Rantings of a Lunatic

Today has been steadily going downhill, with every pause the next level of the pass has seemed lower than the current one. That is not the Outlook I want to share though, so bear with a little background and then I will explain why its not really that bad.
On Monday I called ATT because it had been a week and I had not been contacted by their service department to tell me when I would finally have internet at home. We went over the upstream fiber issue, and they set a new install date for Wednesday from 12 to 2, and said it would take up to 4 hours. I asked one of my supervisors, who said it would be ok, and planned on working from home for half the day today. This morning, I got into work, and things were going ok. I was progressively having problems with a server, but that’s what I get paid for, so whatever. At noon I took off, figuring if the tech called me, I would be on the road, and he could wait, a little vengence for all of the late arrivals in service history.
Around 1:45, I get a call that the tech is running late. I start getting mad.
At 3:30 the tech calls and says he is on his way and will be there in 15 minutes. When he gets there, he says, oh, they didn’t fix the fiber problem, let me see if I can get a fiber tech out here. He also said he form’t get my order until 3, and gave me his cell. That was cool.
He spent about anhour making calls, trying to get it resolved, then left eventually saying the other tech would be out today, and to call him after or tomorrow to set a new install time.
At 6:40, there was a knock on the door, and the fiber tech came in and confirmed he had fixed the problem, but it was too late for Curtis to come back out. I said ok, fine, its been 33 days without internet at home, what’s a couple more? I had given up and was about to go for a run, so I did that when the fiber tech left.
When I got to the gym, there were a pair of people on the treadmills walking slower than snails. So I used the other machines for 40 minutes and gave up on waiting for them, and just ran home. I had been trying not to run outside yet for a couple of reasons, (heat, no pockets for my phone, exchange policy on my shoes, etc) but I did.
Then I decided to go get a chicken ceaser salad and a beer, because I didn’t feel like cooking. When I got to Opal’s I found out that had been off the menu for a year. Guess I have been eating too many Tuna Melts. So I got a garden salad with grilled chicken and chipotle ranch on the side.
I was a little disheartened, but when I got it, I was reading a post from Dumb Little Man, about eating healthy, and my whole view of the day changed. The salad was great, the post reaffirmed my healthy eating, and I thought about my perspective.
If you think positive, things tend to work out better. And I want that more frequently. I want to transform my point of view to looking at how annoyances maybe blessings instead.