The List of Very Bad Things

• The water line that supplies my kitchen sink has developed a bad leak. I can't call a plumber because I only get one day off a week now and today I was supposed to stay home waiting to do a phone therapy session which didn't happen because PayPal didn't clear the payment in time.
• Six day schedule at work.
• My new therapist apparently works better over the phone rather than e-mail, but I wonder if that's not a function of the cost involved -- a 1 hr. session is approx. twice an e-mail session. Which I'm paying out of my own pocket.
• Pursuant to that, we can't schedule it for next Monday because it's Memorial Day. Other times cannot be done due to scheduling conlicts, i.e., work, and incompatible time zones.
• Have you ever washed dishes in your bathtub? You should. Your back will never recover.
• I wonder if the whole new car thing is really worth it or would I be better off using the $5k for other things. Like fixing the house.
• My 'net computer Newton has a faulty CD/DVD drive and is currently in the shop to get it replaced, which will cost around $150-200.
• The other night while playing with Xandros on Newton, I happened to hit "Enable 3d effects." After watching Newton barf spectacularly I tried to reboot to disable it, and thus began a nightmare of trying to restore the system with a faulty CD/DVD drive, see above. I finally got it to make it all the way to the desktop this morning -- only to find all my e-mails, URLS, etc., wiped. So with the click of one button I destroyed my OS.
• Oh, did I mention that I probably lost the $85 I paid to do the phone therapy session because I rescheduled less than 24 hrs. from the session? I may be an overpaid postal worker but I'm not made of money. So all told I've already spent about $120 to be told I'm obsessive about writing. I can almost hear Shatner saying "Get a life."

Okay, so now maybe I can go to bed early for a change.