Problems

Problem 1 - i had this "nightmare" last night where my job situation was hammered and people started throwing stones at us. I woke up assured that it was real and wondering how I'd rationalize this to anyone that asked questions. But as it turns out, it was just a regular Friday morning. So that was either a horrifying premonition or I should think about finding a different cold medicine. Nyquil is obviously causing me some trouble.

Problem 2 - my laptop fell victim to my morning incoherence. It sits on a table next to my bed and when falling out of bed this morning to start my day, I ran into the bloody thing and it fell onto the floor. The internal pin (something which with I've had previous problems) that receives power from the AC adapter broke and for the 3rd time this year, I have to send the bugger to HP for repairs. I managed to save all of my pictures and word documents before the battery died but I lost about 15 Gigs of music :( It's all either stored on my ipod or in my cd collection, so it's not like I lost everything completely but goddammit!!! AAAHHHHHH!

Problem 3 - I went to Boss earlier to ask for a day off in October. I figured 2 months notice was good enough. Going in his office was easy enough and after I offered him some candy, it was a jolly atmosphere. We shot the breeze for a minute and then he looked at me with concern. "Is there something you want to talk about? Can I help you with anything? You know I'm here for you." With the exception of when he's freaking out, Boss uses this fatherly tone with me, so I almost felt bad that I didn't come in there prepared to have a heart to heart. In any case, I was pretty careful with my wording, talking about how much I love working for him and how much I treasure the every day experience. After he returned the compliments, I could tell he knew I was up to something. So I asked straight out. "Day off? The last day off you had was for a concussion. Planning on a bone break?" He stared, waiting for an explanation. "You see, sir.. I want to ... partake.. in an activity... that will be funandIregisteredforitalreadyandI'vebeenreallylookingforwardtodoingitfortwoyears?" His facial expression remained unchanged. "If I can't have the day off, I completely understand." I hardly got "understand" out before he said, "That's great. Because you can't go." Dejected, I turned to leave, but Boss then lead me down the primrose path of hope. "You look really sad about me saying no." I nodded and shared that I'd been looking forward to this event for quite some time. "Is this one of your crazy, adrenaline issues?" I didn't want to lie but figured an affirmative answer would ruin everything, so I didn't say anything at all. "Where are you going?" I couldn't silence my way out of this one. I told him about Bridge Day, that this is the first year I've been able to attend, and normally I would ask first and register later but I actually registered in December of last year. [For the uninformed, Bridge Day is this spectacular day on the New River Gorge in West Virginia where the bridge is opened to B.A.S.E. jumpers - this only happens once a year. This year it's on October 15, which is 49 days and 14 hours from now] Boss looked in the air and went into thinking mode. It felt like 5 minutes went by. "Little Flash, you do a fantastic job?" "Thank you sir." "And I don't know what we'd do without you." Hello, Bridge! "... so I'm still not letting you go, okay? If you jump off the bridge and die or break your legs, then what? I won't authorize your hazardous, radical, nutball interests. You save that for 10 years from now when you work somewhere else. Why don't you go climb the fence outside and jump off that." I thanked him for his consideration and while turning to leave his office, my foot caught on the carpet and I fell, spilling my candy and what little was left of my pride.

I'm leaving now to cry. I hope you all have a nice Friday.