500/ apparently tho it's an old scam that is resurging.

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The ceo evil man thief is in my opinion, this guy gleened from the websites about his business. May his karmactic kickback be ever so full of all the time he's wasted for all the people who have had to deal with him, and all the heartburn, indigestion etc. You'd think he'd be croaked by now with all that high blood pressure wouldn't you? If it karmacticaly hit him all at once you'd think he'd explode.
Corporate Information

Fred Lloyd
Vice President, Strategic Planning
ILD Telecommunications, Inc.
5000 Sawgrass Village Circle, Suite 30
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
Office: (904) 273-2440
Tollfree: 1(800)433-4518
Fax: (904) 285-3616
Email: fred.lloyd@ildmail.com
If ILD fails to do so, consumers should file a complete report using the ConsumerAffairs.com complaint form, with copies to the Federal Trade Commission and their state Public Utilities Commission.

We're waiting. we were charge in november and it's january twenty three and no refund has been issued as far as AT*T knows.

http://www.bellsouth.com/outageMsgs/ebpp_outage.html has been the message all day. i'm trying to pay our bill Is it down or is it just me claims it's working, but i think that machine doesn't get this message and comprehend it.

Can anyone get to www.bellsouth.com/pay and get a "login" instead of the outage page?

Apple cinnamon sponge cake with sweet creme glace. That sounds good.

The dude who did the invocation for the lunch, they said his name and his title. his voice is luscious.

At the Inaugration:
So, what's the deal with no hats? I was glad to see T. Kennedy and Aretha Franklin smart enough to wear hats in that cold weather. I guess maybe they aren't as bald as I am.. .maybe their hair keeps them warm, tho I don't think the President's hair is thicker than mine by much. Didn't his head get chilly? Brrr!

What was that with the Oath being spoken by Roberts. He seemed to not judge the rate properly at which to spit out the words, and did he leave stuff out? Forget what he was to say?

I thought it made the whole "Oath" repeat after me sound like a mistake filled paragraph. I think he should have read it from a card if he couldn't remember what to say. It made Mr. Obama look, at first, to me, to be making a mistake or two.

I don't have tivo or instant replay. NBC text online claims Roberts screwed it up. Something wasn't exactly right.

Mrs. Obama was wearing frog green gloves and greenish tint outfit on Frog Day. So, why wasn't she wearing red, white, or blue?

Toad's morning began with a trip to the dentist for a repair of a broken tooth.

Mr. Obama became president. Toad said, "Barak Obama gets sworn in to be commander in chief, to be the US President. Today I get a crown."

Good thing toad's crown is on his tooth, not his head. :)

George Bush and wife just got in Marine One, which no longer is, flies toward Texas.

loucheroo said gale gand's butter cream to frost toad's cake...

last year cameron and i used a bunch of powdered sugar and creme cheese. the net connection was down so we couldn't look up the instructions! ;)

i just don't know enough spanish to know what it was you were trying to say....

Cell call from : 702 224 2596

Tho it sounded like a call center perhaps and a recorded message playback. it was very loud and very much full of other noises.

and google says:

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/7022242596


just fyi, toad's work cell phone is not with the carrier that tracethisnumber.com claims it is with. i wouldn't trust them.

weather radio says expect power outages.

Hey! does live journal work on battery? No, not when there is no power to the modem!

Needs to update their faq to include info about what's to be expected for lunch. We drove by to locate the actual parking entrances and building doorways. No liquids allowed. Does this mean they serve coffee inside to wake up jurors? Who knows. No mention is made of food/beverages and the holding tanks for the prospective jurors.

It can't be that everybody begs off, therefore what are folks expected to do? Hopefully it's not the black hole of calcutta in there. Now, why would there be a black hole in india? Must google that...

Hi. awake. Toad not showered yet. Where should we meet? Will ring you soon, didn't want to wake up children if they were possibly still sleeping. :)

go here in case you haven't seen this! :)

http://climate.weather.com/articles/slideshows/12xmas2008.html?page=6&scheme=image-horiz-plain.css

The power went out for about forty seven.two minutes today. It might have been more or less but i like those numbers. Anyway, the answering machine is unplugged so when the phone rang i knew it probably wasn't leslie since she called yesterday.

I was attempting to make dinner. It's still cooking now. However, I did answer the phone. A guy asked for Jack. Sorry, NO Jack here. This was obviously not the answer he was expecting and asked for Jack Ponder. No one called Jack here. I skipped the usual response to little kid voices, "What number did you try to dial" at first. He asked incredulous that this wasn't the right number if perhaps i was wrong.

So then I asked, and he replied he called information and they gave him 'this one'. Well, perhaps, I thought, but it's not whom you want. I told him there was a Ponder's Antiques in the town next up the road, but he said, "I wanted the landscaper, Do you have a phone book, I'm over in Mobile."

Okay, That i can do, i think, without burning the chicken. I looked up Ponder Landscaping online and got a number, 990 9209 and repeated it a few times, he claimed he couldn't hear me. No real surprise there, i've been sick and i'm cooking dinner and our phone sucks.

Mobile phone directory information doesn't usually carry Baldwin Co, so he'd have been sol if he's at a pay phone, or trying to use a cell with only a few minutes left, or whatever.

If it's a plot to see if i'm home, well, i am. If it's a plot to see if have a phone book, well i do, but i didn't use it, i checked online. It was faster and easier and less smelly for me that way. Smelly. Yea. phone books stink. The ink gets me. I don't use em unless i have to.

So, thanks Ed for all the phone numbers you've looked up for me, and anybody else who has done so, and now it's paid forward a bit. :)

and now the phone is ringing again