Amphigouri: varnished nonsense

….or at least the Monday Mornings. It’s just a great start to the day when:

• The Nor’easter hammering the region is dumping buckets of rain in your area
• The zipper on your jacket finally gives up the ghost and refuses to zip even part way
• You don’t own a proper rain jacket, and can’t for the life of you find your old trenchcoat
• You end up being a little late leaving the house in the morning due to spending an extra 10 minutes trying unsuccessfully to zip the #!%*#!?@ broken jacket and then hunting in vain for the #!%*#!?@ trench coat
• Due to lateness, you grab the tax envelopes from the table without looking at them
• You chuck said tax envelopes into the drive-by mailbox at the post office, noticing at the last minute, as you watch them drift from your fingertips into the gaping blue metal maw, that they have no stamps

*cry*

Fortunately, the folks at the post office were quite helpful when I called and gave them the sad story of what I’d done; they found my envelopes when they sorted through the mailbox later in the morning, and when they opened to the public I was able to run down and stick stamps on the things. Crisis averted. I also detoured home at lunch and managed to find my old trench coat still in a box - somewhat worse for wear, but better at keeping out the wet than my other is at the moment. Also a plus (knock on wood), the work project I’m frobbing with at the moment is progressing reasonably well. Let’s hope that continues. Aside from the rain that shows signs of continuing through tomorrow(glub), the afternoon is shaping up muuuch better than the morning indicated.