Clockwork Man

Happy birthday to me....


6:30 am - Wake up to the radio, and the sad state of world affairs on the news.

7:00 am - Answer phone - Happy birthday! Thank you.

7:30 am - Answer phone again - Happy birthday! Thank you.

7:45 am - Walk to work.

8:00 am - Continue editing for Nasopharyngeal Test Swab How-To video.

1:45 pm - Meet White in the parking deck to exchange vehicles. Discover truck has a severe flat tire.

1:48 pm - Realize there's not a working jack in the truck.

1:49 pm - Try to dig the jack out of the trunk of the car, in the hopes it'll work.

2:15 pm - Realize spare tire on truck can't be removed, because the tool necessary to lower it is also missing.

2:31 pm - Give up.

2:33 pm - Eat cold sandwich in parking deck. Receive tasty birthday gifts.

2:44 pm - Wave goodbye to White, returning to Cartersville in the same vehicle in which she came.

2:51 pm - Resume editing Nasopharyngeal Test Swab How-To video. Render for over an hour.

4:16 pm - Leave work, head south.

5:08 pm - Meet Drifter & Shade at Newnan cinema to see Iron Man (Quite a fun movie, actually - Robert Downey, Jr. is excellent.)

7:58 pm - Say goodbye; head home.

8:14 pm - Find auto parts store. Buy air compressor/tank/thingy to refill truck tire.

8:35 pm - Fill air tank at gas station air pump.

8:46 pm - Realize I haven't even seen a slice of cake all day. Stop for milkshake.

9:28 pm - Stop in parking deck to fill truck tire. Leave tank with truck.

9:46 pm - Argue with garbage man over the only available parking space at the loft, and whether or not it's morally acceptable for him & his cohorts to block one of only three existing parking spaces with their cute little pseudo-official-looking orange barrel in order to avoid having to push the bins 20 feet further up the sidewalk.

9:52 pm - Win argument/find acceptable compromise.

10:02 pm - Open birthday cider.

10:16 pm - Shoot blip. (It's a Doctor Who figure - a birthday gift from Drifter & Shade.)

10:36 pm - Start to upload blip. Open another cider.

11:13 pm - Finish writing this novel.

11:22 pm - Finish putting all the damned italics in the text. (What was I thinking?)

11:23 pm - Post.

11:30 pm (projected) - Ponder the meaninglessness of existence.

11:31 pm (projected) - Sleep.