One Of Those Days

Have you ever had one of those days when everything just went bad? If you haven’t, then you have truly missed out on something.

A week or so ago, the freezer went out. I mean, graveyard dead. Luckily, I found out before all the food was spoiled. We’ve had the freezer just a little over a year. The warranty ran out at one year and one minute. I called a technician. To allow him room to work, I moved a laundry cart that is in the same room. The wheels fell off the cart. This is a big cart that holds a bunch of stuff.

When the technician showed up, I had just gotten the cart back together. After a few minutes, the tech informed me that the problem was either a control or a compressor. It did not matter, since they only come as a package. The estimate to make the repairs was approximately three times what the freezer cost. I told him that I would just buy a new one. Or wait until next winter and put the food outside.

Just as the tech was leaving, my ace number one daughter phoned and said my granddaughter’s computer was broken. I immediately went to their house. Since the solution was not going to be simple, I brought the machine home. After trying all the stuff that was supposed to fix it, I finally got it to work, but not fixed. Granddaughter is going to use it, until I come up with a better plan.

After taking the computer home, I came back to work on my income tax on my computer and noticed that it would not send email. At first I thought the problem was my email software. Nope.

We have one of those bundle deals - phone, internet, and TV. It crashed. I re-booted the router as one is supposed to do, but that did not fix the email. Then, I decided to call the phone company that provides the service. That’s when I discovered the phone didn’t work.

On the cell phone, I pressed one and one and one and one and one and one until finally I was informed the next available representative would not be available until November.

So I did what all grumpy old men know to do. I had lunch and took a nap.

The lunch was cold.

PMO
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