Well, I'm ready to call it quits for the night. I've about finished editing an article that somehow went astray when I was writing it yesterday. My boss asked me to take another stab at it, so I have been.

But this was one of those days when the office machines all ganged up on us. A file I sent to one of the secretaries to print out wouldn't display properly. Her little ink jet printer had the best rendering of it, but we needed 200 copies. Couldn't waste that much ink on her desk printer, and the darned big one wouldn't receive it with corrections to lighten it (though I told it to) and it wouldn't copy the better print without turning it to a blob. I was at Office Depot twice today finishing this project. There is a print shop on campus, but they wouldn't have been able to drop what they were doing, they would have me come back and look at a proof, etc.

Traffic lights got the hang of the printer truculence and elevators languished on lower floors of the building, refusing to rise to the call button. I tell you, it was slow all around. On my way home from work I did a favor for a co-worker who lives in another direction from the university (and who picks things up and delivers them for me when I'm not on campus). The friend I took her softball registration money to works in the traffic equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. But before the day was over I did hand deliver the letter to the insurance office that I'm not renewing two of my three policies with them. I did some of the shopping I needed to, and I have hopes the rest of the week will turn out better.

SRS