the mellow tigger's musings

Apparently I only make year-end posts on bad years. I'm certain that 2013 was another year worthy of this tradition.

I'm unable to work this morning. My remote desktop session keeps giving me a solid black screen after connecting successfully. Websearching hasn't turned up a solution that works for me yet. I showered and got into the car thinking I would still drive in to work. Today's -24C/-12F temperature is keeping the oil thick as sludge, so the engine won't turn over. So here I am, supposed to work but can't. I really need to move to a warmer city, get a job within walking distance, or all of the above.

So, 2013 in review: leg injury that put me on crutches immediately, followed days after by blood clot that put me on crutches again, followed by a dead car that left me stranded and resorting to public transportation while hobbling around, no health insurance so I waited with that clot nearly a month until the pain was too high to endure any longer and finally went to the hospital, during this time my cat was persistently sick, followed by a job change that leaves me stressed out, then my car windshield cracked, my home computer motherboard died, my windshield wiper fluid turned into a block of ice so that I had to pull over during my commute and wash down my dirty windshield by hand, and now neither my computer nor my car is letting me work today.

It's been a very annoying and stressful year. I'm comfortable with having low standards, but I really could use an honestly "good" year for a change. Maybe 2014?

"It was, for me, the worst year in about 20 years.  Glad to see it go.  Hope 2008 is better."
- goodbye 2007, http://mellowtigger.livejournal.com/2008/01/01/


Well, I found a job, and I've been ever-so-slowly getting out of debt.  On my current payment schedule, I should be able to finish that project in December 2009.  That's a good thing.  I still can't afford to get sick, have T'Reese get sick, have car trouble, or have my computer fail again.  I still have no money to visit a doctor/repairman for any of these issues.

So 2008 was indeed better than 2007, but it was far from a great year.  I'd like to have a great year sometime before my years are over, but I don't mind too much since I'm at least moving in the right direction again.