Monday Morning Crash
Mar. 10th, 2003 07:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisMy coffee pot is set to finish making the coffee at the time I'm ready to walk out the door. I put the pot (a thermos) into a little carry all I have and take it to work with me. Yes, I drink the whole pot.
This morning, I dropped the damn thing. A pot of coffee into the carpet - laced with little glass shards. The lid could have been on a light tighter. But, wow, it didn't take much to shatter that sucker. Great way to start the week.
About a month ago - actually almost exactly a month ago, I called to order a backup thermos carafe. They were out but said they would send as soon as they got some in. This morning I called and got this really nice lady who was appropriately sympathetic to my plight. She found my old order and said that it was shipped last Tuesday so it should actually be here today. And I ordered another - backup.
In my skewed logic, if I have a backup, the chances of breaking something go way down. If I have no back up, I'm just asking for trouble. I don't want to ask. I get plenty without asking.
I had a great dinner last night with Sherry and Lee - always fun. We ate at a nice, kind of upscale Asian place that I'd never been to. Very good food, very good ambiance. Lots of laughs. Lee is on counting duty at the postal service. For a month she has to go in before the carrier and count all the mail and then time the routes. The rural carriers are paid on a rate extrapolated from that month of counting and timing. So she's working 6 days at week from about 3:30 am until about 1 pm. She volunteered for the duty and says it's an interesting change of pace. But, it sure cuts out those late night parties - which they never went to anyway.
This week looks pretty full at work which is fine by me. And my email this morning reveals that one of the most annoying fuckchops in the office is going to be out of town for most of the rest of this month. That's a nice, pleasant little surprise.
This morning, I dropped the damn thing. A pot of coffee into the carpet - laced with little glass shards. The lid could have been on a light tighter. But, wow, it didn't take much to shatter that sucker. Great way to start the week.
About a month ago - actually almost exactly a month ago, I called to order a backup thermos carafe. They were out but said they would send as soon as they got some in. This morning I called and got this really nice lady who was appropriately sympathetic to my plight. She found my old order and said that it was shipped last Tuesday so it should actually be here today. And I ordered another - backup.
In my skewed logic, if I have a backup, the chances of breaking something go way down. If I have no back up, I'm just asking for trouble. I don't want to ask. I get plenty without asking.
I had a great dinner last night with Sherry and Lee - always fun. We ate at a nice, kind of upscale Asian place that I'd never been to. Very good food, very good ambiance. Lots of laughs. Lee is on counting duty at the postal service. For a month she has to go in before the carrier and count all the mail and then time the routes. The rural carriers are paid on a rate extrapolated from that month of counting and timing. So she's working 6 days at week from about 3:30 am until about 1 pm. She volunteered for the duty and says it's an interesting change of pace. But, it sure cuts out those late night parties - which they never went to anyway.
This week looks pretty full at work which is fine by me. And my email this morning reveals that one of the most annoying fuckchops in the office is going to be out of town for most of the rest of this month. That's a nice, pleasant little surprise.
safe
Date: 2003-03-10 08:29 am (UTC)Sometimes I think that prevention measures cause mishaps. Many years ago when I was a canoeing councillor at a summer camp, I used to occasionally rig an outboard motor mount on the canoe with a 2x4 and rope. Once and only once did I tie a line to the motor itself. That was the time that I hit a wave and the outboard bounced off the mount and fell into the lake. It wasn't deep, and I was glad I didn't have to dive for it. Perhaps my knowledge that the safety line was there caused me to be more casual about the mount and the tightness of the screws?
Re: safe
Date: 2003-03-10 08:37 am (UTC)Re: safe
Date: 2003-03-10 10:01 am (UTC)