Is it too much to ask?
Feb. 10th, 2004 09:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muck_a_luckDammit! All I want to do is work a freakin' 40-hour week!
Is that too much to ask?
So this week looks fine weather-wise. The Small Boy should be in school full-time all week. Yay!
Well, this morning Fairfax Connector decided not to run any bus service between Reston and West Falls Church. The entire Tysons/Dulles corridor is completely without bus service.
Bastards! Bastards! Bastards!
Husband assumed the 5:30 bus had been early, and that probably the 6am bus had some sort of mechanical problem. He gave up after waiting nearly an hour for a bus and came in to check the Connector website. The site said "Major Delays." Liars! Yeah, no bus service is likely to cause "major delays!"
So, got The Small Boy up early, drove The Husband to West Falls (and belive me, there's no better way to meet fools in traffic than to drive all over Fairfax County at rush hour), then drove back to Reston to drop The Small Boy off at school.
Small blessings - the door alarm on the car was behaving itself, so we didn't have to listen to constant dinging in the stop-and-go traffic. Also, for some reason traffic was very light today everywhere I went. So it was rush hour, but not too painful, as rush hour can go.
Of course, The Husband has no way to get back to Reston this afternoon, so leaving work early, too.
2.5 hours lost today on stupid bus issues.
Dammit.
Is that too much to ask?
So this week looks fine weather-wise. The Small Boy should be in school full-time all week. Yay!
Well, this morning Fairfax Connector decided not to run any bus service between Reston and West Falls Church. The entire Tysons/Dulles corridor is completely without bus service.
Bastards! Bastards! Bastards!
Husband assumed the 5:30 bus had been early, and that probably the 6am bus had some sort of mechanical problem. He gave up after waiting nearly an hour for a bus and came in to check the Connector website. The site said "Major Delays." Liars! Yeah, no bus service is likely to cause "major delays!"
So, got The Small Boy up early, drove The Husband to West Falls (and belive me, there's no better way to meet fools in traffic than to drive all over Fairfax County at rush hour), then drove back to Reston to drop The Small Boy off at school.
Small blessings - the door alarm on the car was behaving itself, so we didn't have to listen to constant dinging in the stop-and-go traffic. Also, for some reason traffic was very light today everywhere I went. So it was rush hour, but not too painful, as rush hour can go.
Of course, The Husband has no way to get back to Reston this afternoon, so leaving work early, too.
2.5 hours lost today on stupid bus issues.
Dammit.
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I'm Back!!
Date: 2004-02-10 02:40 pm (UTC)So I almost made it to 3pm, but not quite!! Mainly cause SM actually switched off our interent connection for 3 hours earlier, and I became irrationally fidgety - what if we can't get it back? What would I do then?? In fact, I can't understand anyone wanting to voluntarily switch off their connection. Okay, it had something to do with increasing speed, but still ...
And every time I pop into your place it's changed! It's even different than it was 10 minutes ago!!
And I can't get onto AIM. Keeps telling me there's no connection, when, now, there clearly is!!
So, back to more boring work :(
Re: I'm Back!!
Date: 2004-02-10 03:05 pm (UTC)I am not at the tweaking stage, though still not 100% happy with the collage, and that will probably change in the near future, but not before the weekend. But font was too small for me, and I needed to get the wasting theme completely worked out, and probably today will fiddle with the colors, which don't completely please me...
You have created a monster! :)
If the bus outage lasts long, I will probably kill someone. Because The Small Boy cannot be dropped off for school before 8:40, but husband needs to be on the train much earlier. The upshot of it is, the train station is about 10 minutes from my office, but I have to go *back* to drop The Small Boy at school - probably a 40-50 minute round trip from train station to school *back* to office. Yes, some bus authorities will die! *snortle* But maybe if it's really going to be medium term - like a week - The Husband can convince his bosses to let him work at home. Which he could do anytime, but they just dislike.
If AIM ever does get up, e-mail me at the work e-mail address and I'll switch screen names...
Love!
Re: I'm Back!!
Date: 2004-02-10 03:07 pm (UTC)No, I guess that would be a proof reading issue...
Re: I'm Back!!
Date: 2004-02-11 12:37 am (UTC)Hugs
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