Well, let's get caught up shall we?  Last weekend, we here in Iowa got nailed
by a massive ice storm.  Many parts of Iowa lost power overnight, and some
places still even today still haven't gotten power restored.  I only lost
power for a minute, enough to screw up all of my clocks.  My old roomie didn't
have power for almost a day.  In fact, he came over to my place and another
friend's place to hang out and keep warm.  Need that electricity to power the
furnace igniters and blower.  I made it to church, and just as service was
ending, the power went out thus ending mass early.  
Then this week on Wed. afternoon, I found out that I had to travel to St.
Louis on Thur. to support some training for our customers.  I got stuck on a
7:30 am flight, which meant I had to be up at 5 am.  Funny thing, I forget to
take off my watch, and it doesn't set of the metal detector.  Yet I still have
to take my shoes off?  Okay, I feel safe.  Anyways, we get in the air, and
then have to go into a holding patter for 45 min. due to storms in St. Louis
which shut down the air port.  I find out later, that the same storms create a
near blizzard in Iowa the next day.  I finally land an hour behind schedule,
get lost on the way to the customer, finally get there, and manage to back the
rental car into a barrier.  So now, I have a busted quarterpanel. *sigh* 
Fortunately, the work with the customer goes relatively smoothly in the next
two days.  

The hotel is average.  I can't believe I get jacked 100+ bucks a night for a
room though.  The customers want me to leave my laptop behind so they can use
my engineering tools.  I laugh at them.  So, by 4 pm, I'm heading out to turn
in my rental car.  I have to fill out an accident report.  Who knows when I'll
hear back.  Forunately, my workplace forces us to take the insurance, so I'm
hoping I won't have to pay too much.  By 4:45 I'm in the airport, waiting for
my 7pm flight.  Of course, we don't get off the ground until almost 8:30 due
to planes and crew coming in late due to backedup airports around the Midwest.
 I finally drag home to bed around 10pm.  Oh yeah, I leave Iowa, single digit
wind chills, land in St. Louis to almost 60 degree weather.  I nearly die of
heat stroke, because I'm wearing my winter gear.  I arrive back to Iowa, to
scrap off the ice and snow from my truck in single degree wind chill weather
again.  *sigh*  

Then this morning, my crappy luck continues, I go downstairs to the laundry
room and find the window on the floor.  Somehow, the window came off of its
brackets and busted out the glass.  So, I had to make a run to the Home Depot
to get some plexi-glass since they don't sell windows in that size.  Spent a
couple hours getting that cut plexi-glass cut to fit, and then using the
Handyman's Secret Weapon, duct tape, to seal off the leaks around the frame. 
Well, at least from the outside you can't see how redneck this looks.

I'm afraid to find out what's next in store for me.  Oh yeah, forgot to
mention that I'm stuck on the dreaded project with no budget and tons of
problems.  Heaven help me.  Wonder if it is time to go to a new department. 
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