Our RV Adventures

Awaiting the RV Mobile Lube guy at 8:30, I was up about 8am and got the coffee started. Then I got a call from the guy about 8:20 saying he would be about 15 minutes late.

And he showed up about 8:45 and got right to work on changing out my fuel filters, starting with the easy one at the rear of the coach. I went inside for a few minutes to make a phone call, planning on coming back out with my phone to get some photos of how he got under there for the hard one.

But when I came back out about 20 minutes later, he was already done with both filters and ready for me to start the engine and let it run for a few minutes to check for leaks. And with none found, and everything looking good, he was on his way by 9:20, about 35 minutes after he arrived. Great service from a great company.

And in another example of great service, the cartridge in our shower faucet has started leaking from behind the knob. But a quick call to Moen and a new cartridge was on its way, free, courtesy of their Lifetime Warranty. More great service.

And that’s the Good.

And now for the Bad.

Two years ago I set up an iDrive online backup account for a then-client. I put the charge on my debit card and just billed the client. When my work for that client ended in October 2015, I asked what they wanted to do about the account, and was told to just cancel it and they would set up their own system. So I emailed iDrive using their online form for that purpose and cancelled the service.

And since I used their online form, I have no record that I sent them an email. I did however receive an automated reply, stating that they had received my ‘inquiry’ and would get back to me. But I never received anything else, but still thought I had cancelled the service

Then a couple of days ago I noticed a $69.50 charge from iDrive. And going back through my 2016 bank statements, I found that I had a $59.50 last March also that I missed when it came through.

So last night I fired off an email to iDrive to find out what was going on. I was told the account was still active and that they would cancel it now as soon as I prove ownership of the account. And I had to do this by either giving them the password to the account, or the last four digits of the credit card used, as well as the expiration date.

Well, I don’t have the password, since I only logged into the account from the company’s computer. And when I gave them the credit card I have now, they said that wasn’t the correct card. And that’s because I got this new ‘CHIP’ card in June of 2015, and the iDrive account was set up in March 2015. And I have no idea what my old card number was.

So at this point I have no way to cancel this IDrive account.

So next I called Chase Bank to find out what card was used to make the charge, and was told it was my present card. But they weren’t able to explain how I was able to set up an account in March of 2015 using a card that they acknowledge wasn’t issued to me until June 2015.

I sent an email back to iDrive, asking if the fact that the account was still ‘active’ means that backups are being done every day, or has it just been sitting there, waiting patiently for the last 18 months. I haven’t heard back from them yet.

As a last ditch effort, I may just have to cancel the card and get a new one with a new number.

We were meeting Ed and Deb Hurlburt at a great local Chinese place, China Delight, at 4:30, but we headed out a little early to drop off some prescriptions at Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart before we met up.

Jan had the Beef with Orange Peel, while I, looking for something really spicy hot, went for the Chicken Volcano, Extra Spicy. But somewhere between the kitchen and our table, the Extra Spicy disappeared

And actually, the regular spicy went away also.

In fact, even the normally hot Chinese red peppers,

were mild enough to just munch on, without any noticeable heat. Our Hot & Sour Soup was actually hotter than my Chicken ‘Volcano’.

But regular blog readers will know I’m always packing heat.

No, not that kind.

This kind.

and with a few sprinkles of this, things warmed right up, ‘runny nose and top of my head sweating’ warm. Just perfect.

Dinner was great, as was the company.

And as is usual with RVer’s who haven’t seen each for awhile, after all it had been two whole weeks since we last had a meal together, this dinner took the usual three hours, before we all headed back to the park.

Tomorrow we’ll head back down to Clear Lake for Jan’s yearly former hospital coworker’s get-together at 6pm.

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Today was my first day to sleep in a bit, but I still was up at 10 because I had a lot of chores to work through on my list. After coffee,  I took care of some inside stuff before heading outside to see if I was going to able to change out the fuel filters myself.

As I mentioned yesterday, I changed this filter myself back in 2009 when we were up in Vermont. You can read about it here.

https://ourrvadventures.com/2009/08/14/

https://ourrvadventures.com/2009/08/15/

https://ourrvadventures.com/2009/08/16/

https://ourrvadventures.com/2009/08/17/

https://ourrvadventures.com/2009/08/18/

But as I also mentioned yesterday, I did that on 2009 knees.

The coarse filter is easy to get to at the rear of the coach.

However the one I really need to change out is an entirely different story.

It’s just inside the frame rail and blocked by the exhaust pipe.

It wouldn’t be a problem if it were not for the pipe, but as it is I have to crawl underneath and then try to come up between the frame rail and the pipe. Well, after crawling under there I quickly discovered that my 2017 knees won’t do this anymore. I almost made it, but not quite.

In a emergency I could probably do it if I put the rig all the way up on the rear levelers, but then I’d have to waif for the exhaust pipe to cool down. But it’s not worth doing this with the RV Mobile Lube guy coming tomorrow morning.

Here’s the blog of my last RV Mobile Lube service in 2015.

https://ourrvadventures.com/2015/02/12/

While I was out and about this afternoon taking care of some prescriptions, I got a call from Maria at Guard 1 wanting to know if we were available for gate guarding. When I told her we had just come off a gate and wouldn’t be available again until the end of August, she quickly asked me if I knew anyone who wanted to gate guard.

So if you’re looking for a gate, call Maria at (713) 337-4300. I guess this is reflected in the US rig count we saw this past week, which was up 25 rigs just in the last two weeks.

Thought for the Day:

“If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.” ― Steven Wright

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