It wasn’t the best of days, but for some reason I’m not feeling all that well. Perhaps my dinner isn’t setting right.

Last night I went to sleep late and I was woken up by sirens! Apparently I slept through the gunshots, but a guy caught someone peeping in at his girlfriend and gave the alleged peeper a beat down. This happened on the other side of the school from where I live. The alleged peeper was armed and fired some errant shots and I don’t think anyone was hit. The news tonight said the fight went on for 20 minutes. The alleged peeper looked like hell in his mugshot on TV, and the boyfriend seems to have broken his hand.

So today at Megacorp, we found out how confusing it is to not have a manager. Our manager bailed on us last week. He’s known for a month that he’s transferring out and he’s been gone for a week without telling us that he’s not coming back. He said he was on a “special project” but really he secretly switched jobs. And today we had a divisional meeting where we were told that our group was targeted for reassignment. Hard to know what that really means when your manager is gone. Fortunately, we have managers “up the chain” who are going to let us know what they know. Well, a little of what they know because they can’t tell us everything. That’s the nature of things. So this means that my sister should really figure out what she wants for her birthday (which was back in August but she keeps changing her mind about what she wants) while I still have a job.

I think I just bought my sixth Mac of the year (two were for my sister and brother-in-law’s) just now. A friend is getting me a discount – a legitimate discount! – and I should have a laptop within a week or so, I bet. Whoopee!