Sometimes, ya know, stars just do not align.

Sometimes, Murphy's Law is your unofficial middle name.

Sometimes your life constantly feels like this.  You cautiously open a baggie of lil' bitty screws, they launch themselves everywhere.But try as one might, and oh I do, sometimes you will be constantly disappointed.  Or, maybe what I mean is that after a series of disappointing events, it feels like the world is heavy on my DIY shoulders.  Sounds not real cheery; at times, yeah I'm grumpy as all get out, but in the grand scheme, it's not the end of the world.  (I suppose.  Right")

Try again one must.  Keep moving forward.  Pull the feet out of the mire.

But.  This is a blog....I will prattle onwards, thank you.
Take for instance this whole humidifier* thing. (If you missed any of the story, part one is here, part two can then be found here, and the third part here.)

Slurppy slurppy...the weird appendage sucking the life out of our furnace.After waiting two weeks for a Honeywell person to contact me, someone named Paul rings me up.  We had a half hour, I'd say "conversation" but it wasn't as he spoke for twenty seven minutes, me for three.  The ol' drown 'em in words theory.

First Paul tries to be all nice.  I was pleasant too.  Really, I was, I swear.

He didn't know why he was calling me or what the issues were, he had not been briefed.  He also thought I had a completely different ...