Wednesday

It's just one of those days where everything has to go wrong at the same time. You can go ahead and skip this post, I'm just going to bitch for a bit. It all started with water seeping into the holes of my shoes. Figured it was going to be a miserable day, but I didn't expect to get bombarded by things I have to fix. The moment I walk into work I find that my experiment isn't calibrating like it should. Easy enough fix, I thought. 30 minutes later and its up and running as it should. Within the 1.5 hours I hadn't looked at my email, I get one from France with the "URGENT PROBLEM" of getting null data out of two of our drifters. 3 phone calls later after fixing some faulty code and reviewing current and past data, it seems likely that the way we sealed the drifters might have disconnected some things. This would suck immensely. We'll see what happened with the other 5 drifters. Sometime during this fiasco I feel the very distinct sensation of an infection landing in my sinus cavity. Looks like the buggers are ready to fight for a piece of my sanity. Meanwhile, I get an email from the group that owns the calibration system that we're borrowing for our experiment saying that they're returning on Monday and need the system to test their devices. Wonderful. They could have let us know just a little sooner. It didn't help that the machine was broken for two weeks. Tack on the fact that I still need to settle billing with the company that fixed it. Sigh... I think that gray hair is going to pop up a little earlier than my genetic predisposition might suggest it should. Lastly I find the laptop that was supposed to get delivered to me today actually got delivered to my boss, who just so happens to be in South Korea, so I had to make an angry phone call to lenovo and get them to rectify their mistake, AGAIN. This all happened in a matter of 3 hours... how shitty is that? I'm not really looking forward to what the rest of today is going to entail, if its going to continue being bad news. There are a few other minor issues, but its no big deal...

heh... and I just left this post up in the Asayake journal for a good 10 minutes before I realized... wonderful...