the wheel in the sky keeps on turning
One of my least favorite things to do in the world — only slightly more tolerable than being strapped to a chair and forced to listen to Vogon poetry — is waiting around all day for service/tech/sales/uniformed people to come and service something/install something/sell something/shoot something.
They like to give you these “windows” of time, like “sometime around the Fifth of September, give or take a week”, and it’s pretty much impossible to get any work done while you’re sitting around waiting them to make their “window”, even if you work out of the house.
I have a sneaking suspicion that these service people actually get a perverse pleasure out of knowing that their crappy little fifteen minute repair job is going to devour six or seven hours of your life … and that’s assuming they don’t get lost and have to call you fifteen times on their cell phone because they can’t figure out the difference between Apple Avenue in Palos Verdes and Orange Avenue in Pasadena.
At this very moment I am sitting in my chair waiting for some satellite installer to come and upgrade my dish and give me a nice, spanking new HD DVR for my DirecTV and HD rig.
This makes me nervous.
This makes me nervous because it is the first time since subscribing to DirecTV eight years ago that someone other than myself has installed my satellite system. I’m what you call a Type-Tech-A personality, which means that I always, always, always build my own computer systems, repair my own computer systems, install my own satellite dishes, realign my own satellite dishes, etc.
Since some stranger is scheduled to come and fiddle with my own fucking equipment, I have some personal growth to take care of. I have to learn to let go. To trust. To delegate. All those mature types of things. I’m an adult. I can do it. I can grow.
And if the guy does anything even remotely stupid (which is likely) I will calmly retrieve my mature kitchen knife, maturely stab him in his stupid little eye, and maturely kick his ass off my property so I can install my own dish. Five LNBs and all.