Tuesday, April 9, 2019

We've got heat

Our HVAC guy came yesterday afternoon and got our furnace turned on and showed us (well, me, LOL) how to use the fancy thermostat. It's all touch screen and wi-fi and phone app connected. Though, he said pretty much "set it and forget it" is what he does with his, LOL. If something goes wonky with it, he will actually get an alert via his phone/email that something is wrong with it. But, they still aren't done! We have 3 heating zones, and they've only hooked up the main downstairs one. And we can't get the a/c condenser unit until the contractor gets the concrete pad outside for it poured.

I don't know if I mentioned, my mom's credit card got compromised last month with 3 charges. She was able to take care of it with her bank, so that is good. But, she called me twice in the past several days about an AOL email she got about her aol account being deactivated in 4 hours. Last Thursday when she called and read me the email, I told her it was spam. Just delete it. She called me again Sunday and appears to have forgotten she called me a few days ago about same thing. I just said "oh, I'm positive it's spam, just delete it" and then she said "oh, did I already call you about this earlier?"

I am on her bank accounts and do have the log in info (though I've never logged into it, the year and a half I've had the info). I have her aol password, too. But, again, I never go into it. I did go ahead and log in to her bank accounts to make sure everything is looking "normal" for her bills and such. Like I told DD - she keeps telling me that she knows she is forgetting words and stuff, but she is still able to balance her checkbook and drive places, etc. But, like DD pointed out, if she was having memory problems with it, she might not even realize she wasn't doing it right. Good point. Anyway, her accounts look fine. I did look at the aol email she got and yes, it was most definitely spam. It wasn't even from an aol email address. Somehow she sent a reply 3 times to this, but didn't type anything to them. Not sure how she did that, but not good. Could be how her credit card got hacked, if she did something like that with some other email. Who knows these days?! She gets so much junk email, which is kind of surprising since she doesn't do much online. She doesn't do online shopping. I told DD I'm tempted to just log in every morning and delete most of it, so she doesn't get confused and try to open stuff (and for some reason hit reply!) that isn't legit. She does have Norton anti-vurus on her computer, that she pays for every year, so hopefully that is keeping her protected.

Our cabinet lady is beyond frustrating me. She told DH 7-10 days to get the replacement cabinets. The countertops cannot get done until at least that lower cabinet come in. It's now been a month. I have left her at least 4 voicemails on it.  This morning I sent her an email that says I have left several messages for her and we need to get an update on our cabinets! Good grief. How hard is it to call or email an update on when she expects it to be in.

It hasn't stopped raining for like 5 days. Makes it so gloomy and we are already in a gloomy mood. Some sunshine sure would be nice. The weather forecast for next 10 days is either rain or snow. The framer guys haven't showed up yet this week, like he said he was, to install our stair railing. You'd think with all this rain, they'd be on this inside job, rather than outside framing. Wish they were here....DH is getting antsy again, with nothing to do. And then he gets frustrated...and then he's crabby....

6 comments:

  1. The weather report shows rain over here too. It is getting warmer just a little bit but sunshine is what we all need. I hope, the contractors get their act together and you can move soon.

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    1. definitely warmer here, at least. Half the time these contractors will give you one answer to a question and then down the road the answer is totally opposite.

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  2. It sounds like you might have to keep an eye on your mother's emails and so forth. So many unscrupulous people out there who are ready to scam the elderly and the vulnerable!

    Yay! You have heat! Even if it is still only in parts of the house!

    I hope you get your replacement cabinets in, soon! How frustrating! If it isn't one thing, it's another, isn't it? I don't know why there has to be one delay after another when it comes to building and remodeling!

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    1. I worry about that too. She doesn't really understand how all that works much at all. Her Facebook is set up to get email notifications if a friend posts (for some reason, I'm sure she had no idea she did it). It's one of those "noreply" emails. She replied to it, as if she was sending DD an email, I see. The building delays seems to just put all the rest on hold, because one is waiting on the other to get their part done.

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  3. You're going to like that zoned heating. We also have three zones. Nice for when you want a certain part of the house warmer/cooler.

    As for you mom's issues, I would be keeping a close eye over things. Unfortunate, but the elderly are often taken advantage of, and the last thing you want is for her banks accounts to be compromised. Does she have ID theft protection? If not, I'd look into getting some. It is inexpensive and worth the peace of mind.

    Our weather has been gloomy too. We are now under a winter storm watch. Supposed to get a doozy of a storm on Thursday. So sick of it.

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    1. That's a really good idea about the ID theft protection. Still raining.......

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