i quote the pixies' most famous song title

my mind is way out in the water. today was absurd.

aside from the obvious aforementioned distraction, today was rough from a work point of view because our systems went down and mine just didn't want to come back up. i *did* reset it, that didn't help, so we tried all sorts of other things until five minutes before home-time, when someone suggested resetting it again.

of course that worked :/

so that was a waste, i took the shuttle home and went straight to survey my very own personal warzone. as luck would have it, the plumber had just left minutes before, and he came back to show me what a sterling job he'd done.

and he really did! and the paint-job so far is quite nice.

now if only it wasn't such a mess :P

i went shopping, found a perfect gift for another birthday coming up, a re-bought the neverending story because my previous TL refuses to part with it ^_^

after a quick snack, i hurried off to my first building meeting participating as an owner. it was long, but enlightening: it looks like we have some very weird issues. we'll see how things pan out, but for the moment my biggest indirect problem is the asbestos.

i didn't recognize my flatmate's girlfriend in the elevator. and even when she told me who she was, i stood there like an idiot waiting for her to tell me where she was going. i'm laughing as i type this, but i'm really not focused.

oh, yes. lake. something's going on, i either can't or don't want to get a handle on it. i don't think it's something that's going to go away if i ignore it.