Some days you can't win

[xela]

So I'm sitting in the basement, trying to work on the network wiring because it's about the most constructive thing I can do while the construction workers are running around the place with Mike FM* going full blast all day.

I'm trying not to irritate the two places I've already cut my fingertips because my hands are soft and I don't handle 24-gauge solid copper every day. I'm coughing, my eyes are watering, and in spite of the antihistamines my nose is dripping from all the dust.

And then a bug flies into my face. I clap my hands, trying to kill it — and my watch flies off my wrist. Landing - noiselessly - somewhere among the construction debris.

The watch that I bought less than a week ago, having finally given up hope of getting anything out of the "lifetime warranty" on my previous watch.

Half an hour of looking through construction trash later, I"m taking a break to whine.

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* A radio station whose "format" apparently consists of everything that has ever been in the top 40, as long as there's been a top 40, on random shuffle.

Comments

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

The slogan at Mike FM is "We play everything!" and sometimes I think they do.

[danj17.livejournal.com]

mike fm is preset #1 on my car radio.. its primary appeal to me is the lack of morning show at 8am...

[sammason.livejournal.com]

How incredibly irritating, physically and emotionally. I hope you find the watch. And I hope you can decamp to somebody else's house, or even to a cafe, from time to time.