I don’t think words can describe how fucking irritated I am with my work PC right now. I don’t think it’s possible to run a web browser, email client (Outlook, a memory pig if there ever was one) Max5 and Photoshop all at the same time without the entire thing coming to painful grinding halt. I spend more time waiting for the “End Program” dialog to finish whatever lousy kung-fu it does than I do working. (I seem to remember “End Program” actually doing something in 2000.) The funny thing is that this machine is a replacement “upgrade” from the previous one…and it runs slower.

Other than that, there’s a big hole out across the street where a major water main blew under the sidewalk, and we have a trickle coming through the downstairs pipes; the jackhammers were working until midnight, and then they all left. So there’s no telling when we’ll get water back. (To the City employee who told my wife yesterday that the water running down the street was simply snowmelt: GET BENT. Why is my water ORANGE, you moron?) The lovely and accomodating Sara let us use her shower last night, so we don’t reek, but I can’t do anything with the house until I can shower again.

Meanwhile, I’m in some kind of wacked-out hibernation mode right now- my metabolism has sped up so that I’m constantly hungry, but I need 10 hours of sleep a night to be functional. (the fact that I’m averaging about 7, and that there’s a storm blowing in this afternoon, which makes my sinuses feel like somebody’s been filling them with concrete, does not help.)