Too much ANTICIPATION is NOT a good thing!

When you have had a L-O-N-G and busy week, don't you look forward to getting home Friday night and just crashing and burning?  I do!  You can binge on Netflix movies, or read an entire book while drinking an entire bottle of wine or ... Oops.... didn't mean to get carried away in my own fantasies,there.

Anyway, such was my case  recently. I taught all day, picked up Vimy at doggie daycare, ran a few errands, went to a HOT FUSION yoga class, and finally dashed in the door at 6:30 pm.  I immediately turned on the oven, to preheat it, for my fancy '"Nachos and Cheese" supper, made sure I had a cold beer in the fridge, and ran upstairs to run water for a hot bath. You REALLY, REALLY stink when you come out of a HOT yoga class.

That all done, I went over to the TV, and turned it on.  It came on, but then NO SIGNAL, when I pressed GUIDE.  I COULDN'T believe it!  I was madder than a wet hen, as I fiddled and fiddled to make the TV come on. I rebooted it, plus checked all the cords and wiring. I did EVERYTHING!  No luck WHATSOEVER!  Thank goodness I have Rogers on speed dial.   So I called them... had to leave my number, so I ended up in a callback queue. While I waited for the call back, I turned OFF the faucet for the bath water, but COMPLETELY forgot about the oven.  After 45 minutes on the phone with a Rogers techie, I was no closer to resolving my problem. At this point I would have been saying "I HATE ROGERS! I HATE ROGERS!"   What was the point though? It didn't change anything.  However, I did have an appointment for a technician to show up at my door Sunday morning between 8 and 11 am.

ALL OF WHICH STILL DID NOT SOLVE MY PROBLEM.  I had been all psyched up to watch the last two hours, of the sixth season, and the GRAND FINALE of DOWNTON ABBEY.  I had been waiting TWO years for this.  I had to return the DVDs to the library in a few days. No question of renewing.

It was 8:30 before I sat down in a rocking chair, with a mostly cold nachos platter, having taken a quick,lukewarm bath and having managed to hook up my laptop to a 15" monitor, so that I FINALLY could watch what I had intended to watch two hours earlier.  ARRGH!!!

NOT the most comfortable position, NOR the best viewing (I kept having to tilt the darn monitor), but hey.... mission accomplished.

I still love to hate Rogers, but I love to hate LADY MARY a lot more. Isn't she a total, total witch?
I am going to go into DOWNTON ABBEY withdrawal.  Sigh!

PS:  The techie fixed my problem in two minutes. Their HDMI cord wasn't plugged in from the TV into the Nexbox. I don't know how that happened!  The lady on the phone Friday night, told me I only needed two cords to be coming out of the Nexbox, NOT three.  I HATE ROGERS!