Not The Best Of Days
Some days you get the bear. Some days the bear gets you. Today was one of the latter.
When I woke up this morning and looked out the window, there was a dead thing floating in the swimming pool. So I spent the time before I had to go to work cleaning instead of in bed with California Girl. The dead thing turned out to be a large rabbit that had fallen in the swimming pool and drowned overnight. Rigor mortis had already started so it was stiff even though it was soaking wet. I fished it out and heaved it in to the vacant lot next door. Then I decided to check the skimmers. As a bonus, there was a drowned field mouse in one of them too. So I heaved it into the vacant lot and emptied out the bugs and leaves. Then I put two gallons of liquid shock (disinfectant) in the pool and turned up the chlorine feeder to max. There was still time to go back to bed but I felt too dirty after handing the dead things. So, I just showered and went to work.
When I got to work, I discovered that there had been a problem with the software release and that they had tried to call me. With the “fun” that I had been having, I neglected to check messages on my cell phone. They did the release, rolled it back, found out the problem was still there, and re-deployed it. If they had reached me, I could have saved them quite a bit of work. Thankfully, the release wasn’t scheduled for the dead of night like usual otherwise everyone would have been very unhappy rather than just annoyed. It was a “beginning of time” issue unrelated to the latest changes that they stumbled upon in their checkout testing; not my problem but something I could have told them in 5-minutes rather than the hours it took them. I’ve got like ten telephones and an answering machine that beeps every 30-seconds in the house so it’s impossible to miss a call/message but no one thought to call my home phone. No one said any thing but I did get some not so friendly looks. So I stayed in my cube and kept a very low profile most of the day.
I work out at lunch time, and often go running. It was bright sunshine and very humid when I left but started getting cool and windy before I reached the turnaround point. I decided to cut my run short and head back but made my decision too late. Halfway back, I got caught in a tremendous thunderstorm. I got soaked. I looked like I jumped in the swimming pool. I probably weighed 10 pounds more than did when I started because of all the water in my clothing. It’s going to take days for my shoes to dry out. And I’m probably going to get an ear infection from all of the rain water.
When I got home, I discovered that California Girl’s car had an extremely flat tire. I put on the temporary spare and checked the tire. It had a concrete nail and a roofing nail in it. (One of the perils of living in a development where they are still building.) The sidewall is damaged too so I’ll need to get a new tire tomorrow. Her tires are big for a passenger car. Big in this case means expensive. They’ll have a new tire in stock; I just won’t feel like paying for it. Quitting time on Friday cannot come soon enough for me!
Thankfully, tomorrow is another day.
Comments
Comment from Rosie
Time July 1, 2005 at 7:41 am
Wow - one of thooose days. I’m sorry. Want to feel a little better? — We had a BIG rain storm last night. Rain water was flooding into the kitchen, pouring from the light fixture. So we’ll get to spend this week-end pulling down the ceiling (think plaster dust.) Could be worst - kitchen is the one room not yet remodeled. So it has really rained on both our parades. : ) But hope you and the family have a good 4th.
Comment from Chickie
Time July 4, 2005 at 10:32 pm
Hey, if you’d save some of that stuff you found floating in the pool, you’d have one helluva stew. 
Comment from Kelly
Time July 1, 2005 at 12:44 am
Me too MCB…meetings all day as work piles up..today I had a VP slap me on the back (not that friendly) and tell me my design archecture was perfect, it sounds amazing, but she doesn’t agree with the premise of the project. She’s going to do all she can to kabosh it…yeah…a few weeks of my life down the drain…
..drove homve..pulled over for speeding..69 in a 55..I had to laugh that I actually clocked at 69…he didn’t find it as amusing as me. but..I got off..written warning. Pays to have two brothers who are police officers..he reocgnized my name. I know it’s not fair..but it helped my day.
Went grocery shopping forgot to close my sunroof..it poured as I was in the store…perfect….leather interior wipes up well..
..didn’t think the day could get much worse..but surprise..P called tonight..late. He hardly ever calls unless there is something bad (at least it seems like that lately). Pretty much hung up really disappointed with each other…and at an impass. Two strong willed people…
..so as you think back on this awful day..know there was someone else out here who joined you in experiencing the same lousiness (is that a word????)
Here’s to a better Friday!!! (raising my glass!)