Stress level

Well, if you’ve listened to my audio post you’ll know that United had me at the airport much earlier than needed. Then when I was finally able to check in, I opened my wallet to find that my driver’s license wasn’t where expected. Five minutes of extreme panic later I found it in the wallet but in with my library cards. How it got there I have no idea. Then my boarding pass and the departure screens contained no gate number for my flight. (Luckily DSM has only five gates to choose from for United.) Find my gate, check the e-mail. It seems that one person wants significant changes to one of my workshops that will involve compressing three hours of material into two, and filling the now empty hour with new material. Another e-mail informs me that some advice I gave in my security workshop on Tuesday has hosed a library’s network. (I think that my she took a suggestion for securing a client and did it on her server…) As if this wasn’t enough, 15 minutes later I was fidgeting with the only ring a wear and dropped it. Poof, it had disappeared. I ended up having me and three other people looking for it for ten minutes. One lady found it finally when the light caught the silver just right; it had rolled a good two yards and blended in with the carpet. On the plane… The guy in the next seat spilled his coffee some of which landed on my leg. (Luckily it wasn’t that hot any more.) I need a vacation.