It is really not that bad... Last weekend started very nice. I came back to US to spend several days in Florida with girlfriends. Those next few days were a heavenly yet lighting fast blur of relaxing on the beach, having some champagne while analyzing a ladies magazine, and walking around Miami dressed to kill and succeeding. Dan's desperate Skype: "Homework is down the sh9tter, kids stuffing themselves with junk food and watching cartoons, please come back home" sent me back to earth and the UK :).
Things were really not that bad at home: kids were doing their homework and were actually doing a pretty good job with it as well. The weather was starting to cool down but as it were we are having it obnoxiously good with barely a few rains in the last three months. Our landlord has restored the hot water. And the work was inspirational as usual.
I guess it just came down to a few yak instances with service people and services. As I mentioned a few months ago our TV freezes every couple of minutes. After a long series of phone calls with the support we finally established that it is hopeless and we need a technician to come over. Technician never showed up. Today I decided to try calling customer support line again. The lady on the other end screamed at me for not warning them sooner that technician did not show up. Seriously. I've tried to explain that I did send them the text about it when it happened. And this is somewhat their problem that their people do not show up to work and there is no follow up. Eventually we agreed to try to send another technician over. I've spent the next hour waiting on the phone. She was mostly silent. Every now and then I would ask what she was working on. And she would reply that she is trying to schedule an appointment. And so I kept on waiting. It may be just me but that phone call had a slightly S&M character to it. And I did not like the M part so much.
To celebrate the upcoming restoration of TV I went out for a run during lunch. Polar watch showed dying battery. I replaced it just a few weeks ago with the key-watch repair guy at the market shop. I've been to that place a number of times to make spare keys, get shoe wax, and most recently to replace the batteries. So I went there and asked him what happened. He said he's never seen me before in his life. When I reminded him that he told me about his 3 year old kid and a few other things his face showed recognition but he kept denying ever seeing me. He was very rude and kept ignoring me and talking with other customers. Eventually after everyone left, he opened up the watch and said that they don't even stock my brand of batteries. After he closed it up it was solid dead. Very sad. The business in question is Thimpson. I still need to hop in and get the name of the fine specimen of humanity. In case anyone else wants him to replace their dead Polar batteries.
There were a few other minor incidents like Starbucks barista trying to convince Dan than half and half diluted with water is how they make skim milk. Or ATM locking up yet another time and charging our card in the meanwhile. These things are not particular to the UK. And they will always happen. The important thing is that as long as there are friends to spend great time with those things are really not a big deal.
Things were really not that bad at home: kids were doing their homework and were actually doing a pretty good job with it as well. The weather was starting to cool down but as it were we are having it obnoxiously good with barely a few rains in the last three months. Our landlord has restored the hot water. And the work was inspirational as usual.
I guess it just came down to a few yak instances with service people and services. As I mentioned a few months ago our TV freezes every couple of minutes. After a long series of phone calls with the support we finally established that it is hopeless and we need a technician to come over. Technician never showed up. Today I decided to try calling customer support line again. The lady on the other end screamed at me for not warning them sooner that technician did not show up. Seriously. I've tried to explain that I did send them the text about it when it happened. And this is somewhat their problem that their people do not show up to work and there is no follow up. Eventually we agreed to try to send another technician over. I've spent the next hour waiting on the phone. She was mostly silent. Every now and then I would ask what she was working on. And she would reply that she is trying to schedule an appointment. And so I kept on waiting. It may be just me but that phone call had a slightly S&M character to it. And I did not like the M part so much.
To celebrate the upcoming restoration of TV I went out for a run during lunch. Polar watch showed dying battery. I replaced it just a few weeks ago with the key-watch repair guy at the market shop. I've been to that place a number of times to make spare keys, get shoe wax, and most recently to replace the batteries. So I went there and asked him what happened. He said he's never seen me before in his life. When I reminded him that he told me about his 3 year old kid and a few other things his face showed recognition but he kept denying ever seeing me. He was very rude and kept ignoring me and talking with other customers. Eventually after everyone left, he opened up the watch and said that they don't even stock my brand of batteries. After he closed it up it was solid dead. Very sad. The business in question is Thimpson. I still need to hop in and get the name of the fine specimen of humanity. In case anyone else wants him to replace their dead Polar batteries.
There were a few other minor incidents like Starbucks barista trying to convince Dan than half and half diluted with water is how they make skim milk. Or ATM locking up yet another time and charging our card in the meanwhile. These things are not particular to the UK. And they will always happen. The important thing is that as long as there are friends to spend great time with those things are really not a big deal.
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