Yesterday was… uh… a day. There was cool stuff and crap stuff. I'll leave it to you to sort which is which.

• The Chicken had his first day of 2nd grade. We were up out of bed early and off to the bus stop. Chicken was mostly excited about school, but I'm definitely not excited about getting up earlier again.

• A little over an hour later I was leaning against the car and having a cigarette before work. An old woman asked me for directions and I was so lost in thought I could not remember my own address, either street name or house number. She went on her way before I had a chance to forget in which city I live.

• About an hour after that I was at work when the hard drive in my workstation spun its last. Big pile of suck. There's nothing like a key piece of hardware breaking to stop you dead in your tracks. If only I knew someone who could fix it. Oh, wait… that's me. So, yeah. Spent most of the day getting my own workstation up and running again. The process will continue today.

• Did you know we have a rental property? Yup, I am an evil scum-sucking slumlord. I would not suck so much scum, nor would I do it so evilly, if our tenants weren't so goddamn frustrating. However, after yesterday my frustration is not quite so intense. Some loan officer of some sort called me at work for a reference. Apparently our tenants are trying to get credit for something or other. The woman on the phone wanted to know about their payment history. It was wonderfully and maliciously fun to be able to truthfully tell her that my tenants are not current on their rent and haven't paid anything on time for years.

• Lists are fun!

 
Yeah, so… little of this, little of that. I still haven't quite decided if yesterday was good, bad or "other."