Unobtanium Monitor, Replacement CD Changer

I'm trying to find a suitable replacement to give insurance for a unreasonably nice monitor Miriam was borrowing from work and the thing is made of pure unobtanium and there isn't anything much like it either. It was still listed on the Apple store for something like $800 CAD when we first filled out the list, but it's gone now. From there and everywhere else too.

It was an LG Ultrafine HKMY2VC/A, and we're now waiting to hear from her supervisor about the most important specs to him to match.

https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-22MD4KA-B-4k-uhd-led-monitor

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Long-time readers may recall that I found my late 300-disc CD player on a thrift store shelf marked at, I think, $20. The carousel wasn't rotating, so I looked inside and saw a bunch of random CDs scattered inside. After removing some it was rotating but making clunky noises. Turning the flashlight on my phone on, placing it on the carousel, and rotating it revealed yet more random CD's scattered around inside. I got those out and tried playing a disc and it worked just fine. This is why you unload these before moving them!

I bought my first piece of replacement gear on Ebay yesterday. The listing says the 300 disc changer is "Partially tested. Selling as is for parts only." The seller posted a video that shows it loading and playing a disc, but making some odd noises. They also included a bunch of pictures; in one of them, there's quite clearly a random CD sitting way in the back, off the carousel. It did take longer than expected to start playing a track, but that's probably because it was set to shuffle mode and had to seek to track 8 before starting.

The seller has lots of good feedback and I feel reasonably sure they are presenting it honestly. They also sell tons of *really* random crap. Miriam thinks they might be buying storage locker contents or something. A picture of the back shows some old dusty cables plugged in and attached to nothing. Because they are basically extraneous to the unit and add no value or information, and because of the nature of the stuff they sell, I extrapolate that the seller basically doesn't know enough about the device and its operation to find the problem or confirm that its working. I'm betting, literally since I just spent some insurance money on it, that it will get here and work just fine.

I guess I'll let you know sometime between the 15th of this month and the 8th of June, when it arrives from California.

Miriam has a Chronic Pain Clinic Appointment

After, what? Six months? Seven? Miriam has an appointment at the chronic pain clinic. It's hard to express the amount of relief and happiness that that's finally happened. I'm still frustrated and angry that the system takes this long sometimes, but Covid and other things have fueled a serious health care shortage.

Response to insurance

Okay, I sent our response to insurance! Now we wait again. Thanks to those who offered their input! Now it's time for the metaphorical 3-dimensional chess portion of the waiting process.

We weren't sure if we should send our response to the person at the third-party organization that did the assessment of our list of items. The adjuster said that to dispute an item, we should send the relevant information to him. So we sent it to the adjuster with our insurance company, and separately to the third party assessor. We sent it separately because we didn't know if she needed it, or if, given the adjuster didn't tell us to send it to her, he'd get pissy about us going over his head or something.

We haven't heard from our adjuster, but the third party employee responded at about 5:30, saying "I will reach out to your adjuster for approval to make these changes."

That *sounds* like she gets to make that decision on her own! Maybe all our appeals will be fine? Frankly, our adjuster's communication skills kind of suck, so it's hard to draw solid conclusions from things he says to us. I'm scared to get my hopes up too high though.