monday quasi-crap + quid pro quo

BUS-TED: Mike's out of town, and I am still okay walking, so I took the bus to and from work yesterday. Neither bus was the one I wanted, but that's fine. The line I ride has a tendency to run early/late/early/late, so even if I get to my stop 5 minutes early, I might miss my 9 a.m. ride in and have to wait another 20+ minutes for the next one, which is usually late. The return bus leaves from a transit center, so it leaves no earlier than the time listed on the timetable, which is as it should be. I still got one bus later than I wanted, because I took too long chatting with a coworker on the way out.

DECLINED: From her car, Jenny saw me exiting the bus at Bissonnet and Shepherd, which was neat. Via cellphone, she said she and Eric couldn't make the shower. She was getting on the highway, so we ended the call.

OWIE + DOH!: Once home, I tried to put my laptop in my bag to bring to Sherri's, but I missed, and the lappy slid off the bag (on Mike's TV stand), and I -erm- broke its fall to the concrete floor with my left foot. So the corner of the lappy is dented, and my foot is bruised, but neither is totally kaput.

QPQ: At Sherri's, I helped clean a stained roller in her printer, reset her desktop and screen saver, and with some remote assistance from Blobby-daddy, diagnosed her problem with sending e-mails (AT&T's outgoing mail server had been down, and they "lied" to her about it). We also figured out where the guy who set her computer up had misspelled her name and fixed that. In return, I got a NICE hamburger and spent some pleasant time writing thank-you notes with Julia (hers for her birthday, mine from the...errr....w e d d i n g).

ZZZ: Turned in early; got a good night's sleep. With a cuddly cat-batt.