This is proving to be a very difficult week. I mean, ok, Tuesday I smashed my thumb with the hammer. That sucks, but I’m pretty accident prone, so it’s not really surprising. Then my "fixed" bed woke me up by crashing to the ground on Wednesday morning. I wound up working late because my projects were exploding. Yesterday more projects exploded and it was all so bad that it gave me a raging headache that started around 1 and didn’t end until probably 8pm. I also wound up working late again.
I was in a foul mood when I got home and had a raging headache. Spawn, being very understanding (and knowing not to poke the bear) made dinner, so I ate, took a hot bath and went to bed early. And just as I started to fall asleep, the phone rang. Girl said "Oh, honey, I’m sorry, go back to sleep" and despite my best efforts, I laid awake for a good 4 hours or so before that was even possible… woke up late and rushed enough to not have time to pack a lunch or eat breakfast.
So before I left work I set up the coffee pot. Our regular guy who gets in early and makes the coffee is on vacation and I guess I’m next in line for doing it. Since we’re not supposed to use the tap water, it takes a while to fill the pot with water from the cooler, so I went ahead and did that. I figure, this will make the whole thing easier in the morning.
Yeah… it would have, except that some people (and I know who they are), at some point after 5, when I left, decided to make 2 pots of coffee and then leave half of each pot sitting out. They also left all their cups in the sink and grounds, creamer and sugar ALL over the counter. So I wash out the coffee pots. I fill the one with water. I go into the drawer to get the filter and the coffee and there are dry coffee grounds ALL. OVER. THE. DRAWER.
If I came home to a mess like this, Spawn would hear about it at a very high volume. If it wasn’t Spawn’s doing, I would probably chase the cats around. Coming into a mess like this at work, there’s very little I can do. I’m pretty sure I know who it was, but I can’t prove it, and the emails from high up have gone around about not leaving messes like this for other people to clean up, but it makes no difference. It’s also not a pleasant way to start the day… come into work to no coffee and someone else’s mess, which you have to (at least partly) clean up in order to have coffee at all?
And it seems petty, I’m sure, but it’s just one more craptastic piece to these 4 days and counting.