A Long Day's Journey Into Night

Today was not a good day. One of our neighbours from across the street has just started his own business as a tree surgeon but now uses his front garden to cut up tree branches into logs with a chainsaw for hours at a time which is sorely testing our patience as we have only just recovered from the cacophony of a house two doors away (which I have mentioned in a previous blip) being gutted after it had been bought by new owners.
A couple of days ago we politely spoke to him as he'd decided to start firing up his chainsaw yet again not long after my sister had returned from a very challenging day at work. We thought that might have had the desired effect but just as I was sitting reading my book on what was a lovely early morning I heard an ominous buzzing start and sure enough he was off again. I thought I would leave it and just see if it was only for short period but it wasn't. It just carried on and off again for the next 3 or 4 hours.
So I tried to speak to him but of course he was wearing large ear defenders so he couldn't hear me. I eventually managed to catch his attention and reminded him that we'd spoken to him politely about this a couple of days ago, that this had now been going on for several hours and that we couldn't open our windows, sit in the garden or even hear our TV properly because it was so noisy. His delightful response was "You're really p*issing me off now, f*ck off!" Charming!
I hate confrontation even though I wasn't the one who'd instigated it - all I was asking was for some consideration as a neighbour and just not for him to be using an extremely noisy chainsaw for hours at a time. I didn't think that was an unreasonable request but apparently it is! I shouldn't have let it spoil my day but it did.
My mood didn't improve at all for the rest of the day and I couldn't get to sleep at night either. I even tried watching the most boring video I thought I had found - a half hour You Tube extravaganza on one the supposedly worst cars of the 1970's, the Austin Princess, to induce slumber but my eyelids utterly refused to even droop. I did finally get to sleep but not until around 4 a.m - it really had felt like a very long day.
The title of today's blip actually comes from a famous play by Eugene O'Neill first performed in 1956. The play takes place over a single day following a family's enduring and psychological stress as they struggle with their relationships, unfulfilled dreams and moral flaws so not quite the same as dealing with the stress of failing to appeal to the better nature of a noisy neighbour wielding a chainsaw and being unable to get any sleep despite watching the most boring video I could find but close enough right! :-)
Today's image was an emergency blip of the top of a Pluto (the Disney character not the planet) baseball cap taken earlier in the day which only in hindsight, with it's eyes on stalks and furrowed looking brow, somehow ended up representing my day!