buckI spent most of today trying to iron out a minor speed bump on the road to building a new home. I won’t bore you with the details other than to say I have been chasing in circles on both the wireless and Internet.

Most financial institutions have a voice menu tree a mile long. Not only that, when you get through to the crappy elevator music, a voice that tells me all of our associates are busy with other customers, so please stay on the line. I was aggravated before the call, more after the phone tree and even more than that after the five or ten minute wait to actually get a human on the line. Hard to remain civil when you talk to the person, but I need them to do something for me. Seems ass backwards to me, but I guess that’s life in the electronic age.