RW> I didn't want to be a clock mechanic anyway... 8^)   
      
   Not a real high demand for clock mechanics, either.. :)   
      
   RW> I'm familiar with that shocking bit. My dad always bought the same name   
   RW> brand TVs because they had a lid that allowed him to access those tubes.   
   RW>    
   RW> Dunno why as the TV worked perfectly, but he had the back off making some   
   RW> kind of adjustment and he got slammed up against the wall behind him...he   
   RW> had touched that big fat wire that feeds the CRT and it gave him quite   
   RW> the   
   RW> wallop.   
      
   I remember those large TVs with the huge tubes.  We still had one when I was   
   in my teens (in the 80s).  It worked great on the 5-8 channels that we could   
   pickup with the antenna.  :)     
      
   RW> I never wanted to be rich, just comfortable with nothing owed to anybody.   
   RW>    
   RW> We're free and clear except for a mortgage and the nice mortgage holder   
   RW> got bought up by Wells Fargo and I hate those people. If they harrass me   
   RW> one more time about my payment being late (it's due on the 15th and   
   RW> always mailed by the 10th), I'm going to pay off this place and get them   
   RW> out of my life.   
      
   I have never had any problems with Wells Fargo.  I was impressed that they   
   were one of the only banks that allows the mortgage acceleration program - and   
   doesn't charge you for it.     
      
   There are plenty of other banks that I despise (BoA).     
      
   A few years ago, things got ugly in my dealings with one of my old lenders   
   (Amtrust Bank).  They had been taken over by the FDIC and were holding up my   
   refi.  Once I talked to the right person there, the paperwork was done by the   
   next morning.   
      
   - Mark   
      
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