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At one point I would have sworn I was on a hidden camera show

9:00 AM Drive to state capital to go through library archives that were supposed to be ready by 10:30.

10:00 AM Park at the only place available that I could find with my limited knowledge of the capital -- a two hour meter four long blocks away. I was told to bring quarters, so I'm all set.

11:40 AM Archived materials finally arrive.

11:45 AM Head to plunk more quarters in the meter.

11:59 AM Arrive to see a $25 parking ticket on windshield, timed 11:58 AM. I guess I must have arrived at 9:57 AM. Contemplate lunch. After driving around unfamiliar roads, get a little lost and figure I'd better just go back the way I came. One way streets confound this effort. Park my car to now-available closer meter. Wonder if I can get the firm to pay for ticket. Figure maybe I can---if I had found a garage, it probably would have cost close to that. Maybe? Plunk in two hours worth of quarters.

12:30ish Begin working with records in earnest. Discover that I am definitely going to need another day because these records don't contain what the boxes say they do and the archives limited the number of boxes I could access. Discover the folder with the most promising title is actually empty. Work goes quickly.

2:15PM Driving a new way to firm since I normally don't come from the capital. Doing about 35 on one of those residential through streets on which people often do 50. Red and blue lights in the rear view. Get a written warning for speeding. My registration expired a week ago. Find out that since I mailed my registration renewal late, it hasn't hit the system yet. Get a $93 ticket for failure to renew my registration. Even though I did and have the check stub to prove it. Figure there is no way to pass this one onto the client.

2:30PM Report on the days research by email, seek guidance on return trip, and begin working on my other assignment. Get about halfway done, feeling good about it.

5:00PM Make a mistake with Worldox -- while trying to shut down one doc that seems frozen, somehow shut down all docs, including the one I was working on. Lose everything I had been working on.

7:30PM Arrive home after trying to recoup what I had lost. Discover Bullshark is not exactly sympathetic to my plight.

Today can only be better, right?

Full post as published by Butterflyfish on May 30, 2008 (boomark / email).