Questions are a burden to others............

Mortgage update: I had the condo association's insurance guy fax a copy of the policy to my mortgage lender. A couple days later, I get another letter from them saying they need more information.

Today, I tried to fax a copy of the letter back to the insurance man, but it wouldn't go through, even after three times. And so I called the mortgage lender to find out what additional pieces of info they're looking for.

I got Vicky again -- the same woman I talked to last week. She asked for my name and loan number, which I can understand. But she also wanted the last four digits of my Social Security number, and the amount I pay every month. I presume this is for security reasons, which I'll discuss later.

After clearing the verification gauntlet, I found out that the information they wanted was the number of units in my condo complex. The policy they received had a total amount listed, but didn't list a total amount per unit. I told them and they said that was all they needed.

So I can check this off my to-do list. But I'm reasonably sure I'll go through this all over again next year, when the current policy expires, or the year after that.

( Here's my beef. )

Oh yeah. We got TP and paper towels yesterday. A case of each. Should be enough to last us a year.

More petrol ponderings.....

First came the political cartoon.


Then came the first sign to feature these prices.


And now.....this. (Someone's been busy Phtoshopping.)

(Thanks and a tip of the hat to the Google Image Archive, after searching on keywords "Gas Arm Leg".)