The best intentions

So something always seems to come up. Always.

Have you ever felt like the universe has something against you? Like there is some Karma that you have to repay, but that you have never been told about?

I get a call yesterday as I'm getting dressed after working out - did this after work because Diane phones, and it was $0.25 wing night at Frickers, so we were heading there after Matt got back from open gym at 7:30 - i.e. I had plenty of time after work instead of doing it at lunch. But I digress. She calls about 6:30.

It is cold. The high outside yesterday was about 27F. Inside the house it is 57F. The fricking furnace has quit again. Again! In the four years I've had this house (my first), this is the third time it has gone out - always when it is bitterly cold. Not a couple of weeks ago when it was 60 during the day, and it just came on a little. Not at Thanksgiving when it dropped down then warmed up again. No, on the coldest night so far. At least, for once, it didn't happen on Friday night (which it has the other two times) and we would have to wait until Monday to get the parts.

Ah, but not everything goes wrong for once. Because in the seminars and our local parent support group, we actually know some people in that business - the owners of Kettering Heating and Air. So they had someone out pretty quickly, and he got it working. I wish we knew them last year at this time when it went out - because then maybe they would have seen the repairs that the other guy MISSED and prevented this whole thing! That is the most frustrating part - this was caused by something simple that needs to be replaced (we need to call for a normal service call to get the hose replaced and everything else checked out), which was obvious to the technician. And it wasn't something that broke suddenly - the hose probably should have been replaced a couple of year ago, before it started leaking and doing the damage it did.

Live and learn I guess. Get the thing checked once a year - kind of like getting your car oil changed. But at least we have heat again - it was warming up when we went to bed, and back to normal this morning.

Oh, and I got my replacement printer cartridge (for the defective one that I ordered) yesterday. So at least Dell was quick to get that out - for taking what seemed like forever on the chat session (over an hour - very very slow responses).

So maybe try to get some writing done tonight after Weight Watchers - where I figure I'll probably lose a point again as a reward for doing well. (You've been working real hard, and sticking to your diet - so now you get to eat less! Oh - and your exercise is also less effective, so you have to do more of that as well. And that stuff about you being less hungry - yeah that was bull$#it!). :-)