Rant #3,212: Can't Help Myself

Whatever can go wrong will go wrong … ?

Yes, that is what is happening with my family and I.

We seem to be under a very dark cloud right now, and it is following us around like we are impaled to it with no end in sight.

The latest brick in that load is that on Sunday, we completely lost our phone, Internet and television service.

We had absolutely nothing—it just went out, without warning.

So I called Verizon, and after a couple of instances of being cut off and not getting to someone on the phone, I finally reached somebody, but he had bad news for me.

They could not get someone out here to survey what happened—and hopefully fix it—until sometime during the day on Tuesday.

Evidently, there have been a lot of outages since we got hit with that Ophelia storm late last week, and a lot of people are out due to water damage of one sort or another.

I did not think that ours has nothing to do with that, but we still were going to have to wait to see.

So that meant that we had nothing here, no phone, no Internet, no TV, for a few days.

I can’t do work without the Internet, so what I had to do was to use some other devices not in the house so I could get things done.

On Sunday, I went to my sister’s house to download some material, and then yesterday, while I was getting my car done, I used their customer computer to actually send some work in, as well as check my email and some other things that I couldn’t do at the time at home.

(And did I mention that the car dealer used a towel to clean my inside window, which has made it almost impossible to see out of the front window of the car without the defogger and windshield wipers going full blast? Sheesh!)

If you are able to read this, then Verizon has solved the problem and we are good to go again, but I just find it very odd that everything is happening at the same time with my family and I, and as I mentioned in another Rant, it has almost gotten to the point where we are constantly looking over our shoulders for the next mishap to come.

(Yes, the problem was fixed on Tuesday afternoon—we suspect that someone looking at the house was in the basement and might have touched something that was not of their concern, and this knocked out our services, as the technician found something unplugged that should not have been.)

I mean, summing up, what more can go wrong at this moment in time?

On a good note—I guess it is a good note—we have had about three dozen groups look at the house, with several more having coming on Tuesday.

No offers from what I understand, but there is a lot of interest, so I guess that is a good thing.

But with interest rates the way they are, I think people are looking, but not buying, right at the moment.

They are hoping against hope that these rates go down, as rumor has it that they are supposed to do sometime next year, so I guess like with anything else, you can shop around all you want, but you don’t have to buy anything right at this point in time.

The one possible drawback is that you are banking on what you want still being available when you are ready to go for it, and that might not be the case with this house.

It is a cat and mouse game, like everything else is, but the question I have remains the same:

Where does all of this leave myself and my family?

And the answer is the same:

I have absolutely no idea, none at all.