Uh, don’t bother reading this … just skip to the last paragraph.

Yesterday started out in panic mode and then turned out to be a REALLY GOOD DAY. Or at least I had thought that right up until 11PM. What really happened was that a lot of little things added up to make a really good day and then I got a dumb inopportune memo at eleven o’clock that screwed it all up.

I started the day in panic mode because I came into the office with a show-stopping bug in my code and an impending deadline that was fourteen hours away. It looked like it was going to be one of those pound-your-head-against-the-wall scenarios until I found a fix. Surprisingly enough it turned out to be a dumb mistake on my part and really cheered me up when I could see the light at the end of my programming tunnel. I still had at least ten hours of work ahead of me, but it was reassuring to be able to accurately quantify the rest of the programming effort. In fact, after I found the bug I was so damn happy that I almost posted ELO - Mr Blue Sky on my website. It really felt like a beautiful new day.

Sun is shinin’ in the sky,
There ain’t a cloud in sight
It’s stopped rainin’
Everybody’s in a play
And don’t you know
It’s a beautiful new day.

I don’t really mind programming for ten hours straight, but it is nice to have some mental companions while doing it. Which is exactly why I had a good day yesterday. First of all, I had a really funny Howard (NSFW) to listen to which helps immensely. What other job can you do while laughing so hard you almost pee your pants? Yep, that’s mine :)

I also got another unexpected Diet Green Tea which made me happy.* I don’t know what the soda guy’s problem is but we seem to end up in the same situation every Tuesday. I think he’s purposely putting the diet tea behind the regular stuff.

* I just had this dreadful self-revelation about how I’ve resisted our corporate motivational FISH! program for so long and am now finding myself actually buying into it. (One of the FISH! Principles in the FISH! FILOSOPHY is to “make their day.”)

So with my Howard, Diet Lipton Green Tea, and programming momentum, things were really starting to look up. In retrospect it was probably because I was focused on something other than my usual obsessions, but it was good nonetheless. Then I got an email from Joe Purdy. Apparently he’s playing a show in London and I’ve actually been thinking of going to London lately to meet up with an old friend. Unfortunately the show is tomorrow and I don’t think I’m going to make it, but the good part was that I discovered that his website has all his albums in a fancy schmancy Flash player. So that made the rest of my day cause I had a whole lot of Joe Purdy to listen to.

I left the office around 10:30 and was really looking forward to sitting on the couch and doing nothing. To my dismay there was a memo slid under my door that informed me that someone would be coming by tomorrow to install a water meter on my hot water heater. This water heater is located in my closet and I’ve literally been hoarding crap in my closet for the past year. After reading the memo I just stared at my bedroom closet and cursed for a good five minutes. Three hours and five full trash bags later I finally had a clean bedroom and closet. It sucked hard, but it had to get done sometime. So overall I guess the day was ok.

Right now I’m considering not posting this cause even the self-absorbed egomaniac in me doesn’t find even a modicum of interest in my reiteration of what happened yesterday. I really could have put more effort into it. Oh well, at least you got ELO out of it.