an unsatisfying evening
unsatisfying event 1
cable guy came to install the cable hookup in my room. he arrived on time (FOR ONCE!), but everything proceeded to go downhill from there. he hooked up the cable pretty quickly, but when i went to test it, it was all staticky. looked around the room for a long time because he insisted there was another cable box besides the one in talida’s closet because the cable behind my wall was coming from above (not below, where her closet is). after telling him the other cable guys who came and installed our cable the first time couldn’t find any other, he went back to talida’s closet and using his “beepy tool,” found that my cable did in fact lead to the same cable box but was somehow pushed below the opening of the cable box so he missed it the first time.
after he hooked it up, he asked me to check if the other TVs were ok. they were, but mine was complete static because he had disconnected my cable to connect his diagnostic tools. when i told him this, he said “oh go ahead and take that off and test your cable.” alright…. so i went to my box thinking perhaps i just needed to connect my cable to the bracket… no, the bracket wasn’t even connected to the wall. i had to remove his diagnostic tools, connect the 2 wires to my bracket (i worried that i would reverse positive and negative wires or something like that! are there even positive/negative wires in cable?!), then connect my cable to the wall bracket and then to the TV.
but it all worked. i hadn’t connected the wall bracket to the wall because i wasn’t sure whether i had done everything properly and whether he needed to do anything else? when he came up to check if everything was working, i expected him to take a look at the wall and to reattach the wall bracket to the wall after everything was ok-ed. instead, he told me “i’m running late now since this took so long so you’re going to need to reattach the bracket to the wall.” uh… cuse me?? isn’t it YOUR job to install my cable, not mine??? don’t you want to verify everything is correct?! is it my fault you couldn’t find the cable hookup? i mean, you’re the expert not me!!!
whatever. and i just noticed, he left some wire on my bed. thanks!
unsatisfying event 2
i lost 2 games of settlers but i was oh so close! the first time, i had like 8 points before tina finally won. the 2nd time, i needed a 3 (don’t laugh! 3s were rolled more than some of the other common numbers and was the only reason tina and i were close to winning) and a 4 to be rolled to get my 10th point to win. the 4 was rolled, but because tina also got cards (6 sheep!!) and she went right before me, she won. (i tried rolling right afterwards to see what might have been… i got a 12 and a 10 before i finally got the 3 i needed to win.
unsatisfying event 3
bang sucks now. the way we’ve been playing (all 7 roles are played, with the extra roles coming into the game as players are killed off) leaves a lot of scenarios to chance… because u don’t know what roles will come out in what order, there’s a possibility that it could be 1 sheriff against 3 outlaws or 1 sheriff and 2 vices against 1 outlaw. tonight we had some weird scenario where the same person got killed off all 4 times. and somehow, the team pairings weren’t varied either. something was terribly wrong… like all the possible bad scenarios all happened tonight 
really detracted from the game and i dunno if i’d want to play ever again!
