Ten

I went on a cleaning binge this afternoon. After washing the crock pot insert, I turned it upside-down on a towel, so it could air dry. I noticed that the bottom was wonderfully oxidized.

In other news, I stayed home from work today, and it’s a good thing I did. Maintenance is prepping the apartment above mine for new tenants (yes, the amazing dream neighbors moved out last month). The carpet guy was here today, and apparently he left the machine turned on, so that it was spewing water everywhere. This of course meant that I once again had Niagara Falls in my bathroom. Aieee! Water everywhere. So I had to clean the bathroom from top to bottom, because everything was drenched.

I also had to deal with Comcast’s sucktacular phone system. I had the worst time trying to get through. I don’t know if there was some sort of technical glitch or if this is a new “feature.” I got stuck in an endless phone menu loop, then gave up and tried an alternate number printed on my bill. New endless loop, so I hunted online and found a third number. That one finally worked. Yay! All that because my DVR quit working last night. I’m guessing the hard drive has died. This would not have been a big problem, except I didn’t watch Lost when it was broadcast. I decided I’d watch it after it was finished airing, so that I could skip commercials. Bad plan! We are not amused. So after getting thoroughly frustrated with Comcast’s wonky phone system, I have an appointment for a tech to come out on Friday morning.

And because shit always happens in threes, the wireless router decided that this morning would be a good time to give me fits. Or so I thought. I moved my laptop into the living room, next to the modem and router, so that I could troubleshoot more easily. After plugging the modem directly into the laptop, and still having some weird problems, it occurred to me that I should try restarting the computer. That should always be the first step in troubleshooting, because chances are, that’ll solve it. And it did. Apparently something didn’t load correctly when I started my computer the first time, so I got (more) frustrated for nothing.