I just want to order a burger, is that so wrong?

14 hours at work, 9 hours since lunch, and that's when I realize, I don't know when I'm getting home, or when I'm getting food. I'm trapped in the drive-thru at In-and-Out. Cars in front of me. Cars behind me. No one is moving. I watch each minute tick away with growing impatience, hunger, and exhaustion. Hell, I don't care if I don't get to order (oh yeah, I didn't even order as after 5 minutes of waiting to place my order at the designated "order here" spot no one took my order and the cars behind me were getting restless) I just want to be able to drive somewhere—anywhere—else! 23 minutes into being held against my will, I finally arrive at the pick-up window and before I can even get the words, "I didn't get to order yet," the kind face that I want to be mad at consolingly says, "I'm so sorry that we missed you, what would you like tonight." And while I still had to pay for my order— a #2 with onions and water instead of soda—the way in which she served me somehow made up for the fact that I my long day had been made that much longer by some snafu that I'm sure could have been avoided.

As unluck would have it, I arrived home to find that Comcast's HSI network was apparently down in my 'hood (which they would not admit to, they never do). All I wanted to do was eat my dinner, catch up on email and news, maybe a little iChatting, and then "hitting the sack" ... before going to bed. :P The network is still down, but I lucked out and managed to find that one of my neighbors must have received a wi-fi base station for Christmas, and lucked out even further because they left it open rather than putting a password on it.

Now that I'm all caught up on news, I think I'm going to skip the email and chatting and other activities on the interwebs and just go to bed. Having put in almost 30 hours at work in just two days, and with the rest of the week looking at least as busy, I'm gonna need as much sleep as I can get. *sigh* Oh how I long for the days of hourly employment and its overtime.