I’ve been staying with my good friends Beth and Steve for a few days while Beth recoups from her recent surgery. My presence may be more of a stress than help (I can hear the shouting start now) depending on who you talk to and when, but that discussion is for another post on another day.
The first few days of Beth’s recuperation were spent on the wonderful drug Codeine. Ask any arthritis sufferer and they can probably recite their favorite pain killers in alphabetical order and list their somewhat dangerous and in some cases amusing side effects. In Beth’s case while taking Codeine she became even cuter, jumbling her words and smiling while doing it. Car became couch, clock turned into TV and sentences were short. So endearing.
Mr. Wilson, sometimes known as Steve, or Hey You, is the King of All Things Cool. I always look forward to seeing what fun tools or toys he will have added to his collection. For Christmas Steve received a tower tool box, a multi-drawer stainless steel Kobalt. The glare from the steel box as I opened the garage door almost blinded me. I could have sworn I heard music from 2001 Space Odyssey playing. After I put on my shades we marveled together at all the drawer space, sub drawer space and the secret entrance way in the back to the eternal playground known as WilsonPlayland. Even cooler is how one could spend an entire day in the lower drawers building a complete computer system from all the parts stored there. Ah yes, all things are possible in Wilsonland.
Thursday in Wilsonland ended up being an “I’ll Arrive When I Darn Well Feel Like It” day with the local cable company. Turns out an Internet scheduled 8 to 10 appointment complete with a printed out confirmation sheet, followed by a phone call to confirm said appointment means squat. The King stayed home from work waiting for the cable company to arrive during the appointment time, and when they didn’t show he handled the 45 minutes on hold to find out why in true form by multi-tasking. He had lunch, engaged in a lively conversation with Patty and Beth, checked that everything was in order if and when they decided to show up and completed work on his computer. A 1:30 meeting finally pulled the King away, which was really no problem because apparently there is no such thing as any kind of a morning appointment. Right around 4:45pm the ball started rolling and like a stone on a hill going downhill it picked up speed. Right up until 7:00ish. Then nothing. 8:30 and you could hear our stomachs manically screaming “its dinner time”. Skip to 11:30pm, final score: 2 out of 4 TV’s working, not bad. Not good though. Friday plans include another visit from the cable company. Appointment time? Between 8 and 5.
