This morning I woke up semi gung-ho and did a bunch of articles for pay. After that I took a deep breath and started another round of insurance-company chasing. Our phone line was acting up yesterday with too much traffic on the connection, so I had a poor experience trying to get quotes. But when one came by email and was over $400 less than we’d been paying, I figured it was worth the trouble and tried again.

For the last two years we’d gone through GMAC, the insurer used by Good Sam Club. They are specialists, but I always had a problem with them because they took five if not six attempts to get the spelling of my name and our address right.

I called up Progressive and after some slight confusion regarding what constitutes “commercial use” (believe me, freelance writing and programming is not commercial use), I paid up. The new insurance was $460 less; less for a year, in fact, than GMAC was for half a year.

Since $460 for an hour’s work wasn’t bad going, I knocked off work early and went for a walk to get pictures of the pretty Fall colors, then we threw some hot dogs on the grill Kerry loaned us, and called it good.

Don has been putting protective boards beneath the wheels with a view to starting Transmission Redux, and has discovered that our fridge’s control board is poorly, hence the fridge’s recent random behavior. He can fix it. More money saved.

The hot dogs, by the way, are Hebrew National, and were also half-price. ;)

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