It's only 9:05 in the morning and it's already shaping up to be a bad day. First thing that happens is the toilet stops working. I fix the chain that has come off the flush handle (those are my technical terms) and luckily the toilet empties its contents on the next flush. That's a load off my mind (pardon the pun)!
Now the drive to work gets a little dicey. I'm the first vehicle stopped on a red and watch the traffic exiting the highway off-ramp onto the street I'm on. A truck with a load of wood, piled very high on its extended flat-bed, is coming off the ramp a bit too quickly and it's flat-bed starts to teeter to the right. I'm looking at it thinking this dude is in trouble. He finishes making the left and the load spills onto the shoulder but the flat-bed bounces and jack-knifes so that it has blocked both lanes. The driver comes out, assesses the situation, and goes back into the cab of the truck, as cool as a cucumber. Meanwhile, cars are squeaking past this disaster on the right shoulder. I finally get through, 10 minutes later and get to work.
Feeling safe in my office, I start to check my email using Outlook. I get into the Calendar section and, for reasons beyond my control, start to adjust the Task settings. I'm not sure what I did but the tasks are now missing check boxes that were once there and there are columns within columns...it's a mess. After 15 minutes of trying to fix this blasted page, I leave my office in disgust and get some water at the office kitchen. I return to the scene of the crime and try one more thing. It works! Again, not sure what I did but I stopped making adjustments after that.
What does the rest of the day have in store for me?
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