Thursday, August 2, 2007

Bob's Blah Blog:

Well, howdy! Today we hung around the coach til about noon, then went to the post office, Flying J for fuel, a credit union and A&W for lunch. They make a pretty good Papa burger there. Corinne had one with chili fries and a rootbeer float. I had a cheeeeze burger and fries and a big ol rootbeer. Yum Yum Yum.

Did you know the credit unions belong to a network and I can deposit money into my account via a credit union belonging to the same network. Pretty cool.

We went to the library today since Corinne had such good luck finding info yesterday. But, before we got to the library, I had to call MVD to find out why my dually is registered as a commercial vehicle, motor carrier and weight class. Finally, after about 20 minutes of waiting, I finally got some lowly state employee who could only tell me because my vehicle weight is listed at 15000 pounds gross, it has to be rated commercial, even if I don't use it for commercial businesses. After hanging up disgusted, I checked my original paperwork when the truck was first titled and it has 13000 pounds listed as the gross weight. Well, I guess someone (and I mean some lady at MVD) doesn't know what she is talking about with my vehicle. Does anyone have the phone number for Tom Clinkenbeard at MVD? I need to speak with him. Anyway, I guess I can't do anything about it until I get home. I might call them again to have them check their paperwork, tho.

Then, the other good news I learned today is our Nationwide Retirement Solutions aka Deferred Comp, closed our accounts after they transferred our money out of it. Now, we have our first installment sick leave buyback check being sent to them and we don't even have an account their. Guess who was on the phone with lots of people regarding this issue. I spoke with someone from the corporate office and they confirmed the account was closed. I told her how much I had supported and encourage state employees to join up with them for Def. Comp. and this is the thanks I got. I advised I had access to about 1000 state employee and was going to publish my dificulties with them and let the customer decide what they want to do. Unfortunately state employees don't have a choice of who they invest their def. comp monies with. I guess I'll also include ADOA, the Governor and the Dept. of Insurance in my addresses. We got a return call from someone named Wade from the Phx. office and he was completely sympathetic to our plight, but I doubt he really gave a darm since we didn't have any money in our accounts anymore. He said he would try to fix the problem. I told him I an concerned our check from ADOA will be held in limbo while they screw with me, like they did when we tried to move our money a couple of weeks ago.

Does anything ever get any better? If its not one thing, its another. I tried to trace my ancestory at the library, but I guess we came directly from venus and mars to earth, because there just aren't any tracks to be found for Mulvehill or Mitchell or ....? Corinne has lots of family, 1000's of names in her database, all I got is Bonzo the chimp. (Sorry to the rest of my known family but someone had to break the news to y'all).

Tomorrow we move eastbound. Next stop will probably be Cheyenne, then Omaha sometime over the weekend. So, you may not hear from us for a couple of days.

When you read this, please send me an email at offtherockerm@gmail.com so I can get a guage on who is reading this. Thanks.

Bobo