anger mis-management

i got some good work done tonight. i'm extremely pleased with myself. some of it got done in spite of some serious irritation: while in the middle of doing some tweaking for debugging, seriously into my train of thoughts, spot finished what must have been a very unpleasant phone call.

he screamed out in frustration (it appears), and i screamed back at him to shut up and let me concentrate. to which he began on a series of comments which did nothing to help me get back into what i was doing, each comment causing me to shout at him to shut it, which threw me further off track.

in the end, what i was doing took longer than it needed to, and i'm still pissed. then he walked out angry. amazing how that kind of thing can snowball. i can't decide if i'm more irritated with his responses or mine.

oh well. hometime, at least.