Crappy morning

[captainspud]

Ever have one of those days where you just wish you hadn't gotten up?

On Friday, when I was driving home from work, I got hit with a piece of gravel, which put a ding in my windshield. I only realized it Saturday morning, so I drove around to glass places to get it fixed, only to discover that they all close at noon on Saturday and don't open at all on Sunday. Annoying. I did manage to show up at one just as it was closing, so I got an appointment for today.

So I woke up today and headed out to handle that. I had the first appointment today so that I wouldn't be too late for work. I get there, I give them my keys, and I go sit down and read Omega Flight. Forty minutes later, it's done, I pay, and I get ready to head out.

"Oh, by the way, your left rear tire is almost completely deflated. And it wasn't when you got here."

Ugh. They aired up my tire and sent me to a place down the street, but when I got there, they were all booked for the morning and couldn't take me. I didn't really want to drive around to a million garages, so I just went home and figured I'd change to my spare and deal with the leak later (I have an SUV with a full-size spare on the back, fortunately).

So I get home, I get the jack out, I kneel down...

KRA-KOOM!

It starts raining and thundering. Greeeeeaaaaat. I jack the car all the way up and take the leaky tire off (it's begun to deflate again between the glass place and my house, so it's a bad leak), take the spare off the back, and go to put it on... but the car's too low. The hell?! It's the jack that came with my car, and it's at full extension, but it's OVER AN INCH TOO SHORT to lift my car up to change a tire!

UGH. My dad's at home, so I steal his jack and figure I'll use it to lift the car, swap mine out with a brick under it, and then re-raise with some extra height. But of course, my jack is on the actual jack point, so the only place to put his is three inches down the body, which isn't reinforced. I get the swap done, but I've got a nice little inch-deep impression in the body of my car down there because the body's not built to support the car like that. Oh, and the tire's completely ruined-- there's a screw in the side, but it's not cleanly through the face-- it's embedded straight in at the edge of the traction surface, and it looks like it's embedded in the wall. I don't think they can patch a "wound" that long.

I finish the swap (I'm now keeping that brick in my car, because the jack is useless without it) and head out for work. And hey, I need gas! Yaaaay! As if ninety bucks for the windshield wasn't enough, I now need to do another eighty of gas. Ugh. I also haven't had time to eat this morning, so I swing over to Micky D's for some grease and bread. Sigh... any morning that starts with McDonald's is going to be a bad morning. :(

While driving to McD's, I realized that I left my sunglasses at the glass place. And then, just to top it all of, there was one last thing... it was so minor, but piled on top of everything else, it just felt excessive. As I was waiting in the drive-through line, there was this bird hopping along beside my car... it was a seagull, and one of its wings was all screwed up. The arm part was okay, but the flap of skin that connects the wing to the body was all torn off, so the wing was hanging low... and you just know that bird's going to starve to death or get hit by a car within a week.

I mean, ordinarily I wouldn't care about it, but seeing that this morning after everything else... I dunno. I just didn't need that.

Sigh.

It's just been a crappy, crappy morning. What a great way to start the week. :(

[zuludelta]

I go sit down and read Omega Flight.

That would have ruined anybody's day. Atypically weak writing by Oeming + un-inked Scott Kolins art = waste of $15

[captainspud]

More great news!

Someone borrowed my external hard drive, which stores all our backed-up data. I just asked for it back, he undocked it, unplugged it, and gave it to me. I plugged in the power, and the USB, while it was on my desk, and then lifted it down to its spot under my desk. While it was midway there, the whole thing siezed up (it's a big spinning disk, so it felt like the disk was suddenly braked, with the whole unit jerking forward the last degree or two of rotation it needed to slow down.

Uh-oh.

Turns out, he didn't flick the power switch off when he unplugged it, so it was RUNNING the moment I plugged it in. That's very, very bad.

The drive now appears to be completely effed. Which would mean the work I've been doing for two months is gone, and can't be recovered.

IT's going to see what they can do to fix the drive. "No promises."

This is just the best day EVER.

[Figure Fan]

Wow..

Spud..

I'm so sorry :(

[The Phantom Eyebrow]

That is one seriously crappy day you're having Spud.  The car is bad enough, although I suppose you have to expect needing to pump money into it every now and then, but the loss of the work on your drive would be terrible.  I hope you have some luck now in recovering it.

[GhostMachine]

Someone PLEASE make sure Spud doesn't have a copy of Falling Down in his dvd collection. We wouldn't want him getting any ideas!

Sorry your day sucks so bad, Spud. If I didn't know better, I would think someone put a curse or hex on ya!

[Uncle Yuan]

Sorry to hear it Spud.  Doubly so since here in Your Large Friendly Neighbor To The South we're having a holiday - so no work (would have saved you part of a day's stress at least . . . ).

And, always guaranteed to cheer anyone up - Monty Python's "Universe Song"!

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And people are stupid, wicked, or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite enouuuuuuuuuuuugh . . .
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour.
It's orbiting at ninety miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
Through an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars,
It's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand lightyears thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand lightyears wide.
We're thirty thousand lightyears from galactic central point,
We go round every two hundred million years.
And our galaxy is only one of millions and billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz.
As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light, you know;
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
Cause there's bugger-all down here on earth!

(mind your liver, now)

[Alaric]

Everyone has days (or weeks, or years...) like that sometimes...

Aren't you glad you have a place to rant?

Good luck on the hard drive problem.

[thalaw2]

You need to take a break and give yourself a mental hug!  Then remember that every cloud has a silver lining .  Let's not forget that all things happen for a reason and that when one door closes two more open.






In all honesty hope your day gets better.

[Sevenforce]

Also remember - silver lining is REALLY strong, so you can strangle people with it too. Then drown them in the moisture from the cloud. :D

Sorry you had a bad day Spud, and hope you get the drive back. Hey, its gotta get better eventually :cool:

[Silver Shocker]

You Superstitious Spud? Sounds like you'd have to break a mirror for that kinda bad luck. Any one of those things could ruin a guy's day, but it sounds like the fate's are out to give you a hard time or something. Things can only go up from there, though, right? Maybe your luck will turn around.

[DetroitBerserker]

First and most importantly:
I'm really sorry about your bad morning, Captain Spud.

Secondly:
This line caught my attention.

"Oh, by the way, your left rear tire is almost completely deflated. And it wasn't when you got here."

Watch out who you take it to.

I'm a naturally paranoid guy and right now an insomniac, so I'm only semi coherent. :wacko:
A friend of mine ran over a nail.
He took the tire off his car.
He took the tire to the local tire place, which I believe was a Belle Tire location.
Belle Tire had it for one day.
He went to go get his tire.
They told him he needed a new tire because there was a slash on the side of the tire.
The slash did not exist the day before.

Just warning you.
Barely coherent now. Time to mingle with Girlfriend's family.
Have Better Days.
The Berserker Commands it.  :D