Friday
End of the work week. And, even if it wasn’t I think that I would have to make it the last day of my work week. Today was… not pleasant, on the whole. One thing on top of another. When I left work yesterday, I emailed a file home so that I could work on it last night. That made an odd, logical sense. It didn’t show up… until this morning.

::: braincramp :::

That was too late for me to really do anything about it here… so, I went to work early. One benefit (and possibly the only one) was that I could play mp3s as loudly as I wanted without having to worry about irritating/offending anyone else. I worked on the file for about an hour before I had to deal with anyone else. To that point, the day was fine. I finished the file, after a few interruptions, with time to spare. However, it didn’t get reviewed until about :05 before it was needed.
::: braincramp :::

That was not auspicious. I had to drag into my office (and away from her work) to go over one section that needed to correlate to another one. It took us about :45 to figure out the discrepancies. And, I got static for “taking too long” to get it done. Rather than say or do something rather untoward, I stood up, left the room…and then the office area… and the building. I took a brisk and somewhat calming walk. Actually, I was a little stressed out a couple of times during the day… and both items were related to this file. I think that I actually scared at one point. (Sorry about that!) I shall handle that situation after the weekend, when I’ve had time to calm down and (hopefully) discuss the matter calmly and rationally.

…they can afford to move so fucking slow, man, they’ll wait years and years. Give you a whole life, just so you’ll have more to lose when they come and take it away. Patient like a spider. Zen spiders.
-from Neuromancer by William Gibson

After work, my day got significantly better. Imagine that! Had dinner at Guru’s with Jess and then went to Borders; joined us there. We harassed Jonahs, sat around and talked, I did a few figure sketches and bought this:

Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga trade paperback

This was one of the – if not the – best story lines in that title in the early 80s – buying this book was like seeing an old friend after a long time apart. I’ve been a Legion fan since the late 70s; if I remember correctly, it was the first book that I collected regularly. I’ve waxed and waned in my collecting habits, but (along with X-Men) I’ve been pretty good about trying to keep up with the Legion books.

NPR Stories
Morning Edition: The Hipster Handbook

Song of the Day
Darkness Looming Overhead by SnagLoopDog

Stray Toasters

  • Mjolnir II.
  • I listened to a bit of The Salmon of Doubt today. Unfortunately, I kept getting distracted, so I had to stop after too short a while.
  • “You’ll have to excuse me for a moment… I need to find a quiet room in which to practice an ancient Martian meditation technique… It’s called screaming.”
    -J’onn J’onzz (The Martian Manhunter), Justice League International #8

  • Amateur Radio Field Day
  • Got an invitation to play Ultimate tomorrow morning, since the afternoon group seems to have petered out. Unfortunately, I intend to be in the middle of my tour of The Dreaming at that time.
  • National “Do Not Call” Registry
  • Jonahs was humming “Strangers in the Night” while he was working. Now that’s stuck in my head.

Namaste.