Didja ever have one of those days
When you knew you were in the shit? When you knew that the first job of the day would also be the last, because it was going to be obscenely difficult? When the fire in your guts would require a half roll of rolaids to quench? When the end of your day would be so sweet by comparison that you knew you’d fall asleep grinning just to have survived it?
And it all goes well? When you can connect two wires and the system comes online and begins to work like wildfire? When an utterly unexpected confluation allows everything to function as desired without six hours of swimming through mire? When you actually manage to get something accomplished before noon, and then go on to get something completely unexpected accomplished AFTER noon?
I don’t get many days like that, but I’ll take ’em. Yesterday was one. It was unspeakably tasty. I hope I don’t have to wait around for the other shoe to drop.
Good on you! Sometimes things work, against all odds.
Those days are rare but absolutely awesome. They can almost bring a tear to your eye. Sometimes you feel as though you’ve cheated Mr. Fate.
In my younger days I was an idealistic best-case-scenario kind of guy. Almost without fail, work/life would throw a curve ball from nowhere and I’d get INCENSED and throw thunderbolts back at the Gods.
These days I just assume that every day will be The Day From Hell and when it turns out better than the worst-case-scenario I feel I’ve cheated Mr. Fate. Every morning when I awake I’m amazed that I made it through another night. Every day when I’m within sight of my workplace and the building isn’t engulfed in flames… I’m amazed. Every time the phone rings I assume it’s the worst news of my life and when It’s not I’m relieved. A quarter century of managing other humans will do that to a fella.
The lintwife thinks I’ve become fatalistic and have taken this line of thinking to the extreme but it’s how I roll now. Always expect the worst…. be happy when it’s not.
But I gotta admit, Obammer has turned out WAY worse than even I expected… and that’s pretty fkn bad.
You summed it up well.
Sounds as if you are being set up for the Big Fail, heh, heh.
Some days you are punished for your hubris and other days you are rewarded for your humility. Other days just plain suck and others yet are great. Glad you had a good day. You will NOT be punished for enjoying it. My day at the range was most excellent and I dread to think what tomorrow will bring.