Anyone Else Having the Day From Hell?

[raincoaster]

I can't believe today. If you're on a "happy roll" you'll want to skip this post, but I do need to vent.

I had a nine a.m. appointment, which required me to turn down a chance at some other work today, because it had to be done in-office at that particular time. The appointment was to brainstorm ways to grow my business, and attending were my business partner and a local business leader with investment banking experience. He chose the place, a chain cafe at a particular corner. I arrived on time.

The cafe was not there.

I went to an outlet on the same street, farther down. Asked for other locations...went to all but one...my partner, apparently, went to that one, after doing a similar wandering...but the fellow had already left. She and I sent three-way emails going "did you forget, where were you, sorry about the mixup" etc. He sees no reason we didn't intuit that he was actually at an outlet several blocks away from where he told us to meet him, and no, no apology. Nor any rescheduling, neither.

I went to pick up my UI cheque from the office, only to find the lineup stretching out into the street and angry, flailing people being forcibly removed from the premises. Figured I'd go back tomorrow. Went to get a pork bun from the bakery in Chinatown and found I was four cents short. Swell.

Checked email...the company with the job I really, really wanted got back to me...the application arrived after the deadline (it was mailed three weeks early, for god's sake!) and so I'm out of luck. Got a bounce message from another job I wanted...email inbox is full. Swell. Two bills arrived. I had to cancel lunch with a friend on Friday because a possible client insists on an online meeting at the same time. Wasted an hour researching and applying for jobs that turn out to be volunteer...why don't they just say that instead of faking me out like that? Like I'm gonna go "well hey, who needs food!"

I finally contacted a friend on Messenger, and she calmed me down a bit. Then I decided to give myself a break and surf some fun sites. Stumbled across a post that gave away the ending of the new Harry Potter. Now my life is complete.

Can someone reassure me that these kinds of days last only 24 hours?

[kd5145]

Oh goodie! A vent thread. :)

Yes, ,tomorrow is another day and hope that it will be better.

Well, I had a computer problem a couple days ago and sent my computer to our help desk. The hard drive is a total loss and three and half years of info are gone. :( So, next week starts month end and I have no idea what I am going to do.

In addition our Director is going to another state for a due diligence so I have to figure out how I am going to get everything processed without her there.

One good thing is that I was on our Eastern Division HR call this morning and we talked about having a retreat. So, I am crossing my fingers that I will get to get away for a couple days in September and learn a couple of new things like consulting and team building. :)

[lifesab-andthenyoudie]

I'm in automotive hell this week. We have two cars and a truck. I don't drive the truck because it's an ancient 1970 one-ton pickup and the seat is stuck in one position--where my 6'4" husband sits, not where his 5'2" wife would sit.

I drive an aging Volvo whose air conditioning crapped out a few weeks ago. Money is tight due to other expenses, so I figured we'd swelter it out, using my husband's car when necessary. He's out of town this week (more on that in a bit), so today, with heat indices topping 110 and heatstroke warnings issued left and right, I decided I'd use his car. I was coming down our street around 4PM today when I heard a "pop" and then a sound that was similar to a fan belt or something loose flopping around in the engine. I opened the hood, but nothing was loose. But the battery light came on. I looked under the car and there was a rapidly enlarging puddle of something dripping out from under the car. I didn't know what it was--coolant? So I got back in the car, crossed my fingers and started it. It started but I quickly realized what was leaking. Power steering fluid. I was planning to take my kids to a water theme park on Saturday. It's about an hour away, and we're going with the swim team for the group discount rate. But we were planning on driving up Friday night and staying in a hotel. I was hoping to use my husband's car. So tomorrow, first thing, I have to call the mechanic, hope they can take the car immediately, pray the thing will start and get me over there in one piece and cross my fingers that the repair bill doesn't break the bank.

So, my husband's a contractor and he left town early yesterday morning to fly to the PNW to attend his 30 year high school reunion. We rarely take our vacations in the summer (other than long weekends) because it's his busy time and he really can't afford to be away from his jobs. He's got three pretty large jobs running simultanously (where's that spell check, Damon?) but figured things would go fairly smoothly. Wrong. I've been spending the better part of yesterday and today chasing down building inspectors, begging electricians to come out and fix what got screwed up the other day so the customer can have electricity, etc. I've gotten none of my own work done.

[lifesab-andthenyoudie]

I thought I'd go for a long bike ride in this stupid sweltering heat (I should have just gone to the air conditioned gym..). I just had the clips on the bottom of my bike shoes adjusted the other day because my right foot was rotating off the pedal more than it should have been. Well, this was the first day I'd been clipped into my petals since I got my shoes adjusted. A car cut me off and I got my left foot off the pedal just fine but I could NOT disengage my right foot. At least I didn't fall off, but you can't move out of the way very fast when you have a bicycle attached to your foot.

From now on, I'm going back to doing my own clip adjustments.

[George]

I had these kind of weeks before. Not very fun.

[George]

Forgot to mention yesterday was a crazy day. Went to a korean restaurant which turned out to be absolutely nasty. So while there a big storm came. Got home and the electricity got knocked out by the storm. A few hours later the electricity came back on for like 10 mins than it was blackout again. Very hard to function without electricity.

But today the weather is just great and I'm back online...hehe.

[raincoaster]

Maybe I should stop reading the Nietzche or something.

After a week and a half of obscenely sweltering temperatures, where you get enough exercise just from sweating human juice into your clothes all day long, it's finally a perfect day, with a lovely ocean breeze. Just the kind of day for a rollerblade addict such as myself.

But

I'm sick as a dog. A really, really sick dog. I am getting tuckered out just from posting, fer crying out loud, and barely have the strength to laugh at Gawker. And poof, suddenly I have work to do. If only I didn't feel like the stuff on the bottom of your shoe after a long walk in the part of town your mother warned you about, maybe I could DO that work. Whine, whine.