A mighty birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY bob_the_mighty!!

Happy Birthday to Bob! I hope you have an awesome birthday, wherever you are! *hugs* I miss you.

grumble.

I was given a task yesterday at the day job, and I pushed through a third of it. Last night I had an "a-ha" moment--I realized I could use the VLOOKUP function in Excel to cut off about a third of the remaining time involved in the project.

This morning I spent an hour and fifteen minutes fiddling with LOOKUP, VLOOKUP, and even INDEX/MATCH and could not get the bastard to work properly. (I have a feeling that it's because I absolutely have no choice about storing numbers as text in the document, and somehow, when it's trying to match them, it's either a) thinking the numbers for the array aren't "sorted" and therefore it balks, or b) the reference to a cell is making the texty-number all sad and useless.)

So I was thirty pages short of finishing. I volunteered to come in tomorrow, thinking that they wouldn't bother with it, but they want me to. Sigh. (If I had just not spent that time trying to work smarter, lol...)

My two options:

1) Go in and work a half day, which (theoretically) leaves me time to do my errands, like going to the post office, working on Etsy/eBay stuff, packing boxes, buying pads, and going to the grocery store. However, then I have to drive in by myself (my sister is working a full day) and that's a big gasoline draw. And I'm so damned tired and sleepy because I've been writing (er, Riptide stuff) and I'm all full of story thoughts and I can't sleep, and my period started today, so I'm even more tired, and I don't want to get up and go in.

2) Go in and work a full day to save on gasoline and make some $. House, after all. But I'm so tired. And then I wouldn't have time for the errands. Poor Husband would have to do the post office stuff and he's already been running ragged this week. Plus, I'm on my period and I don't want to sit there all day during the worst day of my period. wah.

I've decided on 1. Plus, I can run and drop something off to a friend whose store is very near work, and I think she'd be pretty geeked about it.

*yawn*

My favorite set of Knight Rider summaries yet.

• Michael Knight and KITT must join forces with Thomas Cole and team VIPER, to defeat the greatest foes of the Knight Rider universe. Uh...who, exactly, are their "greatest foes"? Scrapyard Man? Clogged Air Intake Boy? Rusto?


• [Michael:] "It was terrifying. He turned all your power, your strength, everything you are against me. Clinging on to the car for dear life, having it throw me into that snack stand, pretending to be dead in case it came back to finish the job…." NOES! Not a SNACK STAND! *gnashes teeth*


• hahaha! KITT sulks because Michael takes off the wristwatch/commlink that allows them to communicate and lets some girl wear it.

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