The Forces of Nature are Against Me.

So where have I been for the last 4 days, no I did not meet my demise after leaving the parking garage after the Milblog Conference, nor Greta, did I cause further damage to my vehicle, oh to have a gorgeous woman witness your stupid mistakes. *Sigh*

Upon returning home on Saturday evening I spent the time with the family and medicated after sitting all day in those hard chairs, I should have just gone on the pub crawl, but if I had then I certainly would have met my demise…alcohol and my medications do not mix, and you can not…let me repeat that…can not go on a pub crawl and not drink. Sunday I went to church and afterwards spent the afternoon at my parents, doing a day early celebration of my wife’s birthday. It wasn’t until Sunday evening that I realized the forces of nature were working against me….I logged onto my PC at home to begin posting my updates and my thoughts about the conference when to my dismay; my cable modem would not connect. A toll free call to the tech support center confirmed that I was no longer on the net…and since I had TV it would result in a service call. The earliest time they could get there….Yep Tuesday afternoon.

Okay I thought no problem, I’m off Monday so I’ll make a true vacation of it with my wife, no phone, no papers, no interent news and celebrate her birthday by going out just her and I, and on Tuesday I’d just stay home after my treatment and wait for the cable guy to show up. As for my treatments, yesterday was the third of three, so now its three weeks of seeing how I progress. If I continue to get better and heal then good deal, if I do not progress or go backwards, then I need to go back sooner and we can discuss other options. The news I heard yesterday was not good it appears that I may never be rid of the pain. Something I'm not going to accept, there has to be a way to get over it, I beat it once, I know I can do it again.

After my treatment I went home to wait…and wait…and wait…and wait, and then about 1400 the cable guy, “Get R Done!” shows up. He hooks his handy dandy meter up to my cable…goes to another connection, goes outside...and finally goes to the box where their cable comes out of the ground. He pronounces much to my relief that it’s their fault, there is a problem in the line between their box and my house, most likely a mole that ran into the line and nibbled on the sheath and let the water in. Then the bad news…he doesn’t fix that. He is going to have to put in a work order for an L&F (Locate and Fix). “When will that be done?” I ask. Looking at his wrist, upon which no watch resides, he pronounces that "they should be here in a couple of days."

Yep you heard that right…a couple of days! And here is the really bad news…if they can’t fix the problem by splicing in a replacement piece, they are going to have to put a new drop in…and you guessed it again…that could take weeks to fix! *Sigh* So no internet at home for the foreseeable future.

Of course it’s not all bad, the sun is shining and I have a whole hour before I need to get the kids off the bus. That’s when I find out that being away from the news and paper for even one day can have consequences. My best friend’s mother has died and I missed the obituary in the paper the day before. He is coming in for the viewing which is Tuesday and Wednesday night then the funeral is Thursday. No time to nap, I need to get my clothes together and go to a viewing after dinner.

So anyway, I'm not dead, nor did I fall off the face of the earth, it’s just that the forces of nature are conspiring against me all of the sudden, and with the funeral Thursday during the day it shall be another day that I am gone from here. Of course I know that it will all work out in the end, I just don’t know when the end is going to happen.

Take care everyone, and I’ll be back on Friday.