Current clothes: A bathrobe. I just got out of the shower. Once I'm finished posting this, I'm going to go and put on... I dunno. Jeans and a t-shirt, like usual.
Current mood: Not bad. A little slow-moving, in that heavy, slept-too-much kind of way. Which I've been doing a lot, lately. Maybe it's the summer weather. Sometimes my body just seems to decide it wants to estivate. Not that I'm complaining (or at least not much). Too much sleep is better than too little, especially when I'm on night shifts.
Current music: Nothing, really.
Current annoyance: The company that's going to redo my driveway has been taking a while to figure out exactly when they're going to be able to schedule the work. They just got back to me with "sometime in early July, exact date TBA." I hope they don't end up wanting to do it the week I'm on nights. Or that they'll at least let me know soon enough that I can arrange for someone to cover for me. I really don't want to work all night and come home to the sound of jackhammers outside my window.
Current thing: I guess I have a couple of current things, other than sleep. I've started re-reading some of Pratchett's Discworld books, in between all the other books I have to read. Starting with the Death novels, because Death is awesome. The character, that is, of course, not the phenomenon. I'm also back on a little bit of a making-household-improvements kick. I've finally replaced a bunch of window screens that were shredded nearly to uselessness by time and cats, for example. Which is good, even if I am a bit annoyed with myself for accidentally ordering the wrong color frames.
Current desktop picture: It's still the same Doctor Who picture I've had for ages now. I should probably stop pretending to myself I have any desire to change it.
Current book: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold. Which is pleasant enough, I guess, but kind of dull. Never thought I'd say that about this particular series.
Current song in head: Billy Joel's "For the Longest Time," ever since a few days ago, when I stumbled across this parody on the subject of entropy.
Current refreshment: Nothing. But I'm thirsty. And maybe a little hungry.
Current DVD in player: I just finished season 4 of The Wire. Which was amazing.
Current happy thing: Looking at my work schedule for tonight, it looks like, unless something goes horribly wrong (which is always possible), it should be a nice, quiet night. I am very much in favor of nice, quiet nights.
Current thought: Between the window screens and the driveway, my next household improvement project is going to have to be shopping for mattresses. Since it finally occurred to me that part of the reason why I wake up with an achy back far too often probably has to do with the fact that my mattress is 16 years old and saggy. This, I am not looking forward to.
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Speaking as an employee of a contractor, this is a natural phenomenon. Despite estimating how long a project will take and placing it into the schedule, something could go wrong on a preceding job, or maybe there will be a typical desert monsoon, and your project then gets delayed.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually a bit worried that the weather will cause problems. I was kind of hoping to get this taken care of before the rainy season set in, but it didn't quite work out that way.
DeleteAlthough I think part of the issue is that they company is in Albuquerque, and they're doing some other work in Socorro and wanted to coordinate things so they could do both at the same time. Which, fair enough. I'm not actually annoyed at them for not being able to be more specific yet (although maybe just a little bit for taking this long to give me even a vague time range). More annoyed, really, at the way my work schedule always makes things like this more difficult. That, and I just hate uncertainty.