HomeAviationTravelPhotosMinistryResourcesBlogFunFilesXtraFilesResumeEmailTemp
Andy Borgmann's Blog
Where The Producer Gets the Mic
Next: Google Thinks I Play Football for Homestead High School Previous: Where Have I Been? Answer: I Have No Integrity
What A Horrendous Day Off
What A Horrendous Day OffYou ever have the days where it just feels like every single thing goes wrong. As everyone else goes into a three day weekend, I was looking forward to at least one day off. But that just wasn't in the cards...

It started on Wednesday when I noticed water dripping from my ceiling. So I called my home warranty company and supposedly a local company was coming out.

Anyways, long story short, it was horrendous customer service by the local company and the home warranty company and they weren't going to get someone out by Tuesday - all the while water is dripping from my ceiling. I decided to cut my loss on that one and call a local company that advertises on WSB. It cost me a $1,000 and I have obnoxiously loud fans blowing all weekend, but I still think it was the better decision.

If that wasn't enough, I sat down to work on one little computer project (personal, not work) that I thought would take 30 minutes...it ended up taking six hours! Whole day gone.

Then, just for the icing on the cake, I go out to my mailbox, and my lovely dentist (who I actually can't stand), sent me a bill because I guess my new insurance doesn't cover as much as my old insurance did.

So what do you do we it seems like all the crap hits the fans?

It isn't even the time and the money. I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't like dropping $1,000 bucks that isn't travel related, but at least I sort of have it. And it isn't like the loss of one day off in the grand scheme of things is going to be anything. But it still doesn't negate the fact that sometimes days like this are just going to happen.

We did a show back in October of last year about this, but to be frank, I can't remember what was said. But I think the two things that I always remember is that 1.) the worst day I can have (minus maybe losing a loved-one) would be traded in a second by billions of people around the world and 2.) there's nothing I can really do about it at this point, and it doesn't help the situation to be in a bad mood about it.

Alright...well, the burgers are done, I got friends over (despite the fans), and here's to a better night...
Comments
The Last Cainanite
Saturday, August 30, 2008 02:20:55 PM    Quote Selection | Permalink
Gravatar.com You need to get the warranty company to reimburse you for the $1000. If they resist (and they will) threaten to sue them in small claims court and then do it. Water would have done additional damage by Tuesday so you actually did them a favor as I see it.

You also mentioned something about burgers. Am I invited? :)


Andy Borgmann
Saturday, August 30, 2008 02:23:19 PM    Quote Selection | Permalink
Gravatar.com LC you are always invited. And if you think it is a bunch of Fundies hanging out...you'd be wrong - just ask Nathan ;)

And I am working on the reimbursement issue - I need to take to my dad first (my attorney) to see how to proceed.


Join the Discussion and Post A Comment
Name:
Email Address
(mandatory - always private
also will be used for gravatar)
:
Website/Blog (optional):
(Standard HTML Tags allowed - a,b,blockquote,br,code,i,li,ol,ul - abusers will be logged and blocked)

What's Andy Up To?

Description
Andy is the Executive Producer of The Allen Hunt Show; a progressive, talk radio show based in Atlanta, GA aimed at bringing faith back into the public discussion. Andy enjoys travel, aviation, web design, politics, friends, and faith. He holds that the secret to a full life is loving God and loving people - which he fails at constantly.

Andy's blog is a place to discuss religion, politics, ministry, education, and well, just life - especially focused on the time of life we call our 20s! It is cross-post at The Allen Hunt Show, and, in a more limited fashion, at Newsvine.

Andy grew up in Fort Wayne, IN. He now lives in Alpharetta, GA.

More information about Andy can be found at www.2timothy42.org or Andy's Virb.

P.S. As has been mentioned on air, Andy is horrible at grammar and spelling. Please excuse any mistakes, trust me, he's sorry.



Email Subscribe

Powered by FeedBurner


Calendar
<<    <    Aug 2008    >    >>
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
     1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31