It's been an interesting day. On the way to work this morning, I went to get coffee. I thought I'd be different and try a different place - it ended up being closed, so I went somewhere else, which was also closed. It took me a bit of a detour to get a coffee, finally, which then proceeded to spill onto my car. Somehow I eventually managed to get to work, only to find I had misplaced my work keys. I was too early so was locked outside. Eventually I got in and spent about an hour trying to work with IT people in Singapore to get me onto my computer with my keycard. By about 8:30am I had been asked three time whether something was going on. It's one of those things that if the day starts of frustrating, every little frustrating things just get magnified.
When I realize I'm just frustrating myself, I find the best thing to do is to get away from the computer and interact with other people. Went onto the field and learned a few things, then had some couple of discussions about a couple upcoming risks associated with my unit. By 5pm, things were looking less grey.
At night, someone's generosity gave me a delicious three course meal. It ended up being 5 courses as the main course and dessert was shared.
I also got an invitation to go to someone's place for Christmas today. I was so surprised. It was so out of the blue, and it was very kind. Opened my email and it was something along the lines of "If you're not doing anything for Christmas, come over to my place and spend it with my family, it's not a problem at all. It's bad enough that you're cold at home, but if you're cold and lonely, that's unbearable." Don't know him that well, so probably won't take up the offer, but I was really quite amazed for a few minutes. I guess I don't see or at least recognize such random acts of kindess very often these days.
Zzz....
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