What Did You Do Today?

I got the kids off to school, grabbed the wifey and stowed the gear in the car. We had breakfast on the road at 8:00 AM, and we were on the slopes at Deer Valley by 9:00 when the lifts opened... had a wonderful bluebird day skiing with my lovely girlfreind (wife) of 19 years..

All in all.. a great day.

Got to work at 8:00am. Had a latte. At 3 bucks a pop, I wondered why I drink that crap. Revised a massive RTU frame because the mechanical contractor screwed up his roof opening locations. Came home, ate lunch. Back to work, spent afternoon revising three roof canopies on another job because the idiot architect can't make up her mind what the F she wants, nor how to make a string of dimensions add up.
Home at 5:15, grilled up some tasty burgers on the barbie.
Put in eyedrops. Drank a glass of "orange death".
Turned on computer. Read about Fulghy's wonderful day on the slopes and felt intense jealousy. Sulked. Wrote this.

Worry not.. I'll be back dealing with dumbasses tomorrow..

Well, I got to miss school for a Knowledge Bowl meet (I doubt many of you know what that is...it's just this thing I do time to time to get out of school). It was cool...my team never takes it very seriously, so we just goof off. Later, I served jury duty for "Teen Court" (where minors serve as laywers and jury for another minor...it's really, not a mock thing). I got to slap 20 hours of community service onto this guy for trespassing onto school property. It was an interesting experience. Oh, and then later I made plans to get with a friend for lunch tomorrow...I'm really really looking forward to that.

Ah, the once a week lunch deal, eh Llowey?

That's all? Twenty hours of community service isn't much. Was he messing about with hoodlum friends or just wandering around shiftily on his own?

Actually he was homeschooled, and had come to the school to view this assembly being held for a group of African drummers. Pretty innocent. But it was when they were asked to leave, that problems started...and the principal, as usual, loves to overreact, and proceded to call the cops.

But yes, like Nisha said, I took my friend out to lunch. It was a lot of fun. We had Mexican, and it was quite good. That's about all that's worth noting about my day.

Work for 15 hours went home had a joint listened some music went to sleep.

you're still awake

I was looking forward.

Today was weird. I had this whole stack of bills to mail, plus a sealed envelope with the details of the family I was supposed to assess. Guess what I did with it?

Yep, put it in the mailbox along with the rest of the bills to be delivered. It didn't even strike my stupid brain to put those in different coat pockets so that I won't mix 'em up. Sometimes, I can be such a CLASS IDIOT I tell you...

So I hung around the mailbox for an hour in far-below-freezing weather with a howling wind, waiting for Mr. mailman to showup so that I might grap the envelope but to no avail. So I had to dash to school and type up a new consent form from memory. Then once I mailed that in my instructors mailbox, I was out on my way when I realised today was Friday and that I had to hand in my journal report on clinicals for the week. Somewhat frustrated, I dashed back to the lab and typed it up.

Then the printer quit working!

Fuming, I made my way around different buildings till I spotted a friend. Went to her room to print stuff out - her roomate and her b/f were kinda... erm... having a private moment there (which explained why my friend was out of her room). It was so embarrasing! Print job done, I dashed that journal off to my professors office.

Then while I was sprinting to the bus-stop to catch the bus, I passed by Michael Hall.... and then remembered - I had to submit a leave note to my supervisor!

ARRRRGH! I skidded to a stop and dashed back into Michael Hall. No surprise, they wouldn't give me a leave note as it was against policy. I KNEW this but my Supervisor had insisted that he needs proof that I was sick last week (maybe next time I'll mail him some phlegm! ). So I signed a consent form authorising release of my records if my Super. were to call up.

I dashed outside in the freezing wind and blowing snow (damned near a blizzard! And I had misplaced my cap so my ears were kinda freezing too!) and caught the bus just as it was leaving.

In the bus, I realised that I needed to hand in my resume on Monday for class after having career planning check it out. I didn't ahve the resume with me, but I had it in my mailbox. So, as soon as I got off - I dashed over to my jobsite and wrote up my time sheets. Then I printed out my resume (didn't have to wait in line - perqs of working as a Consultant ) and dashed over to Career Planning. I was waiting around for an hour before someone popped their head in and asked what I was doing here .... and then it hit my mind - they were remodelling and the office had shifted to a temporary location and I had completely forgotten!

Feeling thoroughly disgusted and frustrated with my absent mind this morning, I slouched off to the new location and got the job done in 5 minutes flat.

I was feeling so dejected with my silly brain that I literally slouched all the way home - the wind and the cold didn't help much.

Now I'm sitting warm and cozy in my chair .. debating if I ought to take the frustration off on my punching bag or on my computer games....

I think I'll take the punching bag!

Si, you're kind of like the 3 stooges combined in one package.

I frittered away this entire week. Accomplished absolutely nothing whatsoever.

Thank ye!

Honestly, I really don't know where my brain was today

Absolutely NO organisation today what-so-ever. I'm kinda surprised I got all my stuff done!

That's how I have felt all week. It's the winter, I'm sure of it!