friday random ten – “too many feels” edition
Yeah, quiet on all fronts the last week or so, save one or two harried tweets and a handful of desperate conversations. Sorry ’bout that.
The biggest hassle is a work thing. Part of my job is managing some exceptionally technical tasks that normally go beyond someone in my job series, given to me without much in the way of direction or assistance, which I’ve handled reasonably well thus far thanks to some semi-related past experience. However, some bad things happened last Thursday that were theoretically associated with some system changes I made. Since then, I’ve been entrenched nearly non-stop trying to solve the problem and occasionally working to not get thrown under a bus. Thankfully, the problem’s now been resolved, even if the logic it got sold on by the back-end guys is a little dodgy – at least my users are happy.
All I seem to have to show for it is several days worth of elevated blood pressure, a weekend that wasn’t a weekend, several near-breakdowns, and a good-natured nickname that’s taking the organization by storm across several states*. I suspect that forevermore, I’ll be known as “Clusterchuck”, which I guess is okay – go big or go home, right?
Add to that the usual tolls of my current commuting situation, the fact that we’re in the home stretch leading up to opening night of the school play (and all the attendant parent volunteer involvement), this whole sequestration thing hanging over the country which will, at this point, likely mean a few extra days off and a roughly 20% salary reduction over the next few months, and the fact that I was notified on Monday that I got identity-thefted to the tune of about $4000 out of my checking account last weekend (luckily, I got out in front of that quickly and have the money back (thanks, fraud department!), but it’s still a stressor I didn’t need.
So, I’m a little overwhelmed by events. I’m hoping I can find a few hours this weekend to get better. In the meantime, here are some tunes off my mp3 player. I suspect #2 would be honored to find itself in the company of #1, if I know them at all.
- “Song for a Future Generation” – the B-52s
- “Perhaps a Dream” – The Blibbering Humdingers
- “Going Through The Motions (live)” – Aimee Mann
- “You Really Got a Hold On Me” – She & Him
- “These Wishes” – The Clarks
- “Head Over Heels” – The Go-Gos
- “No One Knows I’m Gone” – Scarlett Johannsen
- “L.T. Johnny” – Big Back Forty
- “Running Free (live)” – Iron Maiden
- “I Found Space” – Miracles of Modern Science
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* – I’ve also become a verb, as in “oh, you really chucked that up“. Again, I stress that this is all good-natured among my co-workers; it’s a badge of honor.
