Yesterday was a success--sort of. My application for temporary handicapped parking was finally signed and I picked it up. Unfortunately the Cobb Co. License Office is closed on Mondays, so I couldn't pick up the tag until this morning. Of course when I arrived at work there were no handicapped slots available. So I limped in many more feet than I should have and probably compounded my problem by taking the stairs.

I tried, really I did. I went to the elevator and pressed the button. The doors opened with a squeak worthy of Inner Sanctum. Inside it looked the same as it has: grimy, with broken bits on the panel, dark, and breathless. I haven't ridden the thing voluntarily since August of 2000 when the doors stuck on me for a full minute. A minute isn't a lot unless you're as claustrophobic as I am, and this monster has been known to get stuck between floors. I rode the elevator at my HMO yesterday with no problem. Nor did the elevator at the building where James will be taking his upcoming classes bother me. But the one at work gives me the willies. I simply could not step between those creaky doors and instead climbed, slowly.

And when I went to finish the job I had started so long, long ago in January--the file I was using was gone. I hope it's a backup disk somewhere. I put aside other, pressing work with supervisor approval to work on that file for several long days. If it's gone, I intend to be very, very upset.

Yesterday was also a bit of a shock. I had my mother's birthday present with me and determined that if I could find a close parking space at the PO, I would stop to mail it. Amazingly, I did find a space near the door--then whiled away half an hour waiting in line--worse than Christmas! I also had wanted to stop at the Winn Dixie for bread for lunches. They have the best tasting white bread, "Dixie Darling," for a reasonable price; I've tried other markets' sandwich bread and it's usually depressingly dry or nasty tasting.

Surprise! The Winn Dixie was gone, replaced by a SaveRite. Sigh.

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