My Precious *crash*
I broke my Golem figurine this morning while getting a book for my ailing wife. Figures. Wife-lady has some sort of highly contagious gum infection and she thinks she's passed it on to her cat, so I went over there to pick the cat up this morning and take it to the vet. She can't leave her apartment and I suppose none of her other friends could take care of this for her, so I volunteered. Before I left home I decided I would be nice and take her a book to read, the Fates decided to slap me in the face for my thoughtfulness. Now I'm fully expecting to get some sort of infection from my brief contact with the wife-lady, even though I washed my hands at the vet.
I was a bundle of anxiety last night as I contemplated carrying out my mission of mercy. For one I was worried about wife-lady and her cat, but I also knew I'd have to call in to work this morning and come up with some explanation. I was fully expecting to be an hour or so late. There are few things I hate worse than having to call into work without a good reason. It may be odd, but I can fully lie when I just want to take a sick day for "mental health", but for any other reason I hate not being completely honest. Fortunately, I only ended up being about ten minutes late, so I didn't have to go into any detail about that.
All-in-all this little adventure went well and I feel better for having helped the wife out. And that's nice, because my computer died again last night and I mean completely dead. It appears the power supply has gone out, so it looks like I'll have to rip apart my old fileserver to scavenge a working one. Maybe when I get the tax return I'll put together a little better system, I'm about due for an upgrade. Of course I'm deeply divided as to buying computer stuff or getting an iPod. What should I do???
Oh, and in other news: IM still isn't blocked *snicker*