Let’s see now….

The house is back to its prior state of disarray now that the master bathroom has been torn apart. They say it’ll look beautiful, but right now it’s a disaster area.

Kitchen and bath fixtures are very expensive. I recommend spending money on them only once every 20 years or so.

Our PC is nothing but an elegant looking boat anchor since, as it turns out, our RAID disk array (this allows the mirroring of your dual hard drives, for all you non-PC folks out there) crashed two weeks ago.

Fortunately, the data on our hard drive wasn’t lost.

Unfortunately, to re-configure the disk array you need to copy your critical data to an external source since the drives will be reformatted as part of the process.

Double unfortunately, we’ve lost the OS install disk that came with the PC, meaning Dell has to send us a new set, arriving in 2-3 business days.

Triple unfortunately, 2-3 business days leaves us 2 business days until April 15. Looks like the taxes are going to be delayed….

And to top it all off, I’m sick. Seems like two days after any plane flight I’m on I come down with something. This one has hit really hard.

Oh sure, things can be worse. Hell, things can be a whole helluva lot worse.

But that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be nice to have things back to good ol’ boring status quo – a happy and healthy Great White Shank tapping away at the keyboard on his equally happy and healthy home PC, the house around him in perfect order, everything in its place, no dust, no walls with whole in them, no garage filled with stuff that normally doesn’t belong there.

Someday it’ll happen (God willing).

It’s just not now.