Caught In The Whirlwind
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Soulsucking After Vacation Monday
Nov 26th 2007
Mondays after a 4 day weekend are horrible. Which is why I refuse to answer today's Vox Hunt question. Because there's nothing good about Monday.
It started when I got up this morning. You see, my landlords are switching to a pellet stove for heat generation and they switched their side of the house yesterday and were going to do mine today. So, it got a bit chilly in there by the time I woke up. Nothing major, it was only down to 68 or so, which I'm fine with. But the fact that they're going to be coming into my place to do some work means I needed to clean up a little bit which is exactly what I want to do first thing in the morning.
I finished doing that and getting ready for work. I then made my lunch since I'm trying to not go home for lunch quite so much since my car doesn't get 30MPG anymore and gas prices shot up pretty quick there. Even though I live about 10 minutes from work, that travel adds up, so I'm trying to be better about staying in. Of course…I forgot my lunch on the counter as I'm walking out the door. Grrr…
And at the moment, I'm at work fighting with stuff that doesn't seem to want to work at all. And tonight I was supposed to go over to my partner's place to work on the Software Engineering project that's coming due in a couple weeks but he ended up having to work tonight.
Man, I miss that 4 day weekend.
Note To Self:
Nov 14th 2006
Blazin’ Buffalo & Ranch Doritos, while tasting good, make me sick to my stomach. An alternative lunchtime sandwich side item should be considered for future lunches.
Urghhhh.
Arrggh!
Nov 1st 2006
I keep thinking today can’t get any worse. Then it does.
First I get a call from a customer, saying they’re having some problems with something I did. No big deal really…fixed that, sent them off a new version. Then they get back to me with some minor cosmetic things (they seem very, very fixated on everything looking exactly like they think it should). I start into that, then end up going to lunch.
I get home, realize I don’t have any meat for a sandwich. Go for the backup peanut butter crackers and realize I don’t have crackers. I then go for plan C, the toasted cheese sandwich. I burn that somehow.
Get back to work, get a note on my desk saying another customer is having some problems with something else I worked on. They’re trying to send out a bunch of mass e-mails and I wrote this thing which connects directly to a SMTP server and sends them out. Works fine here. I finished this at least a month ago. They have to send their e-mails out today. When did we test to see if it worked on their site? Yesterday of course. Does it work? Are you kidding me? Of course not!!
So now I’m trying to scramble to figure out why it’s not working, because I can’t actually connect through our VPN and test it out due to their firewall (Can’t connect out through their internet connection while on the VPN).
So…can today get any worse?
Just A Random Moment While Driving
Aug 18th 2006
So I was driving home for lunch today (I work close to my apartment, so I go home for lunch every day) behind a FedEx truck. And I look down the road and I see a UPS truck coming down the road as well. I figured since they’re competitors and stuff, one would try to run the other off the road or something. Or play a very slow moving version of chicken…seeing which driver has more courage.
Unfortunately, reality kicked in and the UPS guy just waved to the FedEx guy as they passed by. Darn. Maybe next time they’ll do something interesting.
As I’ve said before, I’m aware that I’m weird. And bored.
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