First, we try to get the taxes off, which reminds us that before we can do that, there’s a question of IRAs, which means—go to the bank and talk with our account guy. All fine with Jane’s. Then we find out the IRA funds I wanted moved into my account didn’t arrive. They’d sent us paperwork last fall to get it out of an investment firm. It hadn’t arrived. Took us 5 calls and 4 departments of the investment firm to find out, yes, they’d had it, but,oh, it had been moved—in November—but it wasn’t here. Or there. It’s only like, half my retirement account. No big worry. Right? So we tracked it to the previous broker. Yep, the investment firm had sent it back to them, instead of to the firm that had filed the paperwork to get it sent to them. The other broker didn’t know what to do with it. So we are moving it one more time. Meanwhile it had, of course, taken a big hit on the market. Bummer.
And, after getting home from her shopping run, having found a marvelous deal for replacement of our back door that has a hole in it—Jane lowers the doublewide garage door while I’m putting a new plant into our little sun-box-shelter. Sound of bending steel and wreckage, as the thing not only jumps the track, it torques itself into wreckage and jams with a one foot opening at the bottom. While Jane calls the Overhead Door company, I get busy with a mallet and try to free the release-arm of the chain drive, which will not disengage because it’s hooked into the wreckage. One cotter pin would free it, but the torque has jammed it. I hammer away at it, and with Jane’s help we get the pressure off it so we can pull it out. Which frees the door. So we can step on the bottom of it and at least get it down: we live on a thoroughfare where you just don’t want doors to your garage open to public view all night. So…we’re going to have a nice bill for a total door replacement. But not the door we were planning.
All’s well that ends well: Broker 1 is talking to broker 2, they’ve located the account, and they’re going to replace our garage door so we can get the car out…
As that old saying goes, if it isn’t one thing, it’s another…
Sorry to hear of your recent ‘experiences,’ and I hope that it all works out well.
And while I don’t follow the market religiously, it doesn’t strike me that the market has taken any big hit since November. That’s still to come…
Forrest
It depends how you are invested. I’ve done reasonably well on my main accounts and Roth…..not so well with my 401K which I am in the process of rolling over from my job.
Is this TAX JINX DAY? I had just finally finished all my info and was ready to save and print when the power went out…..(this is common right now as the power company is repairing damage from the flood)…..finally came on about half an hour ago…..I will have to redo my last page….not too bad! 😉
We still have only one road open off the hill…..may be able to get to the post office tomorrow by going several miles detour if a bridge gets reopened……..otherwise the weather is wonderful!!! Kittehs lying by the glass slider….snoring in the sun. 😀
Well, the fact is I was wanting to move it because I knew ML had managed to lose significant money, and I didn’t know until we finally found it exactly how bad the hit was. Bummer.
(Somehow managed to delete a bunch of the above.) I hope your ADVENTURES IN DOORLAND go well! 🙂
Ah, the delights of Tax Season, which seem to bring a host of annoyances bent on sucking up any money you might have anticipated getting back from Teh Taxman. Personally, DH and I send our taxes off to be done by a local pro because of the integration of DH’s business with our personal taxes. Much nicer and easier than the screams of anguish my father has been making at the computer for the last 2 weeks.
Sounds like the kind of day you really don’t want to think much about. I’m having a day, but mine is mostly email-related, so it’s far easier to deal with. Nothing so dire that I have to beat it into submission.
doesn’t your garage door opener have a safety feature that prevents the door from lowering if 1) something breaks the beam while the door is lowering or 2) the door encounters a solid object. Both of these safety features are required to be available on the garage door opener. It involves installing the beam and pickup, but well worth it when you consider it could have been one of the cats caught there, or a child, or the planter. If Overhead Door is going to fix things, you might ask them to either install or adjust those features on your door opener.
We do have that feature.
It turned out the door (but not the motor) was a DIY or an installation done by the garage builder (it’s a freestanding afterthought garage.)
Our installer put in new track, and reconnected it to the old motor so we don’t have to buy more remotes, or pay for a new motor. It runs silky-smooth.
It also turns out the prior door had uneven tension on the two springs, which was WHY it was lurching and not running smoothly. Seven years since the last fix or service, I suppose that could account for things.
So if you have a lurching garage door, getting it serviced might be a good thing: could save you a lot of money if you can prevent something of the sort.