Ugh. Me tired.
Feb. 26th, 2004 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madbakerBrutal day yesterday, more because it was looong than anything else.
Left the house at 5 AM, as usual. Took longer to drive to work due to the torrential downpour and gale-force winds.
Had to stay late for a marketing presentation. That's not in my normal job description, but I was there as part of the dog-and-pony show. It made for a ten-hour day in the office. Which mightn't have been so bad if I'd been driving home then, since the rain had cleared up – but as part of the whole marketing effort, I had to go to dinner with the group.
I know, poor me. Forced to eat on a corporate expense account. Waaah. True. The place was pretty good: Parcel 104 in Santa Clara, which I guess is reasonably upscale. Good food and wine, although I wouldn't rave about it.
Still, it was 9 PM when I bailed; and the rain had started up again, so I drove another 45 minutes in torrential downpour, gale-force winds, and lightning. If it hadn't been for the weather the drive home would have been fine, and I wouldn't be quite so exhausted today.
Oh well; it’s all part of slaving away to pay for the important things: my wife's school tuition, and kitty food.
Left the house at 5 AM, as usual. Took longer to drive to work due to the torrential downpour and gale-force winds.
Had to stay late for a marketing presentation. That's not in my normal job description, but I was there as part of the dog-and-pony show. It made for a ten-hour day in the office. Which mightn't have been so bad if I'd been driving home then, since the rain had cleared up – but as part of the whole marketing effort, I had to go to dinner with the group.
I know, poor me. Forced to eat on a corporate expense account. Waaah. True. The place was pretty good: Parcel 104 in Santa Clara, which I guess is reasonably upscale. Good food and wine, although I wouldn't rave about it.
Still, it was 9 PM when I bailed; and the rain had started up again, so I drove another 45 minutes in torrential downpour, gale-force winds, and lightning. If it hadn't been for the weather the drive home would have been fine, and I wouldn't be quite so exhausted today.
Oh well; it’s all part of slaving away to pay for the important things: my wife's school tuition, and kitty food.
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Date: 2004-02-26 10:38 am (UTC)Hope today is gentler for you though.
What a storm!
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Date: 2004-02-26 11:14 pm (UTC)Should your work ethic begin to flag, repeat after me, "Wife's gotta eat and kitty needs a new pair of shoes!" over and over.
2nd try for a reply...
Date: 2004-02-27 08:33 am (UTC)You're right, I use that phrase (or variant thereof) fairly often. Don't get me wrong - I'm very happy that my wife is going to school, doing well and something she enjoys.
But lately the line from Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes has been resonating a bit too much: "I get so tired working for our survival."
Anyway, Wednesday I spent 17 hours straight in transit to/from work, at work, or doing work-related schmoozing (which wasn't fun. Decent food, but it was still work.)
Re: 2nd try for a reply...
Date: 2004-02-27 07:52 pm (UTC)