I have a draft posting, which I started to write the day after the US election.  Obama won, no big surprise to me anyway.  I had written a bunch of stuff but had to save it as I got busy doing something else.  Now it just seems too long ago to post it.

Anyway, I didn’t sleep well last night - I finally crawled back into bed at 5 am to try and get some sleep.  I’m fighting off some anger regarding work.  It is irrational and I won’t say I’m overreacting but emotionally, I probably am.  There are so many small things in life that you take for granted and that make your life a little bit better.  So when they’re yanked away it is a bigger piss off then it probably should be.

I have a prime cubicle at work.  It has a window that overlooks the mountains, has an office in front of it so I have extra privacy and because it is by a foundation wall I have a larger space.  And late in the evening on Monday, our team lead emailed to say we’re being moved to the other side of the building, our team won’t be kept together, we’ll probably get middle of the room space (amongst some hundred other people) and if we have some “reasonable” (he put that in quotes) about what we need, to email him.  All of this is being done in order to close a lease at a different building and all of those people get to take our space on the North side. 

I get the cost savings.  But exactly why is it the people that are living in the space are the ones getting fucked over?  Oh, they need to stay together… but apparently, we don’t.  If there’s a window, it overlooks a busy street and ya know, condos.  And there’s 49 of us being moved and last I checked, all the window space on the other side was taken and if there is one, who gets to have it?

It’s just office space but it was handled so poorly that it just irks everything that wee bit more.  And I lost sleep over it because everything possible ran through my head on how I’d handle it at work on Wednesday.  Yeah, just fucking say good morning to me - I dare you!

And I was still in bed at 11:06 when the radio started it’s Nov 11 tribute to soldiers.  Reality is that someone has their life on the line right now.  It does give some perspective, although I can’t say that I’m not still totally pissed.  But today is not a day to be mad, it’s a day to reflect.

So to all our soldiers that fight for our country, past and present, thank you.  To those still abroad - Stay safe.  Take care of each other.  Someone back here can’t wait for you to come home.