Rant #3,210: Bad Time

Well, here I am after Yom Kippur and all the problems I have related to the house, and I am still in one piece.

The Yom Kippur fast went pretty well.

For the first time though, I had a little bit of problems early in the fast rather than later on.

Early in the fast, I almost felt like I could not continue with it, but it was just a few hours into it, and I simply forced myself to get through those early stages.

I persevered, and the later portion of the fast was much better, so after about 24 hours of not eating, I got through it pretty well.

But this time, I have to say that I did not fell “cleansed” as I normally do … I guess that there are too many problems that I have to deal with that really do not allow me to feel that way this time around.

I would have hoped the Jewish New Year would have brought my family and I a new beginning, but at least early on, it really hasn’t, and let me tell you why.

And then we have the house …

The house was going to go officially on sale yesterday, but the broker decided to hold off on it due to the Yom Kippur holiday.

So today, the house goes on sale, and I guess maybe that is why the fast did not make me feel good afterwards this time around; I guess I feel a bit sad.

And let me tell you about the open house later this week …

It, too, has been pushed back, from this Thursday until Saturday morning/afternoon.

We—meaning my family—cannot be at the house during the open house, so the realtor has told us that we can’t be in the house for about three and a half hours while it goes on this Saturday.

About the only good thing about that is that for a few hours, we will be at bowling with my son, so that will kill some time.

But the open house can extend to Sunday if necessary ... and if anyone wants to actually walk through the house on Sunday, we can be here, but we have to basically sit on the couch in the living room; we have to be inconspicuous while people are looking through the house, almost like being human furniture while people go through the house.

It kind of takes the taste out of your mouth, doesn’t it?

And then we have my wife’s job …

She continues to suffer from the after-effects of her brain injury that she suffered in May, and thus, the job became a bit undoable for her.

So she worked yesterday--the evening shift after working the morning shift on Sunday--and she bid the job farewell.

She lasted a month at this position, but now she knows that the brain injury’s lingering effects are not going away anytime soon, and that she is going to have to watch herself now, and maybe for the rest of her life.

So that job is history, and what job she actually can do right now or into the future is anyone’s guess.

Her workman’s comp case continues—she has a hearing coming up—so we will see how that goes.

And then we have this convention I have to cover …

This is a three-day, all encompassing affair that begins today … but I still have not been given the coordinates of how I virtually attend the conference—which is very unusual, as it never happened to me before—so I am pretty much bound to where I am until I find out what is going on.

Not only does the conference last pretty much all day—8 a.m. to 4 p.m. or thereabouts—but I then have to provide some type of write-up for this thing, so I will be working into the evening today to get something out.

I have to tell you … with everything going on now with my family and myself, this is probably the absolute worst time for me to be covering something like this, as I am really not into it at all.

But being a professional, I will persevere, and get through the conference and hand in some decent stories to my work about it all.

This will pretty much preclude me from writing Rants for the next two days, so I am going to take the next two days off from here, and will speak to you again on Friday.


This is just a bad time for myself and my family all around, but we are just going to have to suck it up and do our best to get through it all.

There are no other options; there is nothing else that we can do.