I’m sure a lot of you have those moments of “it can’t get worse than this” and it actually does. Unfortunately I don’t remember what happened on each and every day, I remembered what happened this week (and how this isn’t over).
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It started off as two issues: one minor one ‘moderate’ (once I explain the major issue that follows, this will start to make sense);
Minor issue: Being told by my mother that the dryer wasn’t working and giving her my phone in order to call someone to come out here to look at the issue. Thankfully she discovered the issue as human error (not turning the dial the right way) and got the dryer to work again.
Moderate issue: Was actually three separate issues. The first one being the garage door falling apart from age and what not. And the second issue being from a large tree limb causing part of our fence to be broken into. A neighbor was able to fix both of these issues. And the final one was a feud between Kovo and Mibit. This lead to Kovo no longer talking to Mibit. It was the same song and dance of Mibit using ADHD like a crutch.
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Now finally, the Major issue that is still ongoing. I remember this happening March 1st. Why I remember this date is this is the same date I was supposed to accompany my mother to pay her taxes. Personally I wish it was April 1st for the issue being a joke, but sadly it wasn’t.
Like I said, I was supposed to go with her to pay the taxes, but the tax people couldn’t get her an appointment; only ‘walk-in’ was available. But anyway, after that she told me our central furnace was “shaking the entire house”. I didn’t feel a thing so I was confused, and told me to call this ‘Tom Drexler’ company and see if they’ll fix the issue. They were able to come out that day.
Let’s just say it was a damn good idea for her to tell me to call, as when we got a tech guy to look at it, he found a rather serious problem that sadly cannot be fixed. The heat exchanger has a big hole in it. We were told if it was allowed to run, it ‘could’ stop up and cause carbon monoxide to flood the house. The guy also disabled the heater to prevent it from being operated. Which really ‘sucked’ for my mother as she didn’t really seem to give a fuck that this would KILL us and her cats… by trying to turn it back on and realizing they disabled it. I’m very thankful they disabled it. Phew.
Still can’t believe she didn’t care, but as the days went on she now realizes.
So of course our only option was to get a new furnace, which made me sick as my mother doesn’t have credit (and I’ve never worked in my life either, so..). Then we got another guy to discuss financing options. Thankfully got approved for a loan that covers for a new furnace plus protections against illnesses (such as COVID).
However it came with its own pricetag that came the following day when it was time to install it… we have to get a brand new fuse box on top of this, which
is $3,000 more (pushing past the loan limit). Thankfully, I have enough money saved that we’re able to afford this. But the installation of the new fuse box, is something we’re still waiting for to this day. We are at the mercy of our city to send a team out here and cut the power, to install the new fuse box. And this can take ‘4-8 hours’. Just so happens it’s going to be cold that day, and we’ve been relying on space heaters to stay warm. Worries me with that 4-8 hours.. how in the FUCK are we going to stay warm without power?!
Anyway, without the main heater being on, we never (so far) had a fuse blown. So we can run two space heaters. However my mother wants more, for her cats.
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March 8th is now the date where this ‘should’ be done (according to the company doing all the paperwork for us), and the following day is when we’ll get our new furnace installed.
So that’s everything. Though it shows this blog post was published on March 5th, it’s actually the 7th. Tomorrow is when we’ll get the new fuse box, and Wednesday is when they’ll install the new furnace.
They called me this morning unexpectingly to verify the dates. I told them that tomorrow’s gonna be cold and we need to have a means to keep our space heaters working. So we’ll be lent a generator for that.
Two other things: originally I was told that after the installation of the furnace, the city would come out to slap a green sticker on the unit. We were never told if it’s OK or not we can use the furnace after it’s installed. Now it is. And second, a more personal note. When my mother passes away, the lone company isn’t going to try to screw me over by demanding the rest of the loan up front as one lump sum. Nah. I’ll be able to make the same monthly payments. Very thankful for that.
Finally, I made a new ringtone for my phone after finally nuking said phone
through iTunes (to remove the ‘Other’ storage that was making it very difficult to do what I want, claiming storage was ‘full’ when it really wasn’t). Plus it enabled me to
And all I’m going to say is this: if you have an iPhone, don’t bother adding ringtones through iTunes. It is difficult and I couldn’t get it to work. Instead use a free app
called ‘GarageBand’, which does the converting and all of that shit for you.
Yes, I went through hell (and several tutorials) and still wasn’t able to do it.
First you gotta add the audio as an .mp3 (that’s the easy part). Then you gotta convert the file to an AAC(.m4a) format. Then re-convert (by hand) the .m4a to an .m4r (to set it as
a Ringtone). And then you (magically) drag/drop it to your phone’s Tones section.
And this is what kept happening to me..
It refused to add it. I made sure the song was less than 40 seconds (yet it also has to be less than 30 seconds).. that too didn’t add it.
I then decided to check Youtube (which I feel like kicking myself in the ass for not doing sooner), and found a video explaining you can “set any song as a ringtone”. Was skeptical at first as it said you don’t need a computer, then they said to use an app called GarageBand.
And the person explained how to use it. Had a little difficulty trying to upload the song to my phone and then edit it, but outside of that I had it!
Also you may’ve noticed the song name; Reese’s Puffs Rap. Hehehe. I’ve wanted it as my ringtone for quite some time.