Juice Thieves

I went to the fridge this morning at work to put my lunch away, when I glanced at the inside of the door, and what did I see? Three cans of juice.

No big deal, until you consider there were four there yesterday morning.

But wait, Derk - you ate lunch at work yesterday!!!

True, but we had a staff meeting at lunch, so there was free pizza and pop. So no, I am not being forgetful again. Somebody took my drink.

I will get to the bottom of this.

And if I don't, I have labelled my drinks.

I should have done that with my alcohol when Tim moved in. :)

A downer sort of day

So I haven't posted in a while - seems to be the norm around here. Anyways...

I'm a little down today. Things didn't go great at a meeting today, and I started feeling a little overwhelmed at work. Lots of things going on, not a lot of time. But right now, I am going to let that stuff go and relax a bit.

In other news, the Canadian men's hockey team got booted in the quarter finals today vs. Russia. I can't say I'm surprised - they played terribly. This team was selected on past merit, and the players who attended were not the best that this country has to offer. However, the part that cost them was their inability to adapt to what other teams tried to do. That, and they couldn't score. When you get shut out 2-0 in three of your last four games, you don't really deserve to keep playing.

Lots of medals today, though. Let's hear it for our women, who brought home two golds and two silvers today in speedskating and cross-country skiing!!!

Sometimes I really HATE my f***ing job

So I had to come into work today (Sunday) to finish up a report. I didn't figure it would take that long. Unfortunately, I have been here since 1130 am and it is now 10pm. We are just finishing up. On a normal day, it wouldn't be so bad. Even a normal weekend.

Problem is, today was our (Shea and Me) 2 year anniversary. I expected to be back for dinner, and I even got a call from her asking me to wear something nice when I got home. Unfortunately, that didn't happen, and she was sad and I was furious. I nearly broke a few things in my office and I cursed aloud frequently. This has been one of the few times when I have questioned the wisdom of consulting.

Fortunately, my mood improved as the task neared completion. However, I don't anticipate that I will forget this night any time soon.

Interruptions

Nothing can screw up a good roll of work like interruptions. This morning was great. Nobody was around to ask questions, the phone didn't ring - I mowed through my work like the proverbial hot knife through butter.

Enter afternoon.

People came back in from the field and asked question after question after question. When I was finished answering questions, the phone rang. More questions. More phone calls. GAHHHHH. The report I wanted to start working on at 3pm isn't getting looked at until 430.

Maybe things will quiet down after 5. I doubt it. The questions won't end until probably around 6.

Is there EVER going to be a winter?

There is water everywhere. Another god-knows-how-many mm of rain has fallen in the steady stream of weather usually reserved for November or April. But it's February!!! I have never seen such a warm winter in my life. It has been above freezing since we left for B'dos in mid-December (which was chillier than usual).

I know this has been a repeated rant, but for a boy who grew up with several feet of snow on the ground all winter long, this is getting ridiculous. Suddenly buying a house and settling down in South River doesn't seem like such a bad idea. It has been warm there too, but at least you can't see around the snow banks until you are into an intersection.

No dreams to speak of last night. At least none that I remember. ;)

I'll let you know if the skunk lady returns.

Life is a miracle

So I was sitting on the bus in my usual morning stupor this morning as we came around the bend towards Richmond Hill Centre, when suddenly, the morning sun, just peeking over the horizon, caught my eye. I looked at it for as long as I dared and suddenly thought about how special and amazing life really is. On a rock floating in the void careening around a ball of fire close enough to keep us warm, but far enough to keep us from getting burned to a crisp.

And I looked at the hydro towers and automobiles and buildings in the urban jungle and marveled at how this all came to be considering we developed from ponds of goo billions of years ago.

I was pretty amazed at having such thoughts on a normal morning in the city. Maybe there's still hope for me. ;)

Next time: my dreams about a skunk that turned into a woman and sprayed some guy. On second thought, we can skip that, since there isn't much more to it than that.

Suddenly February

Another month rolls past in the new year of 2006. Seems like it was just yesterday I was ringing in the new year, and just the day before that I was in Barbados living it up.

Now I'm chained to my desk working on report after report. Funny how life is sometimes.

Fearless prediction: we will have a big snowstorm before Feb. 17. I know this because I will be in the field Feb. 10 - 17 or some permutation thereof. And of course, it would be nice to have some snow instead of having to look at dead grass all winter long. I'm starting to understand how the people on the west coast feel. Snow isn't as depressing as rain, especially when everything is already dead.