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Aloha.

Never ever ever purchase anything from the Eagle Warranty Corporation (their diabolical site is here: [link]), or from their subsidiary Carhosting.com.

I don’t care what any dealer, car owner, or anyone says.

I bought my 1996 Volkswagen Passat about a year ago, and while I was at the dealership, they offered me the option to purchase an Eagle Warranty. They said Eagle Warranty helped pay for repairs. I said how much, they said 47$ a month, I said sure, and signed my name.

I’m now getting rid of the car (if anyone wants a car for FREE let me know), and of course, I decided to cancel the warranty.
Now, by my calculations, I’ve given them about $564 or so in payments.
I went to the garage a couple time, and they only gave me $230 in “repair help”. So I was already feeling pretty crummy about the whole deal.

It took me ages to get through to get it canceled. Their website is worthless, and they don’t answer their e-mails or their customer support.
Their telephone system is also terrible. Their system is annoying from the very start, if you get on, just press 0 for the operator.
When I finally got through to her, she was unable to put me through to a real person. Apparently, no one picks up their phones at Eagle Warranty, they make you talk to their answering machines and then call you back if you feel like it.
They also transfer you without telling you. You could be mid-sentence, and they’ll just switch you over.

So, I didn’t get to talk to anyone, and finally got into the voicemail (of course) of Ed at Eagle Warranty. I told him my VIN number for my car, told him I was getting rid of the car, and said I wished to discontinue the warranty.

Ed at Eagle Warranty waited 3 days to call me back. When he did, Ed at Eagle Warranty was very rude. He demanded to know why I wished to discontinue the service, and was very condescending about it. Finally, he grudgingly asked for my VIN number (again) and my first and last name (again).

I asked Ed at Eagle Warranty if there would be any other charges. He said no.

He lied.

Today, they withdrew $175 from my account, decimating my bank account and almost putting me under.

After an HOUR AND A HALF on their blasted phone system, I finally got to talk with a real person, who transferred me to another real person, who transferred me to another real person, who told me it was my fault because it was written in the fine print of the contract.
$175 termination fee. $#$%#$%!!!! 175$~! To do what??? Remove me from their list??? Ridiculous!

THEN, when I asked to file a complaint with someone, they sent me to some techie, who was exTREMEly rude and condescending, and basically told me to shove my complaint where the sun don’t shine.

So, yeah. Don’t buy anything from them. And if you already have it, I feel bad for you. Because there is no way out.

With that, I will end my post with the Meta data from their website in hopes that this post will come up before their website does on Google to prevent some other poor soul from being sucked in.

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If you seek the truth in the thoughts of
Benjamin Joseph Jancewicz,
these are where they reside.
Read no further if you wish not to know truth.Aloha…

I had a dream about Minnie Uniam last night; she was moved out her house on the reservation because she had been evicted. The Naskapi Band Counsel said she could no longer live in her house because her husband Johnny had died and because of the housing shortage they needed her house.

They moved her into a tiny but new house where John Shecanapish’s Tipi used to be.
I went to visit her.
Her eyes were bright, and she fussed over me, feeding me hot raisin bannock with butter and Labrador Tea (mixed with old Earl Grey & Orange Pekoe). She was taking care of her great grandson. I don’t know whose child he was, but he had smooth dark hair and matched his great grandmother’s dark eyes. He toddle around in a diaper and a primary coloured blue shirt with an airplane on it.
Minnie spoke about how her life was hard, but how she was happy the Lord was taking care of her. Her backyard was fenced in, which was rare, (to keep dogs out, she said) but it was still dirt. Toys littered the back yard; big plastic ones and action figures with the arms broken off.
She smiled at me and gave me a hug before I woke up.

I miss her.

Normally I usually post insightful and meaningful journals, but this was just too funny to pass up.

I’m sure some of you have noticed spam where they try to tell you a story so your e-mail program doesn’t label it as spam?
Well, I got such a message today… except they forgot to list the product name, or what they’re advertising!!!

It’s just a funny, little story. that doesn’t make any sense.

From: Tabitha Lester
Reply-To: Tabitha Lester
To: ben.java@gmail.com
Date: Jul 11, 2006 7:56 AM
Subject: XJC

to see that my advice wasn’t wasted on you. Why, that’s marvelous. You can
of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That’s what I mean by
“It’s not impossible.”
of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch

So, here’s the deal.

We settle on this house in Baltimore on Wednesday.
As in, this furious storm of papers involving credit reports, mortgage applications, homeowners insurances, utility bills, alarm system paper, letters of recommendation, job history, job salaries, past renting and any other legal document ever written about me and Tamika is culminating in this big stack on my realtor’s desk.
God has been working through this incredibly; pushing back settlement dates when we needed it to be, giving us breaks on insurance, even putting it on our seller’s hearts to give us an INTEREST FREE LOAN for the next 10 years for the difference in our mortgage.

We discovered last week that we were unable to include Tamika in the mortgage because (another blow against teachers) her job; Substitute Teaching Services, would NOT guarantee ANY salary for her next year. They wouldn’t do this because Tamika’s job is dependent on some other teacher being sick or calling off so Tamika can take her place. And her job wouldn’t even give her an average.

So that meant I had to bear the entire weight of the loan with my credit alone. Fortunately, I have pretty darn good credit (I pay my bills very promptly, or as promptly as I can), so we got through ok, but the mortgage didn’t quite meet the price of the house entirely.
And then the sellers offered to finance the difference (a substantial amount) without interest over the next 10 years. These people are really cool. This is pretty much unheard of.

So everything is coming together. We have another inspection tomorrow (Saturday) to make sure everything that the seller was doing gets finished up, and then Settlement (where we sit down and the money & contracts change hands) on Wednesday the 5th. We’ve been told that we need to bring something around $2000 to the settlement table, in case there are fees and stuff, and we still have no idea where that is going to come from, but God has being taking care of us so much so far that we have no more doubts. We just need to have faith and just do our best.

After that Tamika will be moving into the house. I’m going to stay in Gaithersburg until September when we get married. Hopefully this will give her a head start on getting a job and everything there. She’s a little nervous, but I know she’ll be ok. She’s a strong woman. I won’t be too far away either, and will get to see her much more than I do now.

The MAAFA production is now over, and the both of us can now breathe a little easier.
It was pretty crazy. Tamika was had the lead role, and was singing as well, and I had several minor roles, did the Graphic Design, sang, and played djembe. The production was a spectacular success; the best MAAFA production ever. Her parents got to come opening night, which was awesome. Despite all the stress before it, it was as smooth as syrup during the show; and everyone walked away feeling awesome about it. God really did work in this.

Marriage plans are going well; we just had our first counseling session last week with our Pastor. She’s been out of commission lately because she snapped her tendon in her heel practicing the African Dance for the MAAFA (how many can boast that of their pastor!!!). She was in good humour about the whole thing, though, and we had a nice session. I’m looking forward to meeting again with her to learn more about Tamika through the sessions.

Anyhow, that’s all for now.

Song currently playing: POD – Boom

Holy mother of Mohammad! (you use my diety’s name in vain, I use yours)

Man, I have to keep this list crackin’! Lotsa you people are adding me to your Deviant Watch list! Thank you ever so much, I never dreamed I would get this much of a positive reaction. I make art for myself; I see something beautiful and try to capture it to help my notoriously bad memory. But it makes me soo happy when I see other people enjoying this work as much as I do. Thanks so much!

I gotta make sure everyone’s on this list, now!

Got my car back from inspection, got to do all kinds of work on it. *sigh* I love the little bug anyhow, though.

My moped is running funny, I need to take a look at it and figure out why it doesn’t like full throttle.

Saw the HULK tonight, one cool movie. Very trippy at times, though, but the effects were awesome. The scene changes were truly ingenious, true to comic book form. The most artistic movie I’ve seen since Gattaca.

Blue skies, smiling at me, nothing but blue skies, do I see…

We got the house.
As in, we got the house.
As in, there is a building. A real building. Four walls, a roof, a door… a real house.
And not just any house.
A spectacular house.

Here’s a letter I wrote to a couple we may be buying a house from in Baltimore.

Hello Mr. & Mrs. _________

My name is Benjamin, and my realtor, Steve Hane, invited me to tell you a bit of our story.

My fiance� Tamika and I have been looking for a place for quite some time now. I’m a graphic designer and work for a large non-profit organization called “National Fatherhood Initiative” (a program that helps dads to be better dads) and Tamika works as a high school coach and full-time substitute teacher. She’s working on getting her teacher certification so she can teach in the Baltimore school district.

We met in college, and became best friends, but didn’t start dating until after college. We both lived and worked in the Harrisburg area, and got to spend a lot of time with one another as the summer went on. We knew we wanted to get married since we started expressing feelings for one another; and last Thanksgiving I asked permission from her father (we’re fortunate to have very supportive parents) and officially proposed to her. I didn’t have a ring at that time, but we both knew the timing was right to start preparing for the wedding.

I knew I still wanted to get her an engagement ring, though, so I began designing one for her that was my own creation and had it made. The jeweler finished it and it arrived last week.
This past Monday on Memorial Day, I knew that I was going to give her the ring, but she wanted to look at some houses in the Baltimore area.

So, I arranged for us to meet Steve in the morning, and planned to surprise her by having both our parents show up at Patterson Park after we were done house-looking.
The three of us drove around for a while looking at different houses, but didn’t find anything. Finally we gave up and went to the real estate office to cool off and get some lunch.

I had told Steve ahead of time that we needed to go early so I could meet our parents and to play along, but just before we were about to leave Steve found your property online. We looked through the listing and as Steve read us the details Tamika and I both knew it was right. But we had so little time!

We rushed over to the house, and we’re absolutely stunned. If Tamika and I had designed a house for us to live in ourselves, this is what it would look like. We are both so excited that a house like this might could be ours!
I had to pull Tamika away (we must have gone through the house 5 times!) and we drove over to the Pagoda in Patterson Park, and our parents were waiting for us there.
She was so surprised. She never expected anything like that, or for both of our parents to be there! Our parents had never officially met before, because mine live in Connecticut and work as Bible Translators for a Native American tribe in Quebec. So, amid everyone, I got down on my knee and gave her the ring.

That’s our story! (at least a small part of it)
I’m looking foreword to going through this process with you, and can’t wait to talk to you both.
Thanks so much,
~Benjamin

Aloha!

Talk about getting back some sleep…
I went to take a nap around 6:30 yesterday afternoon… and slept until 7:30 this morning. Tamika was supposed to call and wake me up after half an hour, and she says she did, but that I was so tired that she just let me sleep. She’s always looking out for me. I ended up waking up spontaneously at 1:00 AM, but I watched the making of Matrix Revolutions until I was able to sleep again. I like that movie! I’m glad I finally got to see it. It’s amazing! I really want to see V for Vendetta now to see what the Wachowski brothers do in that film. I now own all 3 Matrix films as well as the Animatrix, which I paid a total of about 15$ for. Hurray for pawn shops and EBay.

I didn’t realize that I was that tired! I really have been worn out lately… I’ve been trying to do a million things… get the ring for Tamika, get my EIN for Zerflin to become a bonafide business, wedding stuff like invitations, photographer… going through the process trying to figure out how to buy a house and get a mortgage… and on top of that about a dozen graphics projects that are currently up in the air.
I usually end up shutting down and zoning out, and battling temptation; but I’ve been doing lots better.

Remember when I wrote about that horrible Chinese food I ate? Well, I added Dave Broussard on the e-mail group I have that I send out links to this journal (for those who don’t have DeviantArt). He’s the guy I’m designing this for:

His site is sort of up now, it’s here: [link]
Anyhow, he was intrigued by my journal that he read ALL of them. I was pretty surprised, frankly, there is a LOT of text on here!
He lives around here, and so the next day he took me out to Jen’s Chinese Restaurant for lunch and it was AWESOME! It is some of the best Chinese foor I’ve ever had. I had Seafood & Meat combo on pan fried noodles, and it was heavenly…
He and I have become pretty good friends since then, and he’s invited me to a men’s group that’s been meeting every Thursday evening that has done wonders for me. It’s been really good to connect with other men and to talk about issues that they’re struggling with.

In other news, both the Starlight forums and the Ethnic website are back up.
Starlight was my very first website I ever designed, and had a forum on there that was once pretty popular. I had people from all over the world coming on there and just hanging out. It fell into disrepair when the domain hosting for Zerflin went down, but recently I’ve been learning more about forum building, and I was able to revive it. It’s a pretty fun place, if you want to check it out. It’s here: [link]

Ethnic is also an online community, but it’s a lot more comprehensive. It’s a community for those interested in social change and finding solutions to the problems that harm our communities. It comes from the perspective that EVERYONE comes from an ethnic culture, and by viewing the issues though these lenses of equality and appreciation we might be able to come up with dialogue that will help us make steps to helping people.
It’s also got a library, a gallery and a regularly updated news forum that brings news from around the world about people of different ethnicities that you won’t hear in the common news.
If you’d like to check it out, visit it here: http://www.zerflin.us/ethnic/

Let me know what you think about these sites, and if I can improve them in any way! I’m planning on putting them up as deviations.

Peace!