Gotta get on here before I take my nap. I had a good week and pretty much problem free. I am being required to go out driving again for my job and see some clients that are not apart of my caseload. I have a lot of people I need to see and I am thankful I was able to get out and see some more people and return home safely. But I will say the travel was a very harrowing experience. I am almost certain a car that was within inches of crashing into me was a stolen car. They missed me and sped through the red light and there were other reckless drivers out and about causing my heart to skip a couple beats and give a moment of silence. Summer like weather really brings out the worst in people, but I enjoy this season and hope that I can continue to enjoy it and still keep my life.
Something unusual happened this week and I don't know who I can attribute it to. I have a client and I'll give the fake name Randall to replace his due to Hippa and how things find a way to come back and mess you up. I was doing some work for Randall and then I thought about church business and decided to check the status of an application I completed on behalf of the church. I looked and saw that a notice was posted saying that they regretted to inform us but our application was denied. I was confused and told another church member that it was denied. I would have stopped there and left things alone. I need a stronger heart for evangelism and that is one thing I'll admit I am lacking. I won't say the event we are trying to do, but I am trying to follow God's will and support with it because it is the right thing to do. I left another message for a representative at the township and his name also happened to be Randall. I later received a call back from Randall from the township and he told me that he never declined us and there is no way anyone else could deny our request. All requests have to go through him. I looked at the screen shot of the denial but he assured me he could proceed and said he saw our request still active in the system. Instead of charging us the larger organizational price, he gave us the best pricing that could be offered. I was appreciative and thanked him for making an exception in our case since he could have charged us due to us advertising but he chose not to. I informed my church sisters of the approval and still showed the denial screen shot that no longer had standing.
Then I decided to try to sort out an issue for my computer. I had paid for a McAfee antivirus service when I first purchased my laptop in 2020. I was fine to pay what they would charge me but when I saw a notice of how high the cost would go in 2022, I decided months ago I would get ready to cancel auto renew so I could look for other coverage. The date came for me to try to cancel and no matter how I went about on the site, despite following their directions, it would not allow me to cancel auto renew. I then figured that since my bank card which I used to purchase the coverage was expired, there would be no way they could charge me so I left it alone thinking things were ok.
They charged me. I had called the bank back in May and they said I would have to wait for the charge to clear before I could contest it. It cleared and even though my laptop was having issues and I didn't want the coverage, I decided not to contest it and count it a loss to me. Then a week or so later and every day I got on the computer afterward, I would get notices of my coverage being expired but it was confusing because they charged me nearly $140 and why was it saying this? I was busy with work and couldn't make enough time for a call until Monday this week where the person had me on hold and eventually I had to hang up so he gave me a tech support number I could call to continue the call with McAfee. During that call, I wanted them to help me stop the pop ups that were saying I didn't have coverage. On Wednesday, I called McAfee again but this time, the number they gave me didn't go to tech support but instead to some place else not related. I called around and kept getting the run around and after giving up on the phone lines, I tried to get support on the website but to no avail. Links would take me to inactive pages with no help. I even tried to see if I could reactivate coverage in the app on my computer but it wouldn't allow for me to do so and kept taking me to a page to make a new purchase instead with no other options. I was frustrated so I called my bank to contest the charge and guess who answered the phone?
Randall. I had to ask him again to make sure I was not hearing incorrectly. This guy's name was Randall. The person who about an hour ago approved the request for my church, his name was Randall and my client who I did work for that same morning? His name was Randall too. After a long time with bank Randall, he authorized a provisional credit to my account and I was able to make it to the bank in time to get a new bank card printed up to replace what I had been using.
I don't know if what I've been using was a scam. Bank Randall seemed to think so. I'm not sure about the last Randall, but what I know is the name that was popping up throughout the day with three different people is not a very common name. Again, the name was not Randall, it was something else very rare. I don't know, but I thank the Lord that I was able to send out the referral for the first Randall and get the approval for the second Randall. The third Randall gave that provisional credit but I am going to wait at least a month and possibly 1.5 months before moving that money because they may use recordings saying I wanted the service. I had explaned to McAfee that I didn't want the service at first but since I was not able to cancel auto renew, I was willing to keep it. I just needed to stop the pop ups and be assured the service was working on my computer behind the scenes and even though they sent an email saying they resolved my request, I was and am still having the same issue. I will uninstall McAfee once I am certain the direction this case will go.
I have to take my nap but that is what I wanted to share.
May you have a great afternoon/evening and may the Lord be with you and your computers/devices as you use them.
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