miffy monday

*WARNING: serious piece of rant ahead*

It's turning out to be weirder and stranger as every minute passes on this already-blue Monday.

First thing I saw my parents in the morning, they started nagging at me about not washing my car last week, and being late for work... ranting on and on. I couldn't wait to step out of the house asap.

Next thing you know, I was at work trying to fix a bug I'd set aside last Friday. Turns out in the end that it was because I was stupid and MS Excel was too clever. There was a figure I'd seen in the spreadsheet to be rounded up. But the actual result is 3 cents less! Hence I did a manual summation of all the items and finally realised that the amount was correct all along! Only problem was, because the cell width was not long enough to display the full amount, Excel had rounded up the figure, thereby causing the non-existent 3 cents. Had I clicked on that cell earlier I would have realised the amount was right all along and that it was merely a presentation oversight. I was too dumb to comprehend that on a Friday evening.

Then before you know it, a colleague of mine approached me before lunch and said he wanted to treat me to coffee at the cafeteria at our building. Strange and perplexing indeed. But not as confounding as what he wanted to discuss with me about. He said that he's heard some people mentioning to him about how I was speaking ill of him behind his back. So he was here to clarify with me, in a sense, to thrash things out with me. This was really weird, as I don't recall ever speaking much about him with others, much less speaking bad about him at all! I spoke to some other guy I'm on better terms with, and he felt just as weird about this issue, because even he felt that I wasn't the type who'd do something like this. VERY perplexing. Definitely a misunderstanding. But strange in so many ways.

And then there was this really confusing user who can't get her access accounts right. Two very different portals with separate user accounts had their passwords reset for her. Her account for website A had a password reset. She managed to log into there. And at the same time, she tries (probably using her user details from website A) and fails to log into website B. We resolved that, she manages to get into website B, and then she has a problem logging into website A because it was locked! I know, confusing isn't it!? Let's hope I've settled her down with my last email, because my head feels like it's going to explode with what is feeling like an infinite loop!

Last but not least, moments after returning from lunch, my computer decided to act up. The screen failed to come on and the keyboard sounded like the system had hung (with its error beep sound on each key pressed). I checked the connections and nothing happened. What was worse was after I restarted the system, the fan suddenly powered up so loudly the colleagues around me all were pretty frightened that my computer might blow up! It was making all that noise that everyone was rather worried of sitting still until my desktop support colleague came over and decided it was best to restart the system. It was kind of scary to have happened. At least fortunately the fan decided to quieten down back to quiet-sounding normalcy and we returned to our work. I reckon my computer likes the vacuum cleaner and was trying to impress the lady with trying to speak vacuum-speak.

Like I've mentioned, it's a miffy monday. I've felt miffed and full of pent up frustration since this morning. I hope the second half will improve. There is a bit of tight-chested feeling but with all these weird stuff going on I probably shouldn't be surprised.