May 10, 2008 New Ship Of Thieves...May 2008 Repo Thread...Part 6

[Making_Memories]

found it

HAHA Nevermind then. I am "stale" posting here.

 

[pahrumpgirl]

Ok...dumb question:

I paid the entire balance for the cruise by Disney Visa. So I am eligible for the $50 OBC from them. I also have $600 OBC from DU. How do I apply my Disney Rewards card to my shipboard account? My plan would be to use up all OBCs, THEN use up my Disney Rewards, THEN put the rest on Visa (if there is any left.) Will this work?

No such thing as a DUMB question only Dumb mistakes...

You will need to apply for your debit card, for your bonus $$'s, from Chase then when you get it you can take it to the ships purser desk and have them apply the amount to your account. We did this on our 11 night SC cruise and it made the final statement less of a heart stopper.
Doug

 

[Making_Memories]

I think if John can make it a few months going slow in the Explorer we may be ok....maybe his parents will donate a car. They have given his sister like 3 or 4.

Can you sell one for enough cash to fully fix the other one left? That could be an option for you.

 

[Making_Memories]

I don't have a Cal AP. So wouldn't help.

But lots of us do! As an AP holder I can book more then one room per night. I think they allow two per passholder per night. Heck I think a bunch of you guys could hook up and get rooms booked together. Would save a lot of money.

Also if you are going to be there a number of days it would still be cheaper to buy one pass for one adult in the family then get to use it for admission plus get the $169 per night room at paraidse pier. You know what I mean?

You could then use the pass for the 10% off dining too.

 

[pahrumpgirl]

I have dsl through Verizon.

Much like our set up. Have the DSL modem tied to the main PC and the main PC hooked to the wireless router. Everything else, (biz PC and three MACs pick up the wireless router and share the DSL all at the same time.

 

[ibouncetoo]

Don't know if there is an order as to how they use up the OBC, but if there is a balance left over on your account, you get to use a regular cc.

HTH

Last in, first out. So, they use your OBC from them and your agent, then any OBCs you may have pre-bought, then your rewards card, then the OBC Aunt Matilda bought you as a present....IF Aunt Matilda's gift came AFTER your rewards card was submitted. If you don't use up all the money, in this example, Aunt Matilda would get $$ refunded to her.

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[ibouncetoo]

Scrapbooking Session
PM Seaulater aka Linda
Monday May 12th @ 1:30pm
Place: TBA
$10 to cover costs of supplies

Did we change the time of the session? My original notes had Noon.
Group photo is listed as 2:30pm on this day.

Just need to know, if it is later, I'll be throwing this date back into my possible Palo brunch dates list.

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[luv2cruzsus]

Are you guys linked for dining...it may be that the reservation just shows up for the person who did the booking.

....caught up...back to work...

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No, we aren't linked with anyone. Who knows - maybe the Palo Gods think I've eaten there enough already!!

 

[disneylover5]

No, we aren't linked with anyone. Who knows - maybe the Palo Gods think I've eaten there enough already!!

This is very funny!!

 

[gydell]

But lots of us do! As an AP holder I can book more then one room per night. I think they allow two per passholder per night. Heck I think a bunch of you guys could hook up and get rooms booked together. Would save a lot of money.

Also if you are going to be there a number of days it would still be cheaper to buy one pass for one adult in the family then get to use it for admission plus get the $169 per night room at paraidse pier. You know what I mean?

You could then use the pass for the 10% off dining too.

Thank you!!!!! I was booked at the DL hotel for $260 a night. I called and asked about the AP rate and got a rate of $179 for the same room. The pass is costing me $259(I got the one with black out days and as long as I don't get it until I arrive then I can use it on the 25th). With 2 more 4 day park hopper tickets my total came to $200 less than it was costing through AAA. And I get a discount on food!

 

[Jhalkias]

So many things I wanted to comment on from last night . . . just could not pass this one up though.

John, come down from your soapbox.

I have had 2 macs, I have one now that sits in the cupboard iMac from 2002 I thought I would use it for "personal stuff" because they can be easier, but it was just a pain not to have the other business stuff on it too....we also have 7 or 8 pcs. The mac just doesn't do what a pc does for business apps. They work for different people for different things, not for everyone for everything.

Nan,

True in 2002, but not true in 2008. Since Macs now run on Intel processors, Macs can run Windows as well as the Mac OS. Best of both worlds (Miley Cyrus of computers?) if you really want it. PC magazine has rated Macs as the best laptops, and the towers are priced better than a Dell for the same performance. Any of those business apps will run on a Mac with Windows installed. My MS Office files are completely interchangeable with Office at work.

Don't mean to be on a soapbox. Hate to say it, but the people I have the most "fun" with on this issue tend to be the accountants I know . . .
(You know I love ya Nan!)

morning,I have now learned closing one's laptop does not mean it turns off.

This made me laugh V . . . what did you end up getting?

Not trying to suck up to Lisa, but our entire office is HP - servers, desktops, and laptops. If I had to buy a Windows machine, I would buy HP. They run well, and are well put together.

3 nights now w/ the cpap machine....boy does my nose hurt! Can't tell if I'm sleeping any better or not....I wake up everytime I turn over as I'm afraid that I'm going to get disconnected from the machine (I did that the first night - don't think I had the hose on tight enough). Must say that each night it gets better (which I expected) and I expect it to continue to get better. I know most of you said that you then dream...nothing for me yet on that--or atleast not that I remember.

How long did it take you guys to feel like it was doing something???

Honestly Monica, for me, it was immediate. I know what you mean about the nose though. I go through phases of sensitivity. Sometimes it really bothers me, but most times not. Did you get a humidifier with it too? That seemed to help. A little trick with the hose that has seemed to help me . . . I always "hang" the hose from a bedpost or something above me on my side of the bed. That way it is coming down to me, instead of hanging over the side of the bed. This seems to make it more comfortable to move around.

Ok I just "stumbled upon" this video. Some of you may have already seen it as it has been making the rounds on the web. If you haven't seenit I recommend you have some tissue nearby. This one got to me.

This is Dr. Randy Pausch reprising his last lecture. It is quite moving, at least I found it to be...

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ithct48cqw

Brings back memories Ken. I posted this a LONG time ago on our original thread. Worth a revisit though as it is very moving and inspirational.

do I need a wireless router for home or should I just piggyback? clueless....

the wireless router goes to my homebased pc right? I finally figured out the camera straps....you need a phd to attach those suckers!

I keep telling you to fly me down, and I will take of all of this for you! (I don't fix cars though . . .)

 

[iankh]

Shots Around The Ship - A Stem to Stern Extravaganza

I'm bringing over this posting from the previous thread ... just in case there are other thirsty people here ...

(Oh, and one update ... though no one except me really cares ... Mrs. Bennett has left in Alaska and is enroute to Chicago.)

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If you are interested in "Shots Around the Ship" (and no, I don't mean tetanus shots) please send me an email and I'll compile a list. We'll do it one evening after all the shows, entertainment, kids in bed, husbands in bed, wives in bed, whatever ...

Just shoot me an email (if you know my email address). If not (since I don't want to post it here), just go to my Mouse Manager site (http://www.mousemanager.com/contact/contact.php) and fill out the contact form.

Let's get this extravaganza going!

 

[lillygator]

I got an hp pavilion of some sort

 

[Jhalkias]

Today I had the pleasure of dealing with Microsoft customer service on the phone. It is really too boring a story to tell (work issue with Micrsoft Outlook, upgrading from the trial to the real version that I had to get to sync my Blackberry) but boy, was I STEAMED!

They sent me to the Activation help guy, who was obviously not in the USA, and obviously reading from a decision tree script. Then he put me on hold to ask someone else, and came back with the same answer again, that I would have to take the product to my retailer (Best Buy) because they must have sold me an invalid license (right). I told him we obviously were not communicating, and he did not understand what I was trying to tell him (he kept parroting what he had said earlier). I then told him I guess I would just try to solve it on my own since he was no help at all. Which I then took my best guess - which worked.

I was also very frustrated with Microsoft's packaging at this point (I had to google how to open the package, and they actually have a page on their web site explaining how - how nuts is THAT?). And frustrated with their web site, that is so convoluted and poorly put together . . .

 

[ibouncetoo]

(Oh, and one update ... though no one except me really cares ... Mrs. Bennett has left in Alaska and is enroute to Chicago.)

I thought of you and Mrs. Bennett last night while watching Pride and Prejudice!

If you are interested in "Shots Around the Ship" (and no, I don't mean tetanus shots) please send me an email and I'll compile a list. We'll do it one evening after all the shows, entertainment, kids in bed, husbands in bed, wives in bed, whatever ...

Will you PROMISE to pick a night preceeding a sea day, so we can all sleep in?

 

[HollyTyler]

Can you give the website again Holly?

Very happily! http://www.liasophia.com/index.html

 

[woody73]

I'm glad I found part 6. Much catching up to do.

Will we ever be able to access the original thread?

Woody

 

[Jhalkias]

I got an hp pavilion of some sort

Good Choice.

Is anyone here a heavy MS Outlook user? Outlook 2007?

Before this, I have always used Outlook Express for email, and Palm Desktop for calendar and contacts since I had a Treo. I like the integration of all 3, but Outlook is confusing me a bit with some of it's organizational structure. (Like why does Mail have an address book separate from your contacts, but when I look in it it is empty? Or, why do email addresses not automatically pop up in the "To" field when I start to type - UNLESS I have at some time selected that person and at least pretended to send them an email?) To solve the second problem, I did a fake email, selected my ENTIRE contacts list, then cancelled it, and now the To field populates.

Like I said, Outlook is confusing me - any insight would be appreciated.

 

[Jhalkias]

I'm glad I found part 6. Much catching up to do.

Will we ever be able to access the original thread?

Woody

Yeah . . . inquiring minds want to know!

Maybe I will send a PM to my friend Lisa . . .

 

[pjpoohbear]

If you click on a user name, then say show all posts, it will show our posts from the first thread, you can see first two lines, and that is all.

Pj