minutia

I usually have more of a plan when I sit down to write something but my eggs are currently scrambled. Some travel mistakes were made and they were all my fault but I am suffering nonetheless. For some reason that escaped me while it was happening I booked a return redeye flight on Thursday. Technically we were supposed to take off Friday morning at 12:40am and for the life of me I don’t know what I was thinking when booking other than I am cheap. When I finally left Portland at 1:00am it was 3:00am at home putting me on the snowy ground a little before six.

According to my watch I slept for approximately an hour and ten minutes in total on the flight. By the time I got home my thundering headache dictated a nap so I sequestered myself in the windowless spare bedroom and grabbed another fitful two hours before my spinning brain intervened. Needless to say I floated through the rest of that day - apologizing to everyone I had meetings with for being dumb.

I had big early to bed plans that night but its also March Madness so between good games, gambling, and gummies, (that was a lot of g’s…) I didn’t hit the rack until midnight. I did get a lot of sleep last night but I am still off my game. Oh, and in the midst of all that on Friday I finally had it with at&t.

Could have been the lack of sleep, could have been my kids finally getting off my account and paying a fraction of what I was, or the notification that my bill was increasing. Whatever the final straw, I jumped into the lesbomobile and headed over to Costco. An hour later I was signed up for the very reasonable Geriatric plan that even included undiluted in flight internet even if Delta wasn’t supplying it which is nice. The only problems I had with the switch were from at&t.

I’m not going to ore you with their bullshit but noting is easy with them. When I finally got through to someone at their customer lack of support department they kept trying to get me to stay with them rather than listen to me and help with the switch. So I resorted to gobbledygook. “Chicken lips, fly paper, ring around the collar.” they asked me to repeat what I said so “Sissy bar, thunderbird, banana flap.” The next response was I’m sorry to which I replied that they should be and if they were going to talk nonsense then two could play at that game.

I was given a very helpful text number that generated my Transfer PIN. Sometimes you just need to speak their language. Now I’m just cleaning up all of the settings that got messed up by the change. Again, I think this is just spite for leaving but I’ll play this game to save more than a hundred dollars a month. And now I have to go and get my walk in before my game of the day begins.

Go Clones!