mdlbear | Not my day... (Reply)

... for dealing with physical objects, anyway. This afternoon I somehow managed to get my keychain tangled up with my steering wheel and windshield-wiper lever, causing a minor explosion of keys all over the inside of the car. I think I have managed to straighten the bent one back to the point of useability. (8:52 verified, by the simple if slightly risky experiment of using it to move the van so the garbage bins could be rolled out to the curb.)

And only half an hour ago, when attempting to flatten a board that was considerably more warped than I needed it to be, I managed to break my right thumbnail. Right before a filk con. Fortunately, the break provided a good gluing surface for once, and didn't affect the outside edge (which is what I use for picking), so it could conceivably hold together. Maybe. If not, well, it wouldn't be the first time I've played a guitar without my fingernails. It'll just hurt a little.

Meanwhile, the flower_cat is annoyed at me for not finding the black pepper, which she insisted was in a tin on the kitchen counter. The fact that she was eventually able to find it in a plastic bag in a drawer does not seem to lessen her annoyance. That's ok; I'm annoyed at me, too.

I did have a reasonably productive morning, though; did all the data entry for the Amex year-end report, which covers essentially all of my online payments. That leaves only the paper store receipts; the various forms (1040 and the 1099's) get entered directly into the software.

And I had a good walk, if slightly less than yesterday: three miles by the creek, from Leigh Avenue to the little park at Campbell Avenue and back.