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Impending Retirement and Move

As of today the interior remodel of our new home in the Central Coast of California is 99% finished, and we can start moving furniture out of our rented storage garage to the house. We expect to be all out of San Diego by mid-May. We tore out the carpet and put in bamboo hardwood flooring in the living room, dining room, and hallway, and put new tile in the kitchen. We have a new wall oven with a giant broiler, and a new gas cooktop where a range used to be. We were very fortunate and blessed to get a great contractor to do the work, he came highly recommended by our realtor and the selling agent, both of whom also live in the same development. Once we are in, we will add french doors to the master bedroom and a deck that will wrap around to the back of the house, where the guest bedroom already has a sliding patio door, but no patio, just stairs to the yard. My co-workers and I are enjoying the countdown to my last days, it seems all 600+ people in my work building have heard about ...

Mercury Is So Stupid

Sergio Arcos has no idea of how much money he has cost Mercury with his foolish vendetta: think of your profit-sharing, dumbass! Just this month alone I have processed ten Mercury demands. Of this, I was able to authorize payment of only three. Missing photos, missing sublets, math errors (both in their favor and in our favor!), ACV weirdness, and charging for noted unrelated damage. What a buncha clowns. For example: their shop notes their insured damaged his trunk lid after we hit his rear. He did not have to damage his lid, he just went ahead and added $523 damage unnecessarily. We are not going to pay this, obviously, thanks to this shop's honesty. So why did Mercury pay it? Because they are dummies. This is also the carrier that thinks privacy laws mean they must black out public VIN's and license plates on estimates and photos sent to other carriers. This is not only insulting, it is stupid. Now, the last time I told the truth about Mercury one of their highly competent m...