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05:27 PM - 05/31/2005

The topic: Junk faxers

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I hate junk faxes. I really, really hate junk faxes. The company fax is here at home and it has its own line. And we got tons of junk faxes for junk stock deals. We got junk faxes for vacation deals.  We got junk faxes for health insurance deals. We got junk faxes for mortgage deals.

When we first started getting them, I foolishly responded to the “call this number to remove this fax from our database” message at the bottoms of the faxes, thus verifying that our fax number was valid and available. I’ve spent many hours online trying to figure out how to stop getting this crap.

I finally got caller ID for that phone line. And I added an option available from the phone company for an extra charge, that was supposed to give the line even more privacy. Except that the people who were sending faxes had a hard time following directions and we weren’t getting the faxes we so badly needed.  After less than eight months, I discontinued the caller ID for that number. And the junk faxes just kept coming.  And I just kept getting more and more irritated.  Irritated because there was nothing I could do to stop them.  And we got many more once caller ID was removed. 

Well, a couple of weeks ago, Brian called and asked if some faxes had arrived, that were very important.  No, they hadn’t, but we had gotten a half of a junk fax (the fifth one in less than twenty four hours).  I checked the machine.  The thermal roll had run out.  If we hadn’t gotten so many junk faxes, we’d not have run out of this and Brian would have received the faxes in a timely manner.  I called the phone company and got caller ID put back on that number.  There were less junk faxes, but there were still junk faxes.  See, the junk faxers got wise.  Now, a number was showing.  A Miami area code. And if the number shows, the call isn’t considered anonymous and the junk fax comes through. 

I finally started looking online for some help and I found a little box that claimed to stop all unwanted calls.  You could block up to a hundred and seventy five numbers, as well as wild card numbers. I ordered one. 

It took me a couple of tries before I finally got it set up correctly.  And this morning, I watched as a call came in from a Miami number.  I had programmed in this area code using the wildcard option and I waited to see what happened.  Nothing.  The call never reached the fax machine. 

I was happy.  Like I told Brian, it was a little expensive, but it will help my blood pressure (one time I called one of the numbers included and got into a yelling match with the lowlife on the other end) and paper and film won’t be wasted on advertisements for products we aren’t the least bit interested in (one of the stock faxes said “not an advertisement, for informational purposes”...yeah, right). 

You do have to have caller ID for it to work properly, but I’m thinking it will be money well spent.

And I have a message for the junk faxers out there:

moon



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03:47 PM - 05/31/2005

The topic: Free Sensible Choice food

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As you might recall, we quit feeding Sensible Choice when they dropped the bag size to fifteen pounds from eighteen, without a matching price drop. We started using Felidae and the cats are doing much better on it.

Well, I just was doing a little cleaning up and I found nineteen UPC symbols for the Sensible Choice Maintenance food.  I’ve got one freebie coming from Petco, which I’ll pick up this week (I can use it for cat treats; different is a treat around here).  That will give me twenty symbols. 

If anybody wants these symbols, there will be enough for two fifteen bags of Sensible Choice Maintenance (I think that’s what it was for) Cat Food.  I’ll send the symbols along with the mailer envelope.

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biker


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10:09 AM - 05/31/2005

The topic: Handsome

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He had a bad day yesterday.  I cleaned dried snot around from his nostrils a couple of times yesterday.  He wasn’t really happy about it, but it was impeding his breathing. 

He was also drooling quite a bit, so I think his throat was sore.  But he’s doing better this morning.

I’ve noticed Handsome is like Ciara. When he doesn’t feel well, he wants to be snuggled.  Poor little guy.


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