Still not a good day yet

Yesterday was hell.

up at 4, on the road at 5, stuck in the parking lot tjhat was I 40 for 3 hours. The road was black ice.

Late for my deliveries. The pressure in my head abated, because one ear started draining. My cough keeps getting deeper in my chest.

The IdleAire was iffy. Net works, temp control does not. So i froze all night. Slept dressed and hauled my plaid into the sleeping bag with me. I woke up at 5 and could not go back to sleep.

Somehow this morning I managd to sit on my glasses. I broke the frame and popped a lens. I'm going to the travel store and buying duct tape so I can get home. I am legally blind w/o them, which is not a good thing when in charge of 40 tons of rolling steel. I needed new glasses anyway. Street signs were getting blurry.

I got done so late I can't leave until 7:30 central


I want a do-over for the whole farkin week, please.

("I wasn't aware being fucking blind was an excuse to miss class." --Sheldon Sands)

I have new glasses

They're not bad. A little dykey, but all the current frame styles make me look that way.
My prescription is only a little stronger.

I'm getting used to them and feeling woozy and light headed.

No way i can make Conflation. I drive Thurs-Sat. I thought it was more around August...
Contacted Media West about a refund as well. With Bun in the hospital, travel is too complicated.

I need to request my time off for the year. i get 4 vacation days. 2 of them are for Mid South. May just take the rest around the Fourth of July when the plant is shut down.

50 Book Update

5) Getting into Character; Seven secrets a novelist can learn from Actors. Brandilyn Collins.  Very good.  had a couple of revelations about various characters already.

4) Writers of the Future (1989) The winners of the annual short story contest judged by some of the biggest names in SF.

3) Turn the other Chick. Ester Friesner, ed. More humorous stories of women in armor. Harry Turtledove's "Of Mice and Chicks" is a scream.

2) The Pirate and the Puritan. Cheryl Howe.  Basic historical romance.

1) Neuromancer by William Gibson. Great grand-daddy of the whole cyberpunk genre.