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A Long Day: 01/31/07

I had originally planned to post about how much I love slings and about my plans to make a Maya wrap style sling for myself and Harriet but I really feel the need to vent about today. The sling post will just have to wait for another day.

First of all there were some unexpected technical difficulties with work. One of the potential problems with working remotely is that I'm directly connected with my client's LAN nor I am I using one of my client's machines that is set up to automatically update itself with whatever the IT department makes changes or posts software updates. While most of the time working remotely on the laptop I have doesn't cause any problems with work but when problems do arise it isn't always easy to see if the problem is related to my non-standard set up or to something happening at my client's end.

Today I had to spend an hour trying to figure out why my VPN client's DNS settings were no longer working. It ultimately came down to downloading a couple new components and rebooting but it was still frustrating for me and worrying for my client. Fortunately it didn't get in the way of any time critical deadlines.

Then it was time to get Sean from school. Harriet had fallen asleep in the car so Ian went in alone. He comes out carrying a sobbing Sean. Sean is minus his new shoes. One of the other students had worn his new shoes home! So before we could do anything we had to go back to the store and find a duplicate pair of shoes. Is it too much to expect my child to come home wearing all of his clothes at the end of the day? What do I have to do, LoJack his shoes?

On the way home traffic suddenly got really had at the bridge across the freeway that separates Hayward from Castro Valley. Twenty minutes of inching forward we finally hear the traffic report on the radio. There was "police activity" at the intersection leading into the Hayward hills. We do a U-turn and try to take a different road home but can't get into the left lane because of the back up in traffic.

So we decide to give up on having dinner at home. We go to Baker's Square instead. Before we can have dinner I have to change Harriet's diaper. As the restaurant doesn't have a changing table I have do it in the car. It's cold outside but she had pooped was uncomfortable.

We managed to have a nice dinner and decide just in case we should take the long way home through down town Hayward. Our street is also swarming with sheriff cars but we're able to get home. Later we learned there had a been a shooting.

An hour and a half late I finally got Harriet bathed, changed for bed, fed and in bed. Sean went to bed shortly there after. While looking for a Sharpie to write Sean's name on his newest pair of new shoes I had my foot smashed (run over) by one of the couch's feet. My foot still hurts but it isn't broken.

At the end of everything, I burst into tears: something I don't often do.

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