the time that i had a lame friday evening

my original plans for this evening were to come home from work, take a short nap, wake up and work on a presentation for work a bit and then order pizza, open a bottle of wine and settle in on the couch with a movie or two.

instead, my evening turned out nothing to the sort and yet it wasn’t any more or less exciting.

upon arriving home i performed my daily ritual of putting on my lounging shorts and settling onto the couch to watch my evening news with brian williams and then an episode of arrested development (i literally do this every weekday and a day doesn’t seem right without this ritual). i opened up my computer and waited for the Internet connection to kick in. nothing loaded and immediately I started to panic. I turned on the tv only to be greeted by a blank screen. apparently my cable tv and Internet decided to stop working sometime between the hours of 1p and 530p. I called comcast and of course I seem to be the only one with a reported outage in the area and of course they can’t get anyone out here tomorrow. instead I have to take off sometime next week for them to come fix it. erg. this will mark the third time they have been out here this month and the second time I will have had to take time off from work. now the big problem is rearranging my work schedule to get the cable fixed. next week couldn’t be a worse week to have thus come up as it is already a four day week but I can’t wait until Friday to get this fixed.

so of course this happens the next day after I have received my fixed computer back from apple. while it has been great to have my computer back, especially since they fixed the DVD drive too which I hadn’t realized was even broken, I have quickly realized that the computer is useless without an Internet connection.

so back to my story … so I end up watching my arrested development episode instead that was recorded in the morning but without the Interwebs to simultaneously peruse, I decide I am better off napping. So I head to my bedroom to nap and then I hear my phone ping as someone was messaging me. Of course it was people I wanted to chat with so I delayed the nap. Eventually I ended up back in the living room watching TiVo.

All of a sudden at about 11p I hear a funny noise coming from the kitchen/bathroom area. I think nothing of it until it gets worse and i finally go check it out. Water is pouring down through the doorway. When the building manager gets here we go upstairs and into my neighbor’s apartment only to discover it is actually coming from above him. Turns out the guy on the third floor let his bathtub overflow. He must have fallen asleep or something in there because there was so much freaking water that made it’s way down to my floor. So at this point the evening has already been a bummer but to cap it all off the building manager felt it necessary to tell me he story of how he had experience with incidents like this because one time in another building he was the one to discover a dead body in an over flowing bathtub.

Seriously, what is up with all my bad karma over the last two weeks? If it isn’t one thing it is another it seems.

And that has been my thrilling evening. All night I have held out hope that the cable is going to magically start working so that I can have some entertainment. That would make me so happy at this point in time, but instead I suppose I shall settle for sleepiness. And that ladies and gentlemen is the story of my thrilling Friday evening.