I know. I know. Alright, already.

Where to begin...

What began as, what I anticipated to be, a simple job of swapping out the sound processor in my truck became a 6 hour event in the wet Home Depot parking lot. Thankfully my friend was with me to help out. I currently live in a condo so I don't have a garage or a driveway to work / tinker from. Instead, we uninstalled the sub box and amplifiers and stuffed them into his car to keep them dry. Consider that the sub box is built for my full size SUV and he has a mid size car... yeah, it was a miracle. That's the hard part, right? Wrong. Technology decided to fuck me too. The software that the sound processor runs on isn't very friendly with Windows 8. It took 2 hours and web forum work arounds to get it on his computer. Why use his computer? Well, because the software doesn't run on a mac. I'm so glad I bought this fuckin computer... MacBook Pro? I am not... moving on now and we reinstall the equipment, but the new processor will not take the old tune from the previous processor. This may not seem like a big deal, but I spent hours and hours tweaking that tune so I didn't want to lose it. Anyway, more hours of frustration follow and we give up loading the old tune. By now we're over 5 hours into this and I've had it so I put together a half ass tune. Frankly, it sounds like shit... loud which is what thousands of watts does all by itself and like shit which is the result of a 20 minute tune. Tomorrow is a new day.

During the stereo shit show, I was vaping like a mad man and I hadn't eaten in over 24 hours. My fuckin heart was beating out of my chest which basically had me looking up every 30 minutes asking God "why?" I finally get home and the dalliance that was planned falls through because it's now the evening instead of the early afternoon... sigh. I was all out of sorts. I have some salad from a bag and black olives that Panthea bought years ago, but gratefully don't expire until 2017!! Small victories. The food helped, but the break from nicotine poisoning probably did more.

After a load and some laundry, I settle in for a movie. I'm just starting to wind down and the phone rings so I dump the whole story on my friend, John. He says to me, "Why did you pick today to do the install? It snowed this morning." Well, I bought the new processor yesterday and I wanted to get it installed." Oh, so the old one finally stopped turning on?" "No, but I wanted to get it done in time for the retreat." "But the retreat isn't until the middle of March..." "Right." "So, basically you wanted instant gratification. Didn't you read the just for today?" "Yes, I read the title... It said, God's will or mine?" "Exactly."

Wow.