And this is how the day catches up with you

I had all kinds of things that I was trying to decide between for posting today. There was Tim's dental surgery, my slug ride in in the car that smelled funny (really it smelled...strange. I've never smelled pot, but honestly if I had to try and imagine what pot smelled like, it would smell like this guy's car), the fact that I'm seriously considering becoming the neighborhood narc (I counted four non-military cars that have been there for. ever. who haven't bothered to register in VA. And, you know, pay their property taxes. One is from Maryland which really irritates me. You wanna live in MD? Please, go.)

And then I got to work and got dragged into a meeting that I'd been promised I wouldn't have to attend. A meeting wherein our PM (the big PM for the whole contract, not a little project that's part of the contract) proceeded to chew off our butts indiscriminately and hand them back on platters. And what kills me is that yes, all his points were valid. And completely inapplicable to me. Unless I was suddenly given authority I didn't have previously and no one notified me. Sigh.

That kind of casts a pall on the day. So now I'm hoping for snow so that maybe I can plead the ridiculousness of this area and just stay home tomorrow.

Otherwise I might just call in dead.