Back to working on the insurance claim this morning. We're so close to having the schedule of loss done and ready to submit!

We are required to use their form, so Miriam figured out a way to overlay our tracking spreadsheet onto a scanned copy of their form to print and it saved *so* much hand-writing. We have over 50 pages of this list, at 8 items ( Read more... )

Shit's been rough, lately.

I had to be away from social media for most of a week. Back then, I had spent a couple of days reading about the current research on Covid, trying to understand how dangerous it is in general, and how dangerous it is specifically for Miriam. I concluded that the answer is potentially very dangerous, if what Miriam has is ( Read more... )

I finally bought a decent hanging file box. After the fire, I bought the cheapest accordion-fold paper organizer I could find and have kind of regretted it since.

I needed a folder to put all the shit related to the fucking fire in before it gets potentially further sorted, so I created an appropriate label yesterday.

Yeah, it's kind of dumb, but ( Read more... )

I found a Livejournal post with the model of the slide rule I lost in the fire, and a picture too! It was a bamboo Post Versatrig 1450, manufactured in Japan by Hemmi in August of 1967 by the serial number. Now I can try to price a replacement for the insurance claim. This is why I can never get rid of my Livejournal. *laughs*

It feels like we're ( Read more... )

I had possibly the most severe panic attack since the fire yesterday.

I was already stressed because I went with Miriam to a doctor appointment and then drove with her to the condo to get my bike. Driving to the condo is still hard. The car was also handling weirdly that day in a way that makes checking the tires over a priority.

But when we got home ( Read more... )

Miriam had a monitor as a loan from work that we need to replace. It costs $879.95. Admittedly, I'm using to buying $20-$40 dollar monitors at thrift stores, but I can't imagine ever spending that much money on a monitor. Nothing could look *that* good!

I had another "Have you actually done this before?" moment with our insurance adjuster.

I forwarded him the letter from SMI saying we are liable for smoke and soot damage to another unit. He wrote:

"I will deal with this. Both insurers are smi on this so should be interesting to see how its handled"

Should be interesting to see how it's handled? ( Read more... )

Miriam and I are trying our best to finish the schedule of loss for the insurance claim this weekend.

The insurance form wants a place of purchase for each item. Is "next to the dumpster outside our apartment" a valid response? Because that's actually where I got at least three pieces of furniture we were using. 🙂

I'll just leave those blank.

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I'm ( Read more... )

I just got an email asking to confirm that Seregil's information for his microchip is up to date. I managed to enter a sort of emotionally numb state while I figured out how to log in and update his information to indicate that he is dead, so I hopefully won't get further reminders. After he died, we got several text message saying that he had been ( Read more... )

Our insurance adjuster knows we aren't living at the condo. He was physically there with us after the fire! He is, I assume, involved in the billing for repair work. His company is *paying* for our current apartment.

But his company sent a check I was expecting to arrive, but hadn't, to the condo address. At least I have it now so I can pay the ( Read more... )