Everything broke this weekend.
1) Friday night. Lost my internet. Called internet provider. 15 minute wait for customer service rep. Went through the usual process...unplug your router and modem, then plug them back in, etc. etc. That didn't work. Rep says I need a service call and says he can have someone here on Tuesday. My response: Um, no. I do work from home, and I wear a medical device that depends on the internet.
Rep says he will have local dispatch call me within 30 minutes. I said "No you won't, you guys NEVER call back". Rep says they HAVE to call me back within 30 minutes if a medical issue is involved. I said OK.
No one called. Called another rep. A real enthusiastic guy. "I guarantee you that you will have a tech at your house "tomorrow morning at 930 AM (Saturday). Also, I will personally call you at 1000 AM to see how it is going". I said "promise"? He said yes.
945 on Saturday. No one shows up. Call customer service again. I read the rep my documentation of the phone calls. Someone will call you back within the hour he says. No they won't, I said. Well, someone finally called back and said they would be right over. Tech came and fixed everything. He worked in the upstairs office, I stayed downstairs. While I was sitting there, I was thinking "Jesus, my bong is right next to my modem, and I have a glass pipe and weed on my desk". He came downstairs when he was done and he had a big grin. I said "Ya didn't steal any of my weed, didja"? He laughed and said "No Sir".
2) Sunday, yesterday. mowed my lawn. I have a battery powered mower that I LOVE. It crapped out on me 3/4's of the way through. Did some trouble shooting. Oh shit, electrical problem. Go to youtube. You have to remove about 30 screws, find the bad switch, take it out, and jump some wires. I have no cable or wires in the house to make a jump. Not even any paperclips. Oh wait! This has a 5 year warranty! Oh shit! It will take a month to get repaired and I need a lawn mower. Fuck it, I'll buy a new one, get the old one repaired when I can, then sell it.
Home Depot is the only one who sells this mower. HD online shows that they are out of stock at every HD within 50 miles. So I call HD. On an automated line, I input the SKU number, and the recording tells me there are 4 left in the store. Press the number for a representative. Phone rings over 100 times. Some guy finally answers and I explain that online shows you are out of stock, but your automated phone line says that you have 4 on the shelves. I would like to purchase over the phone with my credit card number. He says he can't do that. I said yes you can. He says they have new machines that you have to physically run the card through. I said no you don't...put me through to a manager please. Phone rings about 200 times this time. Finally I get a manager. He says of course, no problem. He takes my credit card number. I said I'll pick it up curbside in 30 minutes.
I get to the curbside spot. You have to text a number when you arrive. You then get a text back that asks for your order number. I don't have an order number because the manager did not give me one. Had to call the Home depot main number. Another 200 ring job. A friend of mine who works at the customer service desk finally answers the phone. Oh hi Lucky! You here for your mower? Yes, I'm curbside. Please do me a favor and have a big guy bring it out so he can help me load it. Sure! Will do!
Sat in the car and waited 20 minutes. Watched people walk by. Everyone had their mask over their mouth only, not their nose.
Someone finally brings the mower out. A woman in her twenties that weighed about 85 pounds wheeled it out on a cart.
Oh shit, I'm going to have to load it myself. The thing weighs about...I don't know...10,000 pounds. Box is so huge I can't get my arms around it. Finally got it into the vehicle, but not before my spine flew out of my back, shot 100 yards across the parking lot, and smashed someone's headlight.
Went home with no spine and a very sore back. Got the thing out of my vehicle and finished the lawn. Neighbor asked why I was all hunched over. Told him I was Gumby.
The end.
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half of it is good luck and the other half is bad luck..
It'll even out next year.
You should do as much as you can after surgery until you reach the point where you have to go to the ER.
That's what I do.
(Seriously though...Good luck in your recovery)
got on the phone with tech support - guess those guys don't get a holiday today - and it looks like the fine folks at Samsung sent out a device-killing software update last week. just had to clear up the cache for one of the misbehaving apps, and it works. for now. immediately backed up my local data 
so the weekend became marginally less shitty now.
the "donor" is the FORMER owner & founder - no longer affiliated with HD. supposedly somewhere along the line the "new" executives made it known that they are not the "supporters/donors" that they are thought to be.
At least that was what I had been told.................
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Oh, you poor thing. You had a rough couple of days. I hope that your back is better.
I had a similar day on Friday. My car wouldn't start and I had to be at work. It finally started after much cajoling and prayers. I called the mechanic and was told to take it after work. It not only needed a new battery, but a starter too. The people they get their parts from didn't have the starter for my car. They would have to order it. That meant no car until at least Tuesday, if I was lucky. I told the mechanic that I would go to Auto Zone and see if they had it. I had better luck there. I bought the battery and the starter, took it back to the shop and two mechanics worked on fixing the car so that I would have it before they closed. Nice people, they only charged me $80 for labor, plus the $305 for the parts, after $385 I had a working car again.
As Shakespeare would have said, all's well that ends well.
It's never fun when items or connections break. I feel your frustration since something similar happened here.
Our power went out this morning at 11 something. Turns out that were several downed power lines and at least one transformer on fire. Eventually, everything got repaired just a few moments ago. I tried not to complain knowing DUers like Solly Mack aren't exactly having a field day with storm season.
Hang in there and try to rest when you get the chance.
Long story short - tell me more about the bong & stash! 