My day sucked - but it was funny!

As days go, today sucked in rather a large way. Let me explain …

First you need to understand that yesterday – Valentine’s Day, no less – was excellent, even though it’s excellence had nothing to do with it being Valentine’s day. Now, I don’t pretend to understand these things. In the absence of any rational explanation I put the merits (or lack thereof) of the last day or two down to meteorology, the proximity of the full moon (which was a day or two ago) and/or, as Kurt Vonnegut might say, the odd chemicals we have running around the human system.

Whatever the reason … Valentine’s Day, the 14th, was a great day. I was full of pep. Full of strange and giddy energy. It was a day of blissful silliness. Which probably explains why I populated other people’s blogs with self-indulgent comments. Well, so many people seemed grumpy – and I wasn’t!

But then night fell and I eventually went to bed and … oh dear. Everything crapped out.

It was the worst sleep I had had in ages. I recall waking around 3 a.m. following a dream of being half-dead, half-embalmed. Not pleasant. And things went downhill from there. Bottom line … for reasons I don’t understand, I had weird and disturbing dreams all night and when I finally got up I felt I had not slept at all.

Then the new day, today, began … what a schmozzle! I usually work from home except today I couldn’t connect to the network. What the hell was wrong? I ended up (much later in the day) going into the office to resolve the problem …

Blah blah blah … to make a tedious story shorter, the problem was simple. I was a moron. The reason I couldn’t connect to the network was because instead of using my network password to start up the laptop, I had been using the VPN log in … which sounds rather more technical and boring than anyone cares about but, what it boils down to? Thanks to the fact I was burned out from lack of sleep my brain was not working so the key password lodged in my brain to get things going was unavailable. So … I ended up calling the support people and making an ass of myself.

And that was just one of the various asinine things I did today. I won’t bother mentioning the outraged e-mails I sent to co-workers that had to be followed up with other e-mails that boiled down to, “Sorry! Never mind!”

It was just a bad, bad, bad day … and the temperature outside is plummeting, and that’s not helping anything. But there is an upside!

Tomorrow will be a far better day. Trust me - I’ve experience these things. When I have a great day, it’s followed by a disaster … and that’s usually always followed by a much better day. It’s a very strange natural law I do not understand.

And, actually, today was more funny than bad. It really was great comedy. Unfortunately, I was the butt of most of the jokes.

(And yes, I know, I have used this picture before. But it's fitting for the kind of day I've had so I'm using it again.)