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Feb. 6th, 2015 11:00 amCommuting this week has made me extremely grumpy. Half of the 65 buses seem to have been sent elsewhere, so this week there's been one every half an hour for both AM and PM. And then it takes 15 minutes longer than usual to get to or from work, so it's been taking an extra 45 minutes each way, and it's too damn cold to stand there waiting for one. And then the bus is crammed to the gills, and the driver is screaming for everybody to move back, and you're already sharing the same square foot of space with two or three other people, and the people who can't fit on the bus get angry because they're left standing in the cold for who knows how much longer, and repeat at every stop. Ankle be damned, I've got to start walking home again. At least the ankle is getting better enough to be happy (sort of) with just the regular brace instead of the air cast.
That said, however, if it really does start snowing on Sunday night and doesn't stop until Tuesday, I don't think I'm going to work on Monday at all.
So, what's for better news? I now know when I have to be back from Australia, so I can start seriously looking at when I want to go and how much I want to do when I get there. Right now, the idea of just lying on a beach somewhere along the Great Barrier Reef for two weeks sounds like a lovely idea.
Also better news: as of early this week, I can start cheerfully ignoring all the increasingly urgent tax prep commercials, because the forms are submitted and the refunds are here. I'm allowing myself to spend some refund this year (hence the noise-canceling headphones, which are here too), and I think a new iPod might be on the list.
Confusing news: the supposedly dead USB port in my laptop isn't dead; it just doesn't like my printer cable. The other USB port likes the printer cable just fine, and the supposedly dead one likes my external hard drive just fine. I am unable to explain, unless there's cat hair involved somehow (which would not surprise me, should that be the case).
That said, however, if it really does start snowing on Sunday night and doesn't stop until Tuesday, I don't think I'm going to work on Monday at all.
So, what's for better news? I now know when I have to be back from Australia, so I can start seriously looking at when I want to go and how much I want to do when I get there. Right now, the idea of just lying on a beach somewhere along the Great Barrier Reef for two weeks sounds like a lovely idea.
Also better news: as of early this week, I can start cheerfully ignoring all the increasingly urgent tax prep commercials, because the forms are submitted and the refunds are here. I'm allowing myself to spend some refund this year (hence the noise-canceling headphones, which are here too), and I think a new iPod might be on the list.
Confusing news: the supposedly dead USB port in my laptop isn't dead; it just doesn't like my printer cable. The other USB port likes the printer cable just fine, and the supposedly dead one likes my external hard drive just fine. I am unable to explain, unless there's cat hair involved somehow (which would not surprise me, should that be the case).
