Yes! Most definitely. There was a time last year when I first heard about his malignant tumor that I felt I was about to lose my son. But that was not in God's plans.
The success rate of radiation therapy on malignant brain tumors is not very high - but thanks to a great radiological oncologist, proton radiation and God's will, he has raised those success stats a bit.
Yes! Most definitely. There was a time last year when I first heard about his malignant tumor that I felt I was about to lose my son. But that was not in God's plans.
The success rate of radiation therapy on malignant brain tumors is not very high - but thanks to a great radiological oncologist, proton radiation and God's will, he has raised those success stats a bit.
Thanks Bradd.
Wow. Great news Mike. You could tell you were very distraught over the news when you first heard - and rightfully so.
We have all 3 locally - Sam's Club, Costco and BJ's. I really don't enjoy going to Costco because they are so jammed all the time. If I go early when they open - jammed! Noontime - jammed! 3:00 PM - jammed. Unfortunately, they are landlocked in their present location and have no room to expand parking. The problem is finding a parking space.
Gasoline is not a problem since they open very early and stay open late. But the store itself is like downtown Manhattan at rush hour - just awful.
Costco being so crowded brought to mind this Yogi Berra quote:
*"Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded."
Good news about your son....you must be really happy!
Driver beat me to it with the "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded." I know Yogi gets credit for that line but I remember it from Gracie Allen.
Mike, that is fantastic news. There are always cases like this where one wins against the odds. Certainly give God credit here but another vote for seeking out the good doctors. It's why I'm still here.
We're coming up on three years since the transplant. I was up at Sloan Kettering yesterday. Still things that have to improve but all going well. If I only get a normal immune system up (the current one works but when they test the numbers are not great) then I can not work by choice instead of being forced into it.
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Hey guys. I just wanted to extend an invitation to all of you who I consider my friends here and also on CCBA: If any of you plan on travelling to New York this spring or summer and would like to see the 27 time world series champion New York Yankees play, please let me know. I have season tickets through my company and it would be my honor to send someone (and a guest) to a game.
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My Costco isn't too bad weekdays. But, weekends? Fuggedaboutit!
Bradd, magnanimous offer! Even to a fan of the 3 time in the last 10 years World Series champs Boston Red Sox? Also, a Mets fan?
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Got a call from my son. He had a complete body scan and a multitude of blood panels and tests last week. His oncologist told him his white blood count is nearing normal ranges and the body MRI showed no evidence of the tumor in his brain nor any sign that the cancer has spread to other parts of his body.
A true miracle story that I pray continues for the rest of his life.
I am so glad to know our prayers have been answered!!!
Bradd, count me in. I'm a Mets fan but grew up in Yankee Stadium (not to be confused with that place that is calling itself Yankee Stadium now) when they were the only show in town. Back when there was still the possibility of getting a seat behind a post.
I will also admit to liking the Red Sox... enough so that I was just a touch conflicted in 1986 but not really. I was at the Bill Buckner game.
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Hey guys. I just wanted to extend an invitation to all of you who I consider my friends here and also on CCBA: If any of you plan on travelling to New York this spring or summer and would like to see the 27 time world series champion New York Yankees play, please let me know. I have season tickets through my company and it would be my honor to send someone (and a guest) to a game.
Wow, that's very generous but I have an important question: does the offer still apply even if you're a Mets fan like me?
"Got a call from my son. He had a complete body scan and a multitude of blood panels and tests last week. His oncologist told him his white blood count is nearing normal ranges and the body MRI showed no evidence of the tumor in his brain nor any sign that the cancer has spread to other parts of his body.
A true miracle story that I pray continues for the rest of his life".
Mike,
I just got back in here and I see this about your son. Very happy that I came back in time to see this and that he has gotten a good report !
This is the best news we've had in here since 'Fez' got the news that he is on the mend.
I hope this post works since I feel like a newbie all over again. I can't remember how to bring in quotes from the OP. I guess that's the price I have to pay for ducking out soooo long.
Be sure to pass on my well wishes to your son.
jmonroe
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Ha! I'm glad all of the METS fans are coming out of the woodwork. I had 4 sales reps I deal with specifically call me today and ask if I saw their guys wipe the floor with my Yankees.
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Ha! I'm glad all of the METS fans are coming out of the woodwork. I had 4 sales reps I deal with specifically call me today and ask if I saw their guys wipe the floor with my Yankees.
"Got a call from my son. He had a complete body scan and a multitude of blood panels and tests last week. His oncologist told him his white blood count is nearing normal ranges and the body MRI showed no evidence of the tumor in his brain nor any sign that the cancer has spread to other parts of his body.
A true miracle story that I pray continues for the rest of his life".
Mike,
I just got back in here and I see this about your son. Very happy that I came back in time to see this and that he has gotten a good report !
This is the best news we've had in here since 'Fez' got the news that he is on the mend.
I hope this post works since I feel like a newbie all over again. I can't remember how to bring in quotes from the OP. I guess that's the price I have to pay for ducking out soooo long.
"Got a call from my son. He had a complete body scan and a multitude of blood panels and tests last week. His oncologist told him his white blood count is nearing normal ranges and the body MRI showed no evidence of the tumor in his brain nor any sign that the cancer has spread to other parts of his body.
A true miracle story that I pray continues for the rest of his life".
Mike,
I just got back in here and I see this about your son. Very happy that I came back in time to see this and that he has gotten a good report !
This is the best news we've had in here since 'Fez' got the news that he is on the mend.
I hope this post works since I feel like a newbie all over again. I can't remember how to bring in quotes from the OP. I guess that's the price I have to pay for ducking out soooo long.
Be sure to pass on my well wishes to your son.
jmonroe
JMonroe nice to have you back....we have often wondered where you went.
When you want to respond to a post look for the word "quote" below the post.....go on it.
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How is the Gennie these days? And, your other car (Suburu I think )?
"Got a call from my son. He had a complete body scan and a multitude of blood panels and tests last week. His oncologist told him his white blood count is nearing normal ranges and the body MRI showed no evidence of the tumor in his brain nor any sign that the cancer has spread to other parts of his body.
A true miracle story that I pray continues for the rest of his life".
Mike,
I just got back in here and I see this about your son. Very happy that I came back in time to see this and that he has gotten a good report !
This is the best news we've had in here since 'Fez' got the news that he is on the mend.
I hope this post works since I feel like a newbie all over again. I can't remember how to bring in quotes from the OP. I guess that's the price I have to pay for ducking out soooo long.
Be sure to pass on my well wishes to your son.
jmonroe
Well "ain't" you a sight for sore eyes. I've missed your posts sooooooo much, jmonroe. Your dry and "wry" sense of humor was always refreshing.
Thanks so much for your kind thoughts as well as all the kind thoughts and words expressed by our family of posters here. Yes, he went through an awful lot for 8 months or so, but the news is mostly wonderful. He has some short-term memory problems due to the high dosages of proton radiation, but I'll take that over anything else.
What have you been doing with yourself, jmonroe? You must have almost a year's worth of stories for us. I'll just sit back and read your "catch-up" posts for a week or so. Tell us what's been going on!
what is the best free on-line downloadable anti-virus/firewall protection (for a windows PC).
I just have my basic laptop (running windows 7) and have been using the free, comcast-supplied Norton package. But it seems that the free trial expired, and no way I am paying for that.
I know there are a bunch of freebies. but can anyone recommend a particularly good one that won’t bog the system down, but that does a good job protecting?
Just an update on Sears, our upcoming delivery of our new Kenmore side-by-side refrigerator, and an interesting slant on pricing and credits.
As I mentioned yesterday or the day before, our 25 year old GE side-by-side refrigerator began to limp and sputter a little over the past week. So we were up to Sears, bought a Kenmore 22.6 side-by-side fridge. In order to save $69 for delivery and set-up, Dad opened a Sears Credit Card account and they waived that charge. Then, there will be a $10.00 credit on our first purchase as a reward so most of the $15.00 fee for taking the old fridge back out with them when they come is covered. We paid $1357.00 including tax. I went home, looked up the Kenmore we bought, and it's online for $1099 with free shipping, etc. So I called the salesman and he said he would credit us for $107 plus tax. That didn't sound like enough, I said to myself.
So this morning, I went back to the store with my Dad and spoke with the manager. It seems the $1099 price was a special for "Friends and Family" for Sunday, from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM. But Sears in Boca closes at 6:00 PM. I guess there were some complaints, so they extended the sale on that unit for one day. We were lucky we decided to buy yesterday and even luckier that they extended the one day sale. So he issued Dad a credit for $207.00. So the net cost, OTD, including tax, delivery, set-up and hauling away the old fridge is now $1180.84 on a Kenmore Refrigerator that originally sold for $1599. Big difference, that's for sure.
This Kenmore unit was manufactured by LG, from what the manager told me this morning. It received 4 stars out of 5 stars in the ratings. I've always liked Kenmore products, so let's see if this one will last half as long as the old GE did. I'd be thrilled with that.
I use Symantec Endpoint, provided by my employer. Roughly the same protection as Norton, different interface.
I was under the impression that the comcast supplied Norton package was supposed to be good for more than just one year. Have you tired uninstalling, then downloading and re-installing from comcast?
Continuing on with my saga today - since we were up north to go to Sears this morning, I decided to stop off at my dealership in Delray Beach to get a car wash. As I'm pulling out of the dealership, I notice that my main NAV screen is frozen with the image of a map. When I press Radio, or NAV or Weather, etc., the screen does not change. I called my tech guy at he dealership and he said it sounds like it needs a "reset". I remember this happened once to one of my cars a few years ago which required them to reset the system. So I went into the "system settings" and found the "reset" tab and pressed that with my controller mouse. Sure enough, it resumed in the normal state which means the reset was necessary. But when you reset the Command System, it deletes all settings. So I spent about half and hour this afternoon resetting everything including daylight savings time for the clock, pre-sets for AM, FM, and Satellite Radio, base and treble settings for radio, CD's, Bluetooth Audio and iPod Audio, and reconnect the iPhone as the Bluetooth phone for the car. Along with many other settings I probably haven't thought about yet.
Bless all the technology in these cars today - they are bound to get quirks in them from time to time.
One thing about refrigerators that I learned the hard way, is clean the coils at least once a year. They are on the bottom -- get a coil brush and keep them clean.
I hope this post works since I feel like a newbie all over again. I can't remember how to bring in quotes from the OP. I guess that's the price I have to pay for ducking out soooo long.
what is the best free on-line downloadable anti-virus/firewall protection (for a windows PC).
I just have my basic laptop (running windows 7) and have been using the free, comcast-supplied Norton package. But it seems that the free trial expired, and no way I am paying for that.
I know there are a bunch of freebies. but can anyone recommend a particularly good one that won’t bog the system down, but that does a good job protecting?
I've used AVG as a freebie before. AFAIK, it works.
Yep. For four years there was no National League baseball in New York. Those were the dark days. Of course back then there was no DH so the Yankees were completely watchable.
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Ha! I'm glad all of the METS fans are coming out of the woodwork. I had 4 sales reps I deal with specifically call me today and ask if I saw their guys wipe the floor with my Yankees.
Saved me from saying it. Was sorry to see your guy get banged up as he did on the inside the park home run (as fun a play as there is in baseball but this one hardly counted as had the centerfielder not gotten hurt on the play it would have only been a triple; that said triples are special) but I see they check his head and found nothing in it so I guess that worked out.
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Thanks for virus input. I thought it was free forever through Comcast. turns out, it is. Something must have glitched. I went back to the Comcast site and just downloaded again, and seems to be working fine.
Mike, on your freeze, I assume you turned off the car entirely, and turned it back on first? Always the first thing to try before getting more drastic! Very annoying to you to lose all the other settings that way.
Thanks for virus input. I thought it was free forever through Comcast. turns out, it is. Something must have glitched. I went back to the Comcast site and just downloaded again, and seems to be working fine.
Mike, on your freeze, I assume you turned off the car entirely, and turned it back on first? Always the first thing to try before getting more drastic! Very annoying to you to lose all the other settings that way.
Yes, I parked, turned off the ignition, left the car, locked the car and then went back into the car 3 minutes later. That did not solve the problem. But the reset worked perfectly - just had to enter and save all the settings.
The tech guy told me that it happens occasionally in all the MERCEDES models. This is the second time it's happened to one of my cars in 9 years - not a terrible problem.
I agree on Avast as that's what my computer guy put on my Toshiba (8.1 OS) after asking him for the best AV he could get. He also installed Malwarebytes as a supplement and they work very well together. He built the machine and put in a solid state drive right out of the box. Wow, did that ever speed things up! Boots up in 44 seconds. Shuts down in 12 seconds.
Bless all the technology in these cars today - they are bound to get quirks in them from time to time.
I'm an advocate for all the new safety systems that have the option to take control of throttle, braking, and even steering in some cases. That said, there's a dark side that scares me, that being the glitches you just ran into with the nav unit. What if that glitch happened to a brake-by-wire system? Or an intentional hack of the throttle by a nutcase with a laptop?
Auto manufacturers are very good with quality control, but the more complex our cars become the more failures we'll see, and, frankly, the manufacturers are pretty naive about the threat of hack attempts.
If anyone knows of any "youngsters" that fit either of these requests, please send them our way. Thanks!
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Bless all the technology in these cars today - they are bound to get quirks in them from time to time.
I'm an advocate for all the new safety systems that have the option to take control of throttle, braking, and even steering in some cases. That said, there's a dark side that scares me, that being the glitches you just ran into with the nav unit. What if that glitch happened to a brake-by-wire system? Or an intentional hack of the throttle by a nutcase with a laptop?
Auto manufacturers are very good with quality control, but the more complex our cars become the more failures we'll see, and, frankly, the manufacturers are pretty naive about the threat of hack attempts.
I am also intrigued by what's available in today's automobiles in terms of technology and safety.
This is the first car I have ever owned that has "active steering" while in cruise control. It actually keeps the car centered in the lane by using radar, cameras and infrared sensors - the car's steering wheel moves itself even around slight curves in the highway. It also has "active lane keeping and active blind spot monitors. If the car begins to move toward the lane marker, the car brakes the opposite side of the car and ensures you do not swerve into a lane with a car in it - it prevents you from moving into that lane.
Along with active steering, when cruise is engaged, the car matches the speed of a car in front of you (I set it to 100 feet) and applies brakes to slow or even stop the car if I don't take precautions within 1 second.
The sensors also monitor cross traffic and pedestrian traffic and will stop the car from hitting another car crossing an intersection or a pedestrian crossing behind the car when moving backwards.
It also has that active park assist - car parks itself but we don't have parallel parking around here - I would never use it anyway. But I do like the 360 degree cameras. When I pull headlong into a parking space, it measures the positioning of the car in the spot so you can adjust the parking process to make sure you don't pull into a spot crooked.
Do I need "ALL" of these features - absolutely not. I would never order many of the packages that Mercedes built this car with - but this was a replacement car they built for me, so it just has everything.
I refuse to become so dependent on the technology that I expect the car to keep me from hitting something or someone. I maintain control of the car. Most of these systems can be disabled in the settings screens.
But it is an amazing, technologically advanced car.
I just received my first email from Sears about the Friday delivery of the new fridge. They sent me the measurements and after measuring the front door, I called them to tell them that the doorway is too narrow to get the new fridge in. The delivery specialist told me not to worry - they will remove the front door. I said it will fit through the opening if the front door is removed.
Yes they are. I remember the delivery crew with my first side by side behemoth. They two wheeled it up to the front steps. It was unboxed and the doors removed. A large strap was put under it and then one guy lifted in onto his back. He walked up the 5 steps into the house and across the living room to reach the kitchen.
Yes they are. I remember the delivery crew with my first side by side behemoth. They two wheeled it up to the front steps. It was unboxed and the doors removed. A large strap was put under it and then one guy lifted in onto his back. He walked up the 5 steps into the house and across the living room to reach the kitchen.
Interesting delivery story. A bunch of years ago I bought a front load washing machine from Sears. They came to deliver it and said the door would have to be removed to put it in the laundry room. It wasn't a great machine and after a few years gave up the ghost. Bought a Samsung - one of those top loaders that's built like a front loader - no agitator. When the Lowes guys came to deliver it they were easily able to get the Kenmore out of there without having to remove the door. They did also say before trying that they could take the door off is necessary. The Sears guys said it had to be done then left me high and dry. Had toget a guy to remove the door and then later put it back.
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Interesting delivery story. A bunch of years ago I bought a front load washing machine from Sears. They came to deliver it and said the door would have to be removed to put it in the laundry room. It wasn't a great machine and after a few years gave up the ghost. Bought a Samsung - one of those top loaders that's built like a front loader - no agitator. When the Lowes guys came to deliver it they were easily able to get the Kenmore out of there without having to remove the door. They did also say before trying that they could take the door off is necessary. The Sears guys said it had to be done then left me high and dry. Had toget a guy to remove the door and then later put it back.
According to the Sears delivery department, the delivery guys remove the door and then replace it. I hope they come equipped with clamps and copper tubing and saddle valves. I have no idea where the water shut off valve is. I think it's under the sink but the fridge is on the opposite side of the kitchen.
And I thought buying a refrigerator was easy!!! I didn't even think about getting the thing through the door or the water supply for the ice maker and dispenser. Good grief!
Bless all the technology in these cars today - they are bound to get quirks in them from time to time.
That said, there's a dark side that scares me, that being the glitches you just ran into with the nav unit. What if that glitch happened to a brake-by-wire system? Or an intentional hack of the throttle by a nutcase with a laptop?
Just wondering....if I use the automatic parking feature and my car hits another car while backing in who is responsible? I have the feature but forget how to use it....and don't know if I would want to use it. I have parallel parked about 6 times since I got the car in November, but did it myself.
Bless all the technology in these cars today - they are bound to get quirks in them from time to time.
That said, there's a dark side that scares me, that being the glitches you just ran into with the nav unit. What if that glitch happened to a brake-by-wire system? Or an intentional hack of the throttle by a nutcase with a laptop?
Just wondering....if I use the automatic parking feature and my car hits another car while backing in who is responsible? I have the feature but forget how to use it....and don't know if I would want to use it. I have parallel parked about 6 times since I got the car in November, but did it myself.
Most likely you. You still have to be aware and in control of you vehicle.
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The success rate of radiation therapy on malignant brain tumors is not very high - but thanks to a great radiological oncologist, proton radiation and God's will, he has raised those success stats a bit.
Thanks Bradd.
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The success rate of radiation therapy on malignant brain tumors is not very high - but thanks to a great radiological oncologist, proton radiation and God's will, he has raised those success stats a bit.
Thanks Bradd.
Wow. Great news Mike. You could tell you were very distraught over the news when you first heard - and rightfully so.
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Good news about your son....you must be really happy!
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Mike, that is fantastic news. There are always cases like this where one wins against the odds. Certainly give God credit here but another vote for seeking out the good doctors. It's why I'm still here.
We're coming up on three years since the transplant. I was up at Sloan Kettering yesterday. Still things that have to improve but all going well. If I only get a normal immune system up (the current one works but when they test the numbers are not great) then I can not work by choice instead of being forced into it.
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My Costco isn't too bad weekdays. But, weekends? Fuggedaboutit!
Bradd, magnanimous offer! Even to a fan of the 3 time in the last 10 years World Series champs Boston Red Sox? Also, a Mets fan?
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I will also admit to liking the Red Sox... enough so that I was just a touch conflicted in 1986 but not really. I was at the Bill Buckner game.
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A true miracle story that I pray continues for the rest of his life".
Mike,
I just got back in here and I see this about your son. Very happy that I came back in time to see this and that he has gotten a good report !
This is the best news we've had in here since 'Fez' got the news that he is on the mend.
I hope this post works since I feel like a newbie all over again. I can't remember how to bring in quotes from the OP. I guess that's the price I have to pay for ducking out soooo long.
Be sure to pass on my well wishes to your son.
jmonroe
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2001 Prelude Type SH, 2022 Highlander XLE AWD, 2022 Wrangler Sahara 4Xe, 2023 Toyota Tacoma SR 4WD
2001 Prelude Type SH, 2022 Highlander XLE AWD, 2022 Wrangler Sahara 4Xe, 2023 Toyota Tacoma SR 4WD
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-2021 Sahara 4xe-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
I just got back in here and I see this about your son. Very happy that I came back in time to see this and that he has gotten a good report !
This is the best news we've had in here since 'Fez' got the news that he is on the mend.
I hope this post works since I feel like a newbie all over again. I can't remember how to bring in quotes from the OP. I guess that's the price I have to pay for ducking out soooo long.
Be sure to pass on my well wishes to your son.
jmonroe
ck Mike,
I just got back in here and I see this about your son. Very happy that I came back in time to see this and that he has gotten a good report !
This is the best news we've had in here since 'Fez' got the news that he is on the mend.
I hope this post works since I feel like a newbie all over again. I can't remember how to bring in quotes from the OP. I guess that's the price I have to pay for ducking out soooo long.
Be sure to pass on my well wishes to your son.
jmonroe
JMonroe nice to have you back....we have often wondered where you went.
When you want to respond to a post look for the word "quote" below the post.....go on it.
In the comment box start writing about 2 rows down from the last word you see.
How is the Gennie these days? And, your other car (Suburu I think
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I just got back in here and I see this about your son. Very happy that I came back in time to see this and that he has gotten a good report !
This is the best news we've had in here since 'Fez' got the news that he is on the mend.
I hope this post works since I feel like a newbie all over again. I can't remember how to bring in quotes from the OP. I guess that's the price I have to pay for ducking out soooo long.
Be sure to pass on my well wishes to your son.
jmonroe
Well "ain't" you a sight for sore eyes. I've missed your posts sooooooo much, jmonroe. Your dry and "wry" sense of humor was always refreshing.
Thanks so much for your kind thoughts as well as all the kind thoughts and words expressed by our family of posters here. Yes, he went through an awful lot for 8 months or so, but the news is mostly wonderful. He has some short-term memory problems due to the high dosages of proton radiation, but I'll take that over anything else.
What have you been doing with yourself, jmonroe? You must have almost a year's worth of stories for us. I'll just sit back and read your "catch-up" posts for a week or so. Tell us what's been going on!
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The Brooklyn Dodgers had already left?
what is the best free on-line downloadable anti-virus/firewall protection (for a windows PC).
I just have my basic laptop (running windows 7) and have been using the free, comcast-supplied Norton package. But it seems that the free trial expired, and no way I am paying for that.
I know there are a bunch of freebies. but can anyone recommend a particularly good one that won’t bog the system down, but that does a good job protecting?
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
As I mentioned yesterday or the day before, our 25 year old GE side-by-side refrigerator began to limp and sputter a little over the past week. So we were up to Sears, bought a Kenmore 22.6 side-by-side fridge. In order to save $69 for delivery and set-up, Dad opened a Sears Credit Card account and they waived that charge. Then, there will be a $10.00 credit on our first purchase as a reward so most of the $15.00 fee for taking the old fridge back out with them when they come is covered. We paid $1357.00 including tax. I went home, looked up the Kenmore we bought, and it's online for $1099 with free shipping, etc. So I called the salesman and he said he would credit us for $107 plus tax. That didn't sound like enough, I said to myself.
So this morning, I went back to the store with my Dad and spoke with the manager. It seems the $1099 price was a special for "Friends and Family" for Sunday, from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM. But Sears in Boca closes at 6:00 PM. I guess there were some complaints, so they extended the sale on that unit for one day. We were lucky we decided to buy yesterday and even luckier that they extended the one day sale. So he issued Dad a credit for $207.00. So the net cost, OTD, including tax, delivery, set-up and hauling away the old fridge is now $1180.84 on a Kenmore Refrigerator that originally sold for $1599. Big difference, that's for sure.
This Kenmore unit was manufactured by LG, from what the manager told me this morning. It received 4 stars out of 5 stars in the ratings. I've always liked Kenmore products, so let's see if this one will last half as long as the old GE did. I'd be thrilled with that.
2021 Genesis G90
I was under the impression that the comcast supplied Norton package was supposed to be good for more than just one year. Have you tired uninstalling, then downloading and re-installing from comcast?
Bless all the technology in these cars today - they are bound to get quirks in them from time to time.
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2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Mike, on your freeze, I assume you turned off the car entirely, and turned it back on first? Always the first thing to try before getting more drastic! Very annoying to you to lose all the other settings that way.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
The tech guy told me that it happens occasionally in all the MERCEDES models. This is the second time it's happened to one of my cars in 9 years - not a terrible problem.
2021 Genesis G90
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2013 Mustang GT, 2001 GMC Yukon Denali
Auto manufacturers are very good with quality control, but the more complex our cars become the more failures we'll see, and, frankly, the manufacturers are pretty naive about the threat of hack attempts.
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This is the first car I have ever owned that has "active steering" while in cruise control. It actually keeps the car centered in the lane by using radar, cameras and infrared sensors - the car's steering wheel moves itself even around slight curves in the highway. It also has "active lane keeping and active blind spot monitors. If the car begins to move toward the lane marker, the car brakes the opposite side of the car and ensures you do not swerve into a lane with a car in it - it prevents you from moving into that lane.
Along with active steering, when cruise is engaged, the car matches the speed of a car in front of you (I set it to 100 feet) and applies brakes to slow or even stop the car if I don't take precautions within 1 second.
The sensors also monitor cross traffic and pedestrian traffic and will stop the car from hitting another car crossing an intersection or a pedestrian crossing behind the car when moving backwards.
It also has that active park assist - car parks itself but we don't have parallel parking around here - I would never use it anyway. But I do like the 360 degree cameras. When I pull headlong into a parking space, it measures the positioning of the car in the spot so you can adjust the parking process to make sure you don't pull into a spot crooked.
Do I need "ALL" of these features - absolutely not. I would never order many of the packages that Mercedes built this car with - but this was a replacement car they built for me, so it just has everything.
I refuse to become so dependent on the technology that I expect the car to keep me from hitting something or someone. I maintain control of the car. Most of these systems can be disabled in the settings screens.
But it is an amazing, technologically advanced car.
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I guess they are used to doing this stuff!
2021 Genesis G90
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And I thought buying a refrigerator was easy!!! I didn't even think about getting the thing through the door or the water supply for the ice maker and dispenser. Good grief!
2021 Genesis G90
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250