Planching the night away, going on a month

Last night after work I decided to play around more with an elbow planche.  It is a balancing move that isn’t too hard but I have had limited success with in the past.  The main requirement to do the move is a strong lower back that allows you to suspend more than half of your body in a near horizontal position.

After a few practice runs I found a good balance point.

Part of my original cost cutting measures was an intent on reducing my costs for both auto and home owners insurance.  I contacted my local agents office back in early April.  I talked to somebody named Dan that went over my policies with me, indicating a few things that could be done to save money.  He said he had to check on a few things and he would get back to me the next day.  Well this started an incredibly frustrating pattern of poor follow up.

No less than 4 times over the past few weeks I have had to call into the office asking for this agent to call me back both via messages on his voice mail and frustrated messages left in person with other office staff.  He kept ignoring me.  I was pissed.

So late last week I call in and talk to some woman.  I told her that I have been trying to get Dan to follow up on these policy changes for three weeks and he keeps refusing to call me back.  I told her I was done with him and wanted to talk to somebody else.  She said she would have another agent contact me.

So I am contacted by another agent.  I recap the lack of communication by Dan.  The new guy said he apologized for the miscommunication, he said Dan supposedly was leaving me messages.  I asked what number he was calling.  Josh said it was my work number.  I told Josh I have no voice mail on that line so somebody is not telling the truth.

So anyway I review the situation with Josh and tell him what we were working on.  Supposedly he was going to be able to save me roughly $125 on my homeowners and about $200 on my car insurance.  I told Josh about a statement I had received in the middle of this miscommunication mess that listed policy changes on my home owners insurance.  One of those changes indicated an additional $381 for “rate change”.

Well of course this got my blood pressure instantly elevated.  I originally thought that my interaction with Dan somehow resulted in a nearly $400 INCREASE in my rate.

Well when I started looking at old bills I realized this 30% rate increase has been in place for the entire policy period.  Evidently they slid this rate increase in last year and Ali just paid the higher rate.  Well I am not the type to let a place suck additional dollars out of my wallet without a fight.

I told Josh that I want the replacement value on my house adjusted down.  It looks to be almost $100k high.  He said he is going to see what he can do.  He better do.

My life right now feels pretty simple.  I do my thing, when and how I want to do it, rinse and repeat.