My day sucked - but it was funny!
February 16th, 2006 by Bill
As days go, today sucked in rather a large way. Let me explain …
First you need to understand that yesterday – Valentine’s Day, no less – was excellent, even though it’s excellence had nothing to do with it being Valentine’s day. Now, I don’t pretend to understand these things. In the absence of any rational explanation I put the merits (or lack thereof) of the last day or two down to meteorology, the proximity of the full moon (which was a day or two ago) and/or, as Kurt Vonnegut might say, the odd chemicals we have running around the human system.
Whatever the reason … Valentine’s Day, the 14th, was a great day. I was full of pep. Full of strange and giddy energy. It was a day of blissful silliness. Which probably explains why I populated other people’s blogs with self-indulgent comments. Well, so many people seemed grumpy – and I wasn’t!
But then night fell and I eventually went to bed and … oh dear. Everything crapped out.
It was the worst sleep I had had in ages. I recall waking around 3 a.m. following a dream of being half-dead, half-embalmed. Not pleasant. And things went downhill from there. Bottom line … for reasons I don’t understand, I had weird and disturbing dreams all night and when I finally got up I felt I had not slept at all.
Then the new day, today, began … what a schmozzle! I usually work from home except today I couldn’t connect to the network. What the hell was wrong? I ended up (much later in the day) going into the office to resolve the problem …
Blah blah blah … to make a tedious story shorter, the problem was simple. I was a moron. The reason I couldn’t connect to the network was because instead of using my network password to start up the laptop, I had been using the VPN log in … which sounds rather more technical and boring than anyone cares about but, what it boils down to? Thanks to the fact I was burned out from lack of sleep my brain was not working so the key password lodged in my brain to get things going was unavailable. So … I ended up calling the support people and making an ass of myself.
And that was just one of the various asinine things I did today. I won’t bother mentioning the outraged e-mails I sent to co-workers that had to be followed up with other e-mails that boiled down to, “Sorry! Never mind!”
It was just a bad, bad, bad day … and the temperature outside is plummeting, and that’s not helping anything. But there is an upside!
Tomorrow will be a far better day. Trust me - I’ve experience these things. When I have a great day, it’s followed by a disaster … and that’s usually always followed by a much better day. It’s a very strange natural law I do not understand.
And, actually, today was more funny than bad. It really was great comedy. Unfortunately, I was the butt of most of the jokes.
(And yes, I know, I have used this picture before. But it’s fitting for the kind of day I’ve had so I’m using it again.)
at least you maintained your sense of humor.
If you can’t laugh at yourself, Bill, who the hell can you laugh at?
I can understand the bad dream thing. I have horrible night terrors. I feel for ya.
Better today?
Yes, I laugh at myself. I give myself great amusement.
Lushy - Yes, much. But it’s busy and it’s cold!
Sorry you had such a horrible day hon. You have my sympathy, because I have those days too, only I make such a moron out of myself that I usually have to hide out for three or four days after from the people I manage to piss off.
Hope it gets better for ya!!!!!
Heh, great semi-HNT.
I did see this post; I never said anything because I had a similar day & just couldn’t focus enough to comment!