Fee, fi, fo, fired

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Today has not merely been fired, it is well on its way to being flayed alive and strung up as a warning to other days not to vex me.

No word on Zim yet; unspecified electrical issues, dead battery, whatever - I've left voice mail for the service manager to call me back with an ETA, diagnosis, and estimate (if need be). Fortunately, I could drop K off at her job and use her car for the commute.

... to arrive at work to discover that my company ID is, you guessed it, in my car. Yeah, great.

Further fuckery in the form of several user accounts getting fucked up by the guys in NetOps over the weekend, who had neglected to tell us that anyone's password might be reset (including that of one of the secondary accounts we use in my dep't to do this, that, and the other). That was fun to walk into. Hello, queue.

Final weigh-in for the company weightloss challenge. I'm up five pounds since Saturday morning (hooray, stress!), but down 10 lbs overall in ten weeks. Call it a mixed victory.

Good discussion of exercise and fitness, courtesy of a friend of thewronghands: http://rezendi.livejournal.com/110807.html

Hit TBBC after the hockey game w/ theonebob. Apparently, the wimmenz left us a love note. Also, Rae, one of the new waitresses, could be thewronghands' long-lost sister, in terms of both attitude and appearance (imo).

So, yesterday, I basically did nothing, and it was vaguely dissatisfying. Then I fell asleep at 8pm. Apparently, being serially and chronically annoyed and stressed out made bed non-negotiable. Still trying not to catch the bacterial sinus infection that felled K.

Now, I'm desperately downloading my Trans-Siberian Orchestra MP3's from mighty_man's server to drown out the syrupy holiday schmaltz one of my coworkers insists on playing.

No anti-holiday ranting here; as someone who isn't arguably Christian, I don't get a whole lot of traction from the notion of singing Happy Birthday to Jebus, that's the extent of it. I just have a strong preference for instrumental versions of holiday music.

Beethoven's Ninth (at about ninety decibels) seems like a good idea at the moment, actually.

Comments

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

UGH! Such a lovely day you've had! On the weight-loss front, shoot, at least you've got two-steps forward, and only one step back. I usually end up with the reverse. ;-)

I got in today to find my boss is out sick. This is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, I can concentrate on my actual job. On the other hand, I have a feeling those projects he asked me to get all ready to sit down and discuss (cuz they're *funded* now - and sitting in files on my desk) are going to pop up when I least expect them.

Ah, well, one more to get into the hopper today.

[ivy]

Sorry about your sucky day; I sympathize. You can borrow my axe if you want to.

Yay for long-lost sisters, I think. (My actual sister is in Miami, and until fairly recently was in fact a waitress, but we don't look very alike at all -- she's about 5', tanned, blonde, and busty. And, um, not named Rae.)

Beethoven is just about always good. [grin] Carol of the Bells and Coventry Carol are my favorites, but I'm going to sing Handel's Messiah in a week or so. Yay choral music, even for us heathen folk.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I willing admit a penchant for liking women built to the general specifications you outlined your sis exhibits. Heh. But, yes; the entertaining admission on her part that she's anti-online-gaming because her ex-husband left her for someone he met in-game (boo, EQ!) caught her by surprise. Hooray, bonding.

I like the Attrition version of CotB, personally. I'm interspersing some various techno remixen among the vaguely conventional versions. However, Celine Dionne is currently warbling. Time to turn up the 1812 overture.

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Can you position the cannon at the end to obliterate Celine Dionne's entire catalog while you're at it? If you can take out Whitney Houston's, too, I'll be eternally grateful. (Can't *stand* the wailers. *shudder*)

[ivy]

While I think you are a fine and lovely person, I must admit to a bit of AAAAAH etcet AND MY SISTER AAAAAAH. [grin]

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I think aishlynn would have serious frownings for me if I were to cast admiring ogles in your sister's direction, too.

Besides, I wouldn't use one of the toys you bought on her, dear. ;-)

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

Heh, etcet and I did Handel's Messiah some time back. Damn we looked good in tuxen.

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

You can give this Monday an extra bullet 'tween the eyes for me, TYVM.

Today is a fecker, and deserves to die.

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

Heya tons of fun! *snicker*

BTW, do you have Wizards of Winter by Trans-Siberian?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Only a ripped mp3. I gave the album to K's parents for xms last year.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

which means "It's on your server, in the Miscellaneous folder."