Well, thanks for putting things in perspective. It hasn't been that bad. Still frustrating.
Coming back to the title of the thread I'm increasingly of the opinion that every day is the worst day of my life.
I mean, technology has never been more advanced. Manufacturing, communications...I'd say science, but that seems to be going backwards. Yet every day things get shittier. Broke my umbrella today. It's impossible to get a basic black ordinary umbrella. Staples, of all places is the only place that seems to have them. Now Staples umbrellas are flimsy and shitty, but they're the only option. So when the one I bought last year breaks, I go buy another one. Walking The Dog in the rain. It's groundhog season so we're along the sidehill of the steep, muddy, rain-slicked grass banks of the nearby creek. I know the umbrella is fragile but I also don't want to fall down and get mud and grass stains all over the jeans that I just fucking put on. I mean, I'm going to have to change them anyway when I get home because I forgot to tuck them into my rubber boots so the bottom 7" of the legs are soaked, but I don't want to fall. So I'm using the umbrella like a cane--just lightly and for stability. I fall anyway. And the way the umbrella reacts, I know what I'm going to find. Sure enough, the end 4" above the fabric has snapped clean off. Out of frustration, I smash it over my knee, breaking the handle off, and throw it in the grass.
More on that.
Other day I was walking The Dog and as we're going across the bridge over the creek I watch a slacker druggie on his kids BMX bike rummage through his bag in a leisurely manner to find things he doesn't want and throw them over the railing. Pissed me off. And I almost always wind up picking up some amount of litter when I'm walking. But I give up. They win. Fuck it. The umbrella can be with everyone else's trash. It has a better reason to be there than anything else. Of course not long after that it started raining like a bastard again, so when The Dog backtracked to follow a scent I picked it up and walked along like a bum with my ratty field jacket, tattered had, and broken umbrella.
We get to a point where I have to cut the walk short because further down the hobos have set up a camp. Fucking hobos get somewhere and within a day it looks like someone emptied a dumpster there. I really don't know how they even manage it.
But getting back to technology. Back in 1999 Hotmail was awesome. On par with MS Outlook. Then MS bought it and wrecked it. Because that's easier than actually making Outlook better. Google was awesome. Fast, freakishly accurate. Today it is slow and bloated and buggy. I know the "Every day is the worst day of my life" quote from "Office Space," but I wanted to confirm the wording. It was impossible to find the quote I was looking for. The quote later on when the shrink asks for clarification is there, but the initial "tell me about yourself, Peter," conversation is NO WHERE. I even checked YouTube. Things just *disappear* from the Web these days. Not that it matters because there's nowhere to post a quote anyway because Facebook has so much useless stupid garbage to stuff into your computer that it freezes up the browser.
I try to get myself psyched up for the day: Sure, you're going to fail at 90% of the things you attempt today. Sure, it would be less work to just do nothing. But then you'd fail at 100%. Except that when I try I wind up just making things worse 60% of the time. So on the net balance, right now I'd be so much more productive if I just stayed in bed.
