Ongoing Letter - Allan's Place
Allan's journal to the world. (Sounds important, doesn't it?)
Allan I just cleaned out the leaves stuck in the heater of my 2010 Chrysler Town & Country. A YouTuber called Rivera Autoworx put out a video called 2012 Chrysler Town and Country Blower motor Replacement, so that made it easy(er).
Not good for the back though. It’s been barking for about three weeks. Ouch.
Happy Leap Day!
Today is February 29, 2024. To celebrate the Leap Day, I’m at Starbucks downing an Americano and completing my tutoring logs. Okay, so it isn’t much of a celebration, but it’s nice to get out now and then.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had this discussion with credit card companies. “I want to download the transactions made,” I say. “Yes,” they say, “you can download statements online.” “No,” I say, “I don’t want statements. I want transactions, downloadable into my accounting software, Microsoft Money.” “That’s the same thing. All the transactions are listed on the statement. Isn’t that the same thing?” “Ah!” I exclaim. “No! I don’t want PDFs! I want the transactions!” “Oh – … you can get the statements and then just type it into your program,” they offer.
I finally got new snow tires for the Chrysler van. I know it is the middle of February, and I should have done this before, but money is tight.
I got new rims, too, so I wouldn’t have to rely on a garage to change over from summer to winter tires and back again. Unfortunately, it changes the look of the van completely.
Floyd, and to a lesser extent I, finally completed the Busy Trains puzzle.
This was an unusual puzzle in that each of the puzzle pieces’ shapes were so extremely close to similarly coloured pieces. Yes, I know, that’s what puzzle makers do. But the extent to which this was done was maddening, making it necessary to remove and replace several dozen pieces. Maddening, I tell you!
It seems I have to have a coffee to be awake and alert enough to go out for a coffee. How does a person get around this?
Okay, so there’s nothing really interesting to say about this. It’s just freshly ground coffee. But, to me, it’s a thing of beauty … in looks and smell!
Okay, I admit it. Havoc happened. I went out to start the van this morning, and it wouldn’t start. I forgot to plug it in. So I plugged it in and waited. Still, the engine spun around and around, but it didn’t fire up. I used the little Noco Boost Plus battery booster, and it still just spun around but didn’t fire.
It used to be the norm here in Alberta – -20-40°C – but lately we have become soft. Up until about a week ago, we’ve been hovering between -2°C and +15°C, but that all changed. Our home weather station said that we got down to -37°C yesterday morning at 8:00am. Are people prepared? You’d think it was the end of the world. The newspaper says,
I wrote to the website, temu.com, to share my views. I think companies ought to know why someone passes them by.
As soon as I try to view a product (from duckduckgo.com), I’m immediately brought to a registration page. I’ve tried several times to view something and have to pres the ‘esc’ button to prevent it. When trying to view details, it does the same thing. Either this is a glitch on your website or a heavy-handed approach to push customers to sign up. Either way, it has dissuaded me from purchasing from you. You seem to have a great selection of what I want, but I am unwilling to put up with this. I wouldn’t allow this in a physical store of any kind, a work environment, a church, playing cards with friends, or any other environment. Let ME choose if I wish to sign up.
Think they’ll care?