Bleh. So, I did end up travelling to Corpus Christi yesterday. Believe me, the Corpus run is enough of a pain in the ass when it’s clear skies the entire way. Unfortunately, the weather was pretty bad, so I was driving through almost constant rain showers until I was about ten miles past Refugio. On the way there, I picked up some lunch from a McDonald’s in Odem (about 15 miles from the actual office location), and brought it to the office with me. As I remarked to one of the employees there, “I only ever eat McDonald’s when I go to Corpus… and each time it reminds me of why I never eat there any other time.” After getting everything taken care of there that needed to be taken care of, I left at 4:30 PM, stopped for food at a nearby Denny’s and gas at the Raceway in the same parking lot ($2.50 for regular… damn), and then made the long drive home. Again, it was rainy off and on most of the way back, before settling on hazy and humid by the time I reached Houston proper. I got home at 9 PM, checked some stuff, and eventually went to bed…
… before getting up an hour earlier than normal so that I could be at the office early to make some preparations in advance of a board meeting. *sigh* I’m almost tempted to ask if I can go home early tomorrow after all the late nights I’ve had, but I’ve got too much to do to even consider doing that. Ah, well…
Those of you who know me well tend to know that I tend to be rather pragmatic, to the point where I don’t even wear jewelry save one item: a gunmetal and gold wristwatch. I bought it using money given to me by my paternal grandmother before she died, and it’s meant quite a bit to me as a result. Well, a few days ago I found something rather disturbing: I must have hit the watch against something accidentally with some force, as a crack had appeared in the crystal face. Mom was good enough to take it in to the jeweler she uses, and they’re ordering a new crystal face for me. They didn’t have the ones with the gold band around it in stock, apparently. In the meantime, I tried doing what some friends do and use my cell phone as a timepiece, but it tended to annoy me more often than not. Thankfully, Dad’s letting me borrow a gold watch in the meantime until I get mine back. I was going crazy checking my wrist and not seeing a watch there…
And for now, I’m just going to get a drink and possibly go to bed a bit early. Thankfully tomorrow is the end of the work week, and I can relax a bit afterwards. Fun fun…