I've had a shitty week. That's why there haven't been any posts and for those of you who visit the message boards. that's why I've been mostly persona-au-gratin there as well. Or not there as well.

Whatever.

The cause of the shitty has been mostly stupid, petty crappy, work-related stuff.

Monday before I got everything done at one property, news came that a drain was puking for the 974 1/2 time, in spite of several hundred dollars worth of Rotten Rooter charges. So I high-tailed it over there and then spent most of the day there primping the place for a visit by "The Bosses". Of course, I had this visit communicated to me at 2:45 on Friday afternoon and I never checked my mail after about 1PM so I'm going crazy...

Tuesday started off with over an hour's worth of farting with the garbage area at my morning property. There are two regular dumpsters and two composting dumpsters there and they serve two restaurants and a prep kitchen for a tour boat.

On Monday, you will recall, I was called away before I got to everything. Well, this was part of that everything.

I had to clean up literal piles of food waste that had either been spilled out of the bins by the garbage collectors or simply dropped and left by the various kitchens' staffers. Then I had to hose the whole area down.

Wednesday started out with a call from one of the tenants at the morning property who gave me the good news that someone had galumped up the stairs of their main entry with dog shit on their shoes. Since they have no day porter service, guess who had to clean that up?

Wednesday afternoon met me with a denial for a cordless drill/driver of my own. For some reason, that's too great an expense and I have to "make do" with an older model that has a chuck that won't grip right.

Today it took me two hours to drill two holes in a concrete garage wall and install a key box. Most of that time was due to the aforementioned drill/driver. It seems that anything you stick in the chuck slides back into the chuck head when pressure is applied (like, oh, when you're drilling a hole in concrete).

I invented several new combinations of swear words today.

Tomorrow is Friday and I'm seriously considering taking half a mental health day.

Mental health? What's that?!