Last two weeks have been pure hell. Monday got off
to a rough start after having another disagreement with a shortline railroad, a railcar movement that should have been made 2 months ago was canceled again. To top things off started having problems with the new camera too. Then came motor vehicle accident number 1 the next day. Stuck and killed a deer with the car on the way home from work at 3am. The following day, the manure hit the fan when the railroad shut down because of severe weather. Tree and wires down everywhere, multiple people making multiple decisions that contradict each other and running around like headless chickens. Then came MVA number 2 on Thursday, stuck by a taxi cab while fueling the car at gas station. Took Friday off for a long weekend and caught a minor league baseball game. That was just the calm before the storm.
Over the weekend figured out the camera problems was dirt on the sensor. Not a big deal if you have an SLR but this is a point and shoot.

Monday the fun and games started with the insurance company. What a mistake calling them, lost days pay because of their fun and games. Maybe it was me but also dealing with Canon Customer service did go much better, was told to send them the camera for warranty repair work. Tuesday started off with another one of those "we had a derailment" phone calls. Then the next day was more equipment troubles and with it being close to a full moon all the lunatics were out and about. Thursday, turned into a 15 hour day on the rails, Outlawed on the hours of service, then took another 3 hours to get back to the terminal. Slept in the car was worth the drive home because by time I got home it would be time to turn around and go back to work making Friday a long day.

The weekend got off to a late start after sleeping in. After catching up on office stuff, only got half of the things I needed done taken care of. I had hoped to get caught up on everything today (Sunday). Not a chance in Hell. After going to bed late and not sleeping very well I got another one of those phone calls at 9am. This time it was that my father had had an accident while mowing and put a 2 inch steel hook though his hand from the grass catcher. He put the steel hook through his hand between the ring finger and pinkie bones are about where the life line is the palm of your hand and got it around the bone. I'm all for seeing my old friend from my fire and EMS days but not under these circumstances. Spent 9 hours at the trauma center and everything went well. I wasn't allowed to attend the operating session in the OR their reason being that I hadn't been in the OR in almost 10 years.

My black cloud with bad luck has been following me. I just did think the storm would last this long. This week is going to be a long week.