Thought I’d be able to post a bit more this weekend, but as it sits, even the “I GOTTA DO” list got kicked by the wayside. I wanted to get the Christmas lights up. The missus protested, saying it was too soon. She’s the one that wants them up the weekend after Thanksgiving, and I’m sorry, but it’s supposed to rain that weekend and I had a sunny forecast for this one.
Wives have a funny way of getting their way. First, she picked up the new Select Comfort bed for my daughter. (Hell, WE don’t even have one of these.) This meant taking apart her futon bottom bunk bed apart, moving it to the spare room, reassembling it, then assembling her bed.
I was prepared for this. It was going to be quick. I had the cordless drill all powered up, and I was ready to get this done in record time. Then the other shoe dropped. Allen screws.
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Well let me tell you that none of these were in a place where I could just spin the Allen wrenches. I had to insert, twist, remove, repeat. Dammitall. By the way, I had no clue that the ‘box spring’ was just a stupid flimsy frame with bolt-and-wing nut plastic beams and frame. How much did this thing cost again? Needless to say, with this and my honey-do list on Sunday, the lights are still waiting, and they will be for the next two weeks.
Well, to make matters worse, My mother called on Saturday morning and hung up on me when I answered. All I heard was “That’s just some really f***ing wierd Sh*t.” *click*
She called back and we heard the wierdest noises on the phone. She thought it was on her end. It wasn’t. For the next two days, our phone reception was screwed. It was like someone planted a virus on our phone.
Imagine this…You know that noise that the phone makes when you leave it off the hook? Remember that. Now add a dial tone, a busy signal, a recording about the number you were trying to reach being disconected, a recording about how the call you were making not able to be completed as dialed. Now play all that at once, then try to talk through that. Then get pissed, hang up your phone, come back five minutes later and pick it up, only to realize that it didn’t hang up.
…WTF…
So this we had to try to deal with til this morning. I couldn’t track it down, and a new phone didn’t help. I had to go make the call to the phone company from my work and get the sitch handled. And of course, after putting in the help ticket with ATT, I talked to one of their service guys who comes in every day. Well he went to check it out and kinda usurped the guy who was sent by the phone company. Bad timing. Turns out that the problem was in a junction box at the park about three blocks from here. But now I have a friggin’ phone.
I guess I will get to post all week, then next week, we have our Christmas In Bethlehem pageant starting with setup after church Sunday and after work Monday and Tuesday. We have a dress rehearsal on Tuesday night. Then we have the show for two hours plus on Wed.-Fri. night, plus Saturday morning, then teardown Saturday nigh in time for church Sunday morning. I hear this is quite an impressive feat, taking down and storing sets in four hours that took two to three days to put up. Next week, I will be lucky to eat dinner.But the point is to try to bring outsiders in faith into faith. It will all be worth it if it changes the perspective of one person. (I’m thinking my parents since they’re coming.)
For now, I need to go to bed. Three in the morning seems to come about midnight.
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