Delays, Delays!

I feel you Marvin!

I’ve been trying to arrange a trip to go see my parents on the other side of the country.

After a solid year of things breaking, the house, and me. Followed by hitches in seemingly straight forward home improvement tasks. Some of which are still to be resolved…

I thought I was going to have some free and clear time to head out. The plan was to take time, travel with a new computer that had 5x the battery life of my current one, see some sights, and generally relax. Gas prices be damned!

The computer was defective, then went missing after I handed it off to FedEx to be returned to the manufacturer. They take no responsibility, their agent takes no responsibility, the police can’t do anything because it’s not a clear case of theft, so I’m stuck paying the bill for a machine that I don’t have. Yea!

The FedEx agent, said they couldn’t print me a receipt after they scanned it into the system. Now unsurprisingly, there is no record of the package being scanned. (Even though, I watched them scan it.) I was told that the receipt would be texted to me… uh huh.

Why do I believe that people are inherently honest, or that they’ll do their freaking job?

The home improvement project was to install solar on the house. The panels are up on the roof, the controller is installed, but the connection hasn’t been made to the house wiring because there was some kind of glitch.

When the solar provider was contacted, they seemed to think that everything was installed and working. Uhhh NO! This it particularly interesting because they have remote monitoring of the system and one would think that they’d be able to call up the controller and see that it wasn’t passing power to the house.

Yet another situation where people failed to do their damn job!

So now I’m drawn back into waiting around for someone to figure out what needs to be done and get it done.

In the mean time, the other half has finally gone to the doctor. This is leading to a bunch of tests and hopefully some answers about why their health seems to have been getting markedly worse over the past 2 months.

All of this is concurrent with a time element closing. Because when the school year starts up again, I will be tied to the house looking after the pup. What was supposed to be a 3 week trip of exploration and relaxation has effectively been reduced to less than a week and may simply not be worth the effort.

With the latest FED interest rate hike. I may not be able to make the trip because the credit card issuers are already raising their rates too.

Great!

I’m not even going to get into a discussion about inflation.

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Maybe Marvin was right…

He should have used that Illudeium P-38 space modulator to blow up the Earth … After all, it obstructed his view of Venus.

I can certainly relate to Marvin’s frustration!

Full disclosure, Marvin is one of my favorite Warner Brothers cartoon characters.