It's been a fairly long day as far as long days go, and the problem is that it's not over yet. I finally have a bit of room to breathe, though I expect that things will pick back up pretty soon. Unfortunately, my brain started melting out my ears somewhere around 6:30pm, so making it until quittin' time is going to require much sugar and caffeine intake on my part. I'm trying to contain my irritability and the fact that my concentration level right now equals that of a mosquito's.

On the up side, I just bought some Dots out of the vending machine in the break room. I put my dollar in the machine, made my selection, the machine gave me the Dots, spit my dollar back out and gave me change. So I ended up ahead on the deal. There is some kind of zen Karma at work in the candy machine.