Hey! One of the paragraphs disappeared from my last post (the second one... hence the gap)! Let me try again to post just that missing bit of griping:

I'm tired and irritable too... in the midst of our national situation, it's also the usual crunch-time where I work, made worse by several rounds of layoffs over the past year and the resultant personnel shortage. I'm doing two jobs besides my own right now, and because we're so far behind schedule I'm under orders not to check the internet for news about what's happening north of us in NYC and south of us in DC and west of us in Somerset County PA.... feeling uninformed as well as surrounded by tragedy. I haven't even let myself cry yet (maybe on Sunday, when the plant is closed); if I let go, I'll never get done what I need to do. No one to hug at home except the cat, no time to go anyplace except to sleep and to work again. So I'm not at my best right now. Sorry again.

Okay, enough gripiness. I'm gonna go hug my cat now.

Sharon