Yay, peaceful mornings.

I've been wearing myself out. I slept 10 hours last night (an hour past the alarm), scrambled, made it in only marginally later than intended. I feel more awake today, though, and much happier, because the worst of the three-ring-circus chaos is done. My new laptop has all the stuff it needs to, almost, I'm just tweaking the last few things into place. All of my build-stuff except the installshield is working right, and sooner or later I will find the problem plaguing it and make it work.

And I like having a boss, again. During all the madcap chaos of the last couple days, at least I knew what I was working on. I'd been moved to that, and I wasn't trying to still keep the other commitments simultaneously. Considering it took me a 12-hour day and then a 10-hour day to pull it off, I'm really glad I wasn't trying to get anything else done. (I actually did get a couple other things done - critical things that interrupted, and some administrative tasks that were small-but-important when there was nothing I could do on the demo - but I didn't have the whole set of stuff-I-had-been-meaning-to-work-on breathing down my neck. It just got put off a couple days. WHEW!)

What obscure animal am I?

Apparently, as far as obscure animals, I am a sugar glider.

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Just for the record: whew!

Took my shower. Reached for curtain to pull aside to get out of shower.

Beleaguered "brace-up" rod gives way, finally. Ooookay. I am standing, starkers, dripping, in the bathtub, and the shower curtain rod comes straight down.

Thank you, whatever part of the universe decided this physics demonstration did NOT involve bruised flesh. The end of the curtain rod landed between the big toe and its neighbor, on my left foot, at such an angle that the smaller toe was hit (so that I could feel it), but not hard, because the curtain-rod hit the bathtub surface simultaneously or even a little before. Bathtub is a lot harder than my toe, it is welcome to absorb the force.

Curtain rod back up, self dry, just wanted to eep about that, going to bed now. Before anything else falls. :)