Lesson Learned

Y’all know how when Jake travels the shit hits the fan around the house, so to speak? I’ve had broken garage doors, a car broken into, overflowing toilets, broken gates….. Now every time he is packing and preparing for his trips, I look around the house and try to see if anything gives me a clue that it might decide to give me problems while he’s away. I’m not above making Jake climb up in the attic at 1 a.m. to replace a furnace filter.  But usually the stuff that goes wrong is not anything I can predict. And this time is no exception.

Our cable company decided to “upgrade” their digital menuing recently. I personally don’t find it to be much of an upgrade. Especially because, and get ready for this, fellow television-ophiles, the download of the new menuing LOST 48 HOURS OF OUR RECORDED PROGRAMMING.   It’s just gone. Well, I take that back, it’s there, you can tell on the recorder status. It’s just not accessible. I’ve spent literally hours on the phone with them and there is just not much they can do. They insist that something must have happened during the download to interrupt it and that caused the problem. Whatever. How about if you had warned people of your impending “upgrade” and the possibility that programming could be lost if conditions were not perfect, I might not have lost all this stuff? We might have cleaned it out. We might have watched it had we known it was important to do so at that time. But now it’s gone.

I considered yelling and demanding reparations, but really, what can they do? It’s a TV show. It has no value. And honestly, if I am this annoyed by losing a television show, then I guess I need to take a long hard look at my life, don’t I? It’s just TV. It doesn’t matter. In 20 years will I remember whether I saw those last two episodes of Life and Chuck? No. I probably won’t even remember those shows existed no matter how much I like them right now.

It turns out the problem was probably our DVR to begin with so they are coming today (priority appointment without me having to ask!) to bring and install a new box. Hopefully this won’t happen again but I think my lesson here is to not get so attached to stupid things that mean nothing. I enjoy TV. I admit it. I don’t think there is anything wrong with it. But when it adds stress to your life, then maybe it’s time to cut back.

Maybe I’ll finally finish that craft project I started weeks ago for Bridget’s room and get that up before her first birthday. That might be a good use of my time.

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