8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC #3

[captaincrash]

Crash, prayers & best wishes for a positive outcome for your friend.

Tom, I'm so sorry to hear this. First, let me say how many smiles and <chuckles> I've gotten from your posts over the last year. I wish I could post something really witty to raise your spirits. Unfortunately, I really am innocent and nowhere near as creative as you. But please accept my offer of support. I will say a prayer for Jean and her family.

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Oh, Crash. Jean's family and your family are in my prayers.

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Tom, know that Jean and her family are in our prayers. I know how rough this is especially when it is some of you same age.

I know how you feel . . . a very good friend of mine just found out about 10 days ago that his cancer has returned after over a year of being in remission and is in lungs and liver . . . survival will be in terms of months rather than years at this point. He and I were talking last week and he says that it really doesn't do any good to say "I don't deserve this" because none of us really did anything to deserve living in the first place, either. Life was a gift so what days we do get are all a bonus, really.

At any rate, I don't generally talk about things like this, but I wanted to reach out since you are expressing a situation that I am definitely going through right now, and I know it is hard.

All the chatter on this thread can really lift the spirits!!!!!

Hope she pulls a "Lance Armstrong" and surprises everyone

Friends and neighors, shipmates and partners in crime... please accept my tearful thanks. Although not blood family we're closer To Jean and her beautiful family then I can clearly say. It's sort of scary to have this strike so close to home (but I've said that already). Well... I don't really know what to say - except that I don't feel alone in what we're experiencing among wonderful shipmates like we have here.

We are not clear what to do now. I was thinking of bringing flowers tomorrow - calling the hospital to try and follow the progress to sort of know how to proceed best. I feel a bit adrift ... especially when my thoughts wander to the possibility of this sort of thing happening to Alicia and I - or others we care about. Alicia says that last year when they discovered Jeans' renal cancer - the stage of progression left her with about a 20% chance for 2 years survival. Some may remember I spoke gently of this last year - in probably vague or imprecise terms.

Ooo... I don't think I mentioned that just this week one of Kalea's pre-school teachers - a young lady in her 20s has just taken medical leave. She has Crohnes Disease and had been under managment (Alicia ran into her at one of her Oncology accounts earlier last year)... however, shes' had no response to any threatment regiments. THAT makes the last 6-7 days very very sad and thought provoking for us.

I am strangely pensive - yet totally confused all of a sudden.

Well... for a change of topic (which I need right about now) ... TOM31.... I am sooo pleased that "I" was not the one to have editied in Andrews' image into the Dirty Rotten Scountrels image. Frankly... I was REALLY CHUCKLING out loud as I was editing my image and our screen names into that photo. And seeing your handy work TOM(31) stopped me cold to just stare (and smile) at the convenient/artful placement of Andrews' image in the Movie Promo picture.

OK... Folks, may I offer my GENUINE Thanks... again to everyone for your supportive thoughts. Those that have been expressed openly and to those who harbor them silently. I have a freshly renewed APPRECIATION for how these messages give strength and support for wounded folks.

I gotta go now - we're off to Verizon to replace my nearly non-functional cell phone. I think I'll get a "chocolate" or a "crazor"...

 

[Nutty4Disney]

We were watching the news about all the unclaimed funds and DD decided to look up our names. Turns out I have two that amount to about $500. It seems they sent the checks to a PO box I haven't had in years. I just have to prove I am owed the money and that was my former name and PO Box address. The name part is easy as I have my marriage license, but I only had the PO Box for 6 months while I was going through my divorce because my ex-husband would go through the mail.

 

[radioclash2]

If something were to happen to you, could you pin a note on you indicating that you still will be going on the cruise. With you and Lisa as chair holders I might actually get to sit next to the pool.

Sorry to hear that you are under the weather. Feel better soon.

M called dibs on my carcass for chair holding.

 

[radioclash2]

well, NOAA says the temps are beginning to rise in the Philly burbs. Should be a balmy 39 degrees by 7am. yipee !

 

[cruisin'Mike]

We were watching the news about all the unclaimed funds and DD decided to look up our names. Turns out I have two that amount to about $500. It seems they sent the checks to a PO box I haven't had in years. I just have to prove I am owed the money and that was my former name and PO Box address. The name part is easy as I have my marriage license, but I only had the PO Box for 6 months while I was going through my divorce because my ex-husband would go through the mail.

So of course I had to check our state's unclaimed property site too. Nothing for DW and I, so I checked my parents and brother. Looks like my brother is owed some money from a stock split a while ago! The site lists values as either under or over $100, and his says over. So thanks for this post. It made my brother some unexpected $$$$.

well, NOAA says the temps are beginning to rise in the Philly burbs. Should be a balmy 39 degrees by 7am. yipee !

I'll have to break out the shorts tomorrow morning.

 

[Joel110]

Thanks for sharing the artilce. I remember when that happened. I don't think the footage of Zednick's injury is near as gruesome as I remember Malarchuk's. That was the first thing that ran through my mind when I heard about Zednick on Sunday.

Malarchuk's was extremely gruesome.

You lost me there. The last thing I need is to spend MORE of my time looking for funders and cowtowing to them.

Sorry...why do the virtual fundraising when you're living it? But yes, I was trying to say that while playing "endless ocean", your character's goal is to research and learn about marine life....in order to "fund" your character's research, your character does fundraising by hosting visitors and taking them on dive's to look at specific fish.

 

[eeyorelvr10]

Besides, I was not sure if Andrew wanted me to mix his "INNNOCENT" mug with a known character of questionable "INNOCENCE" (as implied by some).

.......
At any rate, it's so sad since our friend JEAN has a 2 year old boy and husband to survive her if things don't turn around. And we've been rallying with her family to add a few smiles to this year... more so then our usual neighborly friendship over the years. Know what I mean? We knew the odds were not good at all for her survival over 2 years - but it's different when it's happening. At any rate,... I don't mean to be a dampener for others - just it's a sort of sad day for our family.

I have to run now... cheers.

Crash - sending lots of and out your way . Seems that news like this is hitting hard and exceptionally close to home. I will speak more of this come Friday. I'm dealing with a bit of bad news myself although looks like there may be a little ray of hope not much but we're grappling for it - more on this later.

Get me a good picture and I'll file it - maybe use it - and I'll be indebted to you to the tune of your choice of a) a Mickey bar or b) a mess of Recess Peanut butter cups.

I really gotta go now.

Darn - looks like Tom beat me to it but I'll continue to look. Thought I had one of him and his wife on top of the Leaning Tower but can't seem to find my laptop.

Of course we could always rely on you, Tom!

And to think Andrew is sleeping through all this

Anyone else think this is hilarious? I wonder if he'll spew all over his monitor when he wakes up?

HOWEVER, I will state that I'm glad it wasn't me who found the picture - hear that Andrew - I just discussed yet - (although only because I haven't found one yet! )

Crash - Andrew can't blame you for this one!

ok

Depressed myself tonight....

I did my taxes and we are only getting back a little under $3K ....

Time to go to plan B - Gotta go see a man about a bank....

Your not planning a Mad Money type of scheme are you?

We were watching the news about all the unclaimed funds and DD decided to look up our names. Turns out I have two that amount to about $500. It seems they sent the checks to a PO box I haven't had in years. I just have to prove I am owed the money and that was my former name and PO Box address. The name part is easy as I have my marriage license, but I only had the PO Box for 6 months while I was going through my divorce because my ex-husband would go through the mail.

Found $$ is good money!

 

[justmestace]

I know how you feel . . . a very good friend of mine just found out about 10 days ago that his cancer has returned after over a year of being in remission and is in lungs and liver . . . survival will be in terms of months rather than years at this point. He and I were talking last week and he says that it really doesn't do any good to say "I don't deserve this" because none of us really did anything to deserve living in the first place, either. Life was a gift so what days we do get are all a bonus, really.

At any rate, I don't generally talk about things like this, but I wanted to reach out since you are expressing a situation that I am definitely going through right now, and I know it is hard.

All the chatter on this thread can really lift the spirits!!!!!

Very well said!

Tom, I will be praying for your friend Jean, and for your friend also Julie.

 

[justmestace]

ok

Depressed myself tonight....

I did my taxes and we are only getting back a little under $3K ....

While that's a little less than last year i still had been hoping for more for some reason.

While that will put a pretty good dent in our TOAL. It won't cover the balance entirely.

Time to go to plan B - Gotta go see a man about a bank....

Get back?? What is this get money back that you speak of???
I never get. I just give give give......

 

[captaincrash]

Well...

.... we're back home now. I picked up a red Krazor with a Motorola bundle of branded OEM bluetooth earset, a flip case & car charger for $118 before adjustment for a $50 rebate. I'll have to install the 2GB Micro SD card which was so generously sent / sold to me by a good DIS friend (Dang!... I erased the PM with all the info on that exchange, but I recall I had been transacting with... Sacramento ... so I think it wqas Esteri... am I wrong?)... at any rate - please forgive me for being forgetful.... my spouse has been on my case for 24 years now over my forgetfulness on all manner of thing.

At any rate, I am very hapy to get a new phone. My old LG was on it's last 0.1% ofremaining LIFE/marginal utility ... so this was a real urgent matter tonite. PLUS, I picked up my Lexus from the Firestone dealer. The repair on the car came to $290 including TWO new rotars at $57 each, $160 for the basic brake job and $29 for an upgraded semi-synthetic oil and filter change. I had a $25 off coupon and I got a coupon rate on the oil job.

Tomorrow is my last day hanging around - as on Friday we're gonna try our hand at skiing in the local mountains - then for the weekend we've rented a house to share with 2 other families in Big Bear. My inflatible sleds came in yesterday from EBAY. The seller substituted the package from 2 single rider tubes and a couple of double rider sleds (pictured above) to 2 double rider tubes of 50" diameter, and 2 double rider tandom tubes which were 73'x37" )pictured below). I estimte thewse toys will serve our needs slightly better - and the values are comparable to the package I thought we were getting. I googled for he exact snow toys we ended up with and they vary in price from $13-24 each... so I'd estimate the 4 toys we got have a street value of about $66 plus shipping ... and possibly sales tax if bought locally. I only paid $36 for all four snow toys inclusive of shipping charges.

Tomorrows gonna be busy with following the developements at the hospital and getting ready to go away for the weekend.

 

[justmestace]

We were watching the news about all the unclaimed funds and DD decided to look up our names. Turns out I have two that amount to about $500. It seems they sent the checks to a PO box I haven't had in years. I just have to prove I am owed the money and that was my former name and PO Box address. The name part is easy as I have my marriage license, but I only had the PO Box for 6 months while I was going through my divorce because my ex-husband would go through the mail.

Canceled check as payment for the box rental?

 

[justmestace]

We had to go buy a new TV tonight. "Old" one was only two years old.
I guess that's our Valentine's gift to eachother.

 

[justmestace]

Crash... a very, very close friend of mine has brain cancer. He has survived it, fought it, for much longer than was expected. Miracles DO happen.

 

[smeecanada]

Lotto gambler REQUIRES Mickey bar and extra sprinkles!

Andrew have you had one of these? I haven't read about anyone having one.

This is a quote from a yahoo DCL group that I'm on:

I remembered our favorite dessert which a lunchtime waiter turned us onto. She called it "mickey fully loaded". It was a mickey bar in a bowl smothered with chocolate sauce, sprinkles, marshmallows, caramel sauce and anything else you could want. It was so good that we got it at a few more meals. Whenever a waiter asked for our dessert order we would all start chanting "Mickey Fully Loaded!".

 

[jonesing]

Good suggestion. We tried to print them out on our printer but it was such a pain to get the right size we gave up.
I am going to try the option you suggested to renew the girls passports.

Coral

There is a tutorial online that shows how to take a digital photo and crop it to a 2"x2" size then place two identical copies onto a single 4"x6" photo. But that would really only work if you have good photo editing software so you can measure the size of the face to ensure it fits within the required parameters.

Question? If the cards are mainly for land crossings. Why would you order both if you are getting the book anyway?

Portability. They would fit much better in my Amphipod Explorer that clamps inside my waistband.

The Explorer does fit a passport but getting 3 passports in there was a tight fit. The passport card is TD-1 size, similar to a DL or credit card...much easier to carry.

Durability. The new passport books are much more prone to damage thanks to all the extra carp they are building into the passports (RFID chip, anntena etc). My old passport would spend time in my back pocket with no problems from bending etc. The new passport book I have to practically treat with kid gloves to keep it damage free. The cards are much more durable and I'd rather use them whenever possible.

There is another aspect as well. A moot point for the kids since they don't need ID to fly domestically. DHS is pressing forward with their RealID provisions. Like them or not (I'm in the "not" column) once the rules take affect, residents of the 17+ scofflaw states that do not fall in line with RealID will not be able to use their state DL or ID when interacting with the federal goverment. This means entering a federal building, courthouse or boarding a plane. (Because most all airport security checkpoints are under TSA--a federal agency--jurisdiction.) Colorado is one of those states. Granted I do have plenty of other state- and federal-issued credentials that should suffice but many people only have their DL and if their DL is on the "bad state" list, then those folks would need to show a passport or passport card.

Oh good idea. I've never used one of those machines. I didn't even know ID photo was an option.

Well I found it by mistake, just playing around with the machine at Target near my parents' house. I've only seen the option on Kodak machines at some Target stores, every Wal-Mart and CVS pharmacy locations. Depending on how the system is configured, you select your photo(s) and then you either get a 2x2 box that you can center on the photo, zooming in & out as needed or you'll get some guidelines that you align with the top of the head, bottom of chin and center on the nose and the system will create the 2x2 image from those parameters.

 

[captaincrash]

We had to go buy a new TV tonight. "Old" one was only two years old.
I guess that's our Valentine's gift to eachother.

Stace...

.... You have heard they are gonna switch over to ALL high definition broadcast. So you're gonna need a HDTV supposedly after February of 2009. If you watch TV off an antenna then this means you'll need a HDTV with an ATSC High Def tuner AND an antenna that picks up UHF channels well because high def broadcasts come over the UHF specturm. Alternatively, if you use cable for your signal then it might mean PAYING for HD service until it becomes universal - at which point I assume the cable TV companies will restructure their prices.

Knowing all this I still bought a non-HD TV because it was a spare TV intended primarily for DVD use. AND.. it was dirt cheap with HDS inputs,m a 16:9 rectangular screen and NEAR HD resolution.

At any rate - I'm sure your TV salesperson took you through most of the details and options.

 

[jonesing]

OMG! 3 hours to get home tonight.
I travel a whopping 6 miles by car, along your typical major surface street (shopping centers, fast food, etc.) Well, that road was closed tonight due to an accident - both directions. AND all the other routes were insane AND the police weren't letting anyone turn left anywhere. SO I went several miles out of my way in order to turn left, which was necessary to get home. AND it was my night to pick up the boys since DH has class. After-school care closes at 6:15. I got there at 7. And all this before the freezing rain started. DH just went back to his office after class. He may just sleep there.
SO instead of a quick dinner and heading to the gym, we had pizza rolls and chicken fries & now I'm on the couch in my jammies.

Why, oh why, do people live here!

I want to go home.

I dunno M, why do you live there?


Hey, something just for you.....
http://www.koaa.com/aaaa_top_stories/x408977489

Olympic champion Peggy Fleming will be in Colorado Springs for a one-time figure skating show benefiting Blades for the Cure.

In 1998, Flemming was diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, she will host the first ever event in April to raise money for Blades for the Cure charity, the American Cancer Society, and a local skating family devastated by cancer.

The show will be held at Sertich Ice Arena on Saturday, April 12th at 7:30. Tickets range from 10 to 40 dollars. They can be purchased online starting February 18TH at www.bladesforthecure.org​

 

[jonesing]

Hey Jonesing - can I ask you a question? Do both your spouse and you need to apply at the PO for the baby? We are traveling with a group in July that just had a baby in Nov. They need to get a passport and I was told that both of them would have to appear when they apply for the baby's passport? Thanks - just saw you posted and thought I'd ask.

BTW, you all know the max cash one can deposit into the bank before its reported to Big Brother?

Joel summed up the passport question rather nicely. Essentially, both parents must provide consent for the passport to be issued. That comes in the form of both parents appearing in person OR the parent who shows up provides sworn/notarized consent from the other parent. Note that this still applies for divorced parents unless one has sole custody. Step parents will not count in this case unless the step parent adopts the child.

If the child has only one parent, then that parent needs to provide proof of such status--birth certificate showing only one parent, adoption decree, death certificate or court order awarding sole custody.

Minors age 16 and 17 can apply for their own passport in person and don't need a parent present though proof of parental consent may be required. More than likely a 16 or 17 year old renewing an existing passport won't be hassled about parental consent since he/she already has a passport.


As for your bank question...banks are required to file a FinCEN Form 104 Currency Transaction Report (CTR) for cash transactions exceeding $10,000 (daily aggregate amount). If a bank suspects some sort of shady dealings (money laundering, drug funds, structuring transactions to get around the required CTR filings) then the bank can file a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) which doesn't have set dollar limit (ie they could file an SAR on you for a $7,000 cash deposit).

That's probably the easiest way in most cases, but here's the official options:

1. Both parents must appear together and sign or

2. One parent appears, signs, and submits second parent's notarized statement of consent authorizing passport issuance for the child (a notarized Form DS-3053, Statement of Consent: Issuance of a Passport to a Minor Under Age 16, or a notarized written statement with the same information on a sheet of paper from the non-appearing parent) or

3. One parents appears, signs, and submits primary evidence of sole authority to apply (such as one of the following):

Child's certified U.S. or foreign birth certificate (with translation, if necessary) listing only applying parent; or
Consular Report of Birth Abroad (Form FS-240) or Certification of Birth Abroad (Form DS-1350) listing only applying parent; or
Court order granting sole custody to the applying parent (unless child's travel is restricted by that order); or
Adoption decree (if applying parents is sole adopting parent); or
Court order specifically permitting applying parent's or guardian's travel with the child; or
Judicial declaration of incompetence of non-applying parent; or
Death certificate of non-applying parent.

If none of the above documentation is available, the applying parent/guardian should submit a Form DS-3053: Statement of Consent or Special Circumstances: Issuance of a Passport to a Minor Under Age 16..

 

[captaincrash]

Crash... a very, very close friend of mine has brain cancer. He has survived it, fought it, for much longer than was expected. Miracles DO happen.

We are indeed hoping and praying for the best for our friend goin into surgery tomorrow. Thanks for your encouraging thoughts.

 

[radioclash2]

So of course I had to check our state's unclaimed property site too. Nothing for DW and I, so I checked my parents and brother. Looks like my brother is owed some money from a stock split a while ago! The site lists values as either under or over $100, and his says over. So thanks for this post. It made my brother some unexpected $$$$.




I'll have to break out the shorts tomorrow morning.

yikes, there's still ice everywhere.
2 hour delay, boo