It’s Friday, and it’s long overdue. Sleep has still been fitful all week thanks to all kinds of stressful crap, but you know, I’m dealing. For all the crap being thrown my way, I’m mostly dealing with it to the point where I don’t always *look* like I’m on the edge of cracking to those on the outside. I take victories where I can find them.

The biggest events in my life this week has been having to “speak bitch” entirely too often to get professional people who really ought to know better to do their damned jobs, and finding out that in a little over a week, I have to go to Oklahoma City for a conference, which might be neat, other than the last minute nature of the trip, the fact that I’m going to be stranded in a convention hotel without my own transportation, and per diem in OKC is pretty pitiful, especially when it’s further reduced because of “provided meals”, so I won’t even make any money on the trip. Yeah.

Of course, I’m also not thrilled that I’ll be spending time in the place where this idiocy went down this week. Of course, I work about three miles from where this completely different idiocy happened the other day. I can’t win for losing in the racist geographic proximity olympics.

Huh.

Weekend is totally booked as well. Probably too booked, but it is what it is. Maybe we’ll find some time to celebrate tomorrow’s anniversary of seventeen years of wedded bliss. I would love to get some date time in, even if it’s just dinner and Ant-Man. I hope we can make it happen.

Anyway, here’s some tunes. Pandora, because I don’t have my MP3 player on me. Pandora never used to have this many ads. And apparently I need to rejigger my algorithms, because this mix is not working for me at all:

1. It’s My Life (live) – Bon Jovi
2. Tighten Up – The Black Keys
3. Alone – Falling in Reverse
4. Clint Eastwood (live) – Gorillaz
5. Primadonna – Marina and the Diamonds
6. Sigh No More – Mumfort and Sons
7. Dirty Paws – Of Monsters and Men
8. Train in Vain – The Clash
9. Dust in the Wind – Kansas
10. Shoot to Thrill – AC/DC

So, sorry for bringing you all down…I’m Eyoreing a bit today. Hope I can get past it.