Claiming my Bonus

I had some big dealings with the bank. They had to send some people out to my house multiple times to get me to sign a document. Then I figured I was done with the whole transaction. Nope. My original sales guy had told me that I could get some free gift. I had forgotten about it. Now it was time to choose a gift.

There were a lot of options. Most of the stuff seemed to have an MSRP between $150 and $200. I was thinking about getting the Google Home, which is their version of Alexa. There were a lot of bad reviews for it though. Then I thought maybe I could get a Dyson hand vacuum. Again there were a ton of bad reviews.

I have wanted to get the ability to watch DVDs in my study. When I hook up my external DVD reader to my computer, it just does not play the DVDs correctly. I think it is a Microsoft Windows issue. My solution was to get a TV and a DVD player. Well one of the gift choices was a 32 inch TV with Roku built in.

Not exactly sure what Roku was. I thought it was a box that let's you run apps. Well the TV itself runs apps like Netflix or YouTube. I got my TV delivered last week. Now I just need to get that DVD player, and I am off to the races.

Bugs in the Fan

I started noticing some thin protrusions coming from the new exhaust fan in our bathroom ceiling. It is high up. Used a towel to swipe them away. But then they came back. I took a closer look. There were some bugs up in the fan. I thought maybe they were spiders based on the legs poking through the grate.

It was time to get rid of whatever was up there. I got some bug spray, a newspaper for swatting, and a step stool to reach the grate. I layered up with a hat, mask, long sleeve shirt, and rubber gloves. When I pulled down the grate, a hornet came flying out. Smashed it with the newspaper. Then another one came out. Smashed it too.

When I took off the grate, a bunch of dead hornets fell out. Not sure if they were just lost brothers or lunch. It was a messy job cleaning all this up. I hope I got all of them. Never had any such problem with the old fan. Maybe the lid covering the vent to the outside is defective?

Couch Pickup

Yesterday I got a message that our new couch had arrived at the store. I asked Little Kat today to help me pick it up. He said he was busy with multiple items for school. So I had to go pick the couch up myself. Luckily my brother had left his truck at home. I did some prep work like moving out all the furniture and vacuuming the living room.

I arrived at the store. The sales guy told me to pull the truck up to the front door. I backed the truck right up to the sliding doors in front of the store. Some guy came by and said I could not park on the curb. So I parked really close. The wheeled the couch out and put it in the back of the truck. It was a snug fit between the wheel wells. I still tied the couch down.

On the way home, I stopped by Taco Bell for lunch. Little Kat was not there when I got home. When he did come home, I asked if he had time to help move the couches. He did. We moved the old love seat outside onto the front lawn. I backed my brother's truck up to our front door. Little Kat could not get a grip on the back of the couch (it was wrapped with a lot of protective padding). So we dragged the thing into the house.

It was a big affair unwrapping the couch. There was a plastic outer covering over the whole thing. Then there was some other protective material underneath. The edges and bottom were covered with cardboard. And for some reason, there was some wood attached to the bottom of the couch with screws.

Let's see what the family thinks of the new couch. If it is good, then it is time to take the old love seat to the dump.

Couch Shopping

The love seat that Momoko sits on in our living room has seen better days. We talked with the family. Our plan is to replace the love seat and recliner chair with a couch. Momoko, Kit Kat, and I went shopping for the new couch this weekend.

Momoko had located a store in our city. We did a drive by on our breakfast run and confirmed it was there. Kit Kat joined us when we later returned to go inside. There was a family sitting on some of the furniture. It did not look like they were purchasing anything. Nobody talked to us. All the limited couches were bunched together so you could not sit on them. We left pronto.

I received a circular from another furniture store in our city. The prices seemed really good. It was in the South section of town, in a strip mall we hardly ever visit. I was disturbed that there were no cars parked in front of the store. But it was open. A sign said that the store was open to the public. LOL wut.

When we entered, I figured we were at the right place. There were tons of couches and loveseats in a warehouse sized showroom. They were all easy to get to and sit on. The biggest surprise was that the prices were really low.

Momoko and Kit Kat narrowed the selection down. They settled on a couch that was displayed in a red (Salsa) color. Luckily we could order it in one of nine colors. We decided on black. I placed the order. It will arrive at the store in 14 business days. Let's hope this place was not too good to be true.