Today was mostly a wasted day. Oh, it had some good moments, but they were few and far between. First, I woke up about 2:30 AM for an hour or so, thinking about work. Then, I had a series of four back to back meetings at work and they were each as contentious as the one before. Of a particularly frustrating nature was the last meeting - I was attempting to have a meeting about the UAT testing, but one of the team members invited a person who had no business on an UAT meeting, and then spent the entire meeting with us trying to get through anything, but we couldn't because they spent the whole meeting trying to explain it to the person who shouldn't have even been there. Totally frustrating.
Then I had a UPS incident - and this has actually happened to me before with UPS. I wish, when you ordered things, the shippers let me decide which carrier to use, because my experience with UPS has not been good. I'd ordered a jacket that was shipped via UPS, with an original scheduled date of the 28th. It never made it. The UPS site said it would arrive today on 29th, so I was home all afternoon, waiting for the arrival. It never showed - no knock on the door, no package delivered, nothing. About six PM this evening I went online to check the status of the package - and it said it was delivered at 2:35 PM and left at the door.
Uh, not a chance. I live in a small apartment and at 2:30 PM I was sitting in the spare bedroom/office specifically waiting for the arrival while writing on a work project. Nothing was delivered. So, who knows where the heck it was delivered too, but it certainly wasn't me. I even took a walk through the apartment complex to see if it was accidentally sitting at someone else's door. Nothing that I could see. So, I suspect that the UPS driver probably dropped it at the wrong street address. Which means, starting tomorrow, I have to go through the hassle of contacting the original shipper and having them file the claim with UPS. Normally, it would be an irritant (and it is), but I have had this happen with UPS before - where they claimed to deliver something, but they never did - and it's not like I could have accidentally missed it - I was sitting at home specifically waiting for it. Frustrating. And what is going to frustrate me even more is, if the vendor ships a replacement - they're probably going to ship it by UPS again. Okay, that was my UPS vent. I personally have better service with the USPS and Federal Express.
Okay, so let me sum up the three parts of my cranky - UPS (grrrrr), Work (grrrrr), Thinking About Work When I Should Be Sleeping (grrrr). I don't know what it is, but when it rains, it sure seems to pour in life. All right, got that out of my system.
I am going to go back online hear and do a small spot of work (a pair of configuration requirements) and then call it an early night and maybe try relaxing into the evening with a little writing or a little reading, something to break the relatively stressful routine that I've found myself in.
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