Glen’s Thanksgiving day
So, I played 2 1/2 hours of hockey last night… which turned out to be a very bad move considering the day I had to partake in.
- I started the day by being woken up after 3 hours of sleep when my daughter wanted a bottle. Fed her and went back to bed for another hour, when my other daughter woke me up to let me know she had wet the bed. Cleaned her, and her bed, up and changed her and waited for my wife to get home.
Once my wife got home, I had to go out into the yard and start putting up our snow fence to stop the drifting that occurs over our driveway. After hurting my foot (don’t ask… I shouldn’t do manual labor) and after driving 15-6 foot stakes 1 foot into the ground with a sledgehammer, I took a shower and then took both kids to my grandparents for Thanksgiving day.
There, I had to listen to some of the worst sports fans that I can ever recall. I knew this going in, but these guys are terrible. If you watched the Packer game today, you know that they were down 6-0 about 10 minutes into the first quarter. No less than 3 plays into the game, half of the group was saying… “We’re going to get destroyed today.” Yeah, cause you can tell so much about a game from the first 1:30. I hate fans like that…
So, I have a few things to eat and watch the rest of the game. My oldest daughter is spends most of the time with my father (whom I’m not really on speaking terms with) and proceeds to use him to get whatever she wants all day, eating an insane amount of sugar and basically being a pain in the butt.
I get the girls bundled up and bring them back home and find that neither of them really wants to eat or cooperate and they both cry until around 8:00.
Then I looked at Amazon and see that the HD-A3 is now priced at $159.99 and still includes the 10 free movies. I put my order in… verify that I’m going to get my three free movies and then decide that I’ll give Amazon Prime a whirl. It’s a free trial… why not? Well, as soon as I sign up for it… the movies that I was going to buy from the HD-A3 sale cease being freebies. They now ring up at full price. So, I call their support line and tell them about it. The person barely speaks English and informs me that she’ll cancel the order because there is nothing she can do… except she can’t cancel one of the movies for some reason. She then informs me that I need to call my bank and tell them not to honor the charge… great…
So, with one order for the HD-A3 cancelled, I proceed to try and order it again with Prime. Still no freebies, but now I’m waiting on Amazon’s email customer service to see if they can handle the issue with the 3 movies not being zeroed out.
At that point, I decide to play some Rock Band… figuring that could help me get some of my issues from the day out. Oh, no. I can’t do that because the damn red pad sucks ass and doesn’t register 2 or 3 hits out of 10. The other pads miss about 1 out of 10. I stopped myself just short of throwing my drumsticks and proceed to put in Guitar Hero 3… which surprisingly I’m able to play quite well (on easy, natch) and manage to salvage a few minutes of sanity at the end of my day.
With about 30 minutes left in Thanksgiving day… I’m petrified of doing anything else, as I don’t want to know what else will go wrong today. At least the Packers won….