Spent my entire day knee/neck deep in multiple Sun Cluster nightmarish catch-22s and meta database corruption hell... add the innocent and well intentioned and way too frequent queries of "how's it going?" My pat reply was a mildly churlish grin with, "um, not sure yet, could be a month or more..." After the look of shock starts to spread across their faces, I reply with a juvenile, "just kidding!" It works. Finally got everything completely unscrewed just in time for me to head out of work to pick up my little buddy, who was saying good bye to a sweet daycare worker who is headed back to Louisiana after having come here to start a new life. Sadly reminded me in many ways of how I met my ex, she being from Louisiana and coming here for a new life... but here boyfriend here in Colorado turned out to be a "dirt bag," in her words, and she's going back. I told her, she probably isn't going to miss the winter that is surely waiting for u...
"I’ll have the lot."
"A wise choice, monsieur! And now, ’ow would you like it served? All, uh, mixed up togezher in a bucket?"