Mondays seem to be a universal condition
Category: Kitchen Sink...
Posted Monday, May 15, 2006 at 05:45 PM [GMT-6]

Julie's Monday didn't get off to a great start; I hope it got better. But I can relate to her plight. I would have posted an "it's Monday and I'm doomed" post, too, if I'd had the energy. Here's how mine started out:

• I stumbled into the kitchen at the usual time (5:30 a.m.) to find that the coffeemaker had undertaken the installation of a new "water feature" in the kitchen, consisting of two limpid caffeinated pools interconnected by a waterfall, with the lower level pool draining into a series of canals (aka the seams between the floor tiles).


• Our walk got cut short this morning by drizzle...not enough to do any good whatsoever in terms of water supply, just enough to annoy Abbye.


• A client dropped off a disk with some website updates, said disk being one of those CD-RWs from Hell that had an adverse reaction to a sunspot in another galaxy and in a fit of pique refused to give up its data. I tried five CD readers on four different computers before admitting defeat. Unfortunately, said client doesn't live here (the disk was couriered in [that sounds so Continental, doesn't it?]), so we'll have to wait for a new disk.


• The weather conditions made a bike ride inadvisable, and I didn't feel up to a run on the treadmill (one advantage I have over Julie), so I settled for putting the bike on the wind trainer and watching a really forgettable DVD during a painfully boring workout. [I admit that this may or may not have anything to do with Monday, but it was just par for the course, IYKWIM.]

OTOH, I did manage to wring a cup of coffee out of the kitchen rug, Abbye got out long enough to take care of some Important Business, I still have clients who occasionally give me money, and I have sufficient leisure time to engage in exercise for its own sake.

But, it still felt like Monday all day long.