it wasn't friday but this morning it felt like the 13th

so walk into work and there's a smell
i look at my colleague, who sometimes
doesn't shower but that's a nope, i smell
my coat has it been
that long since i washed it,  examine my feet
nope, but the bottom of my
left sandal has the neighbor's
dog's shit on it. i gag, clean it up.
my first diagnosis is wrong
so i unneccesarily change a 32 pin ic
twice because
 the first time
i put it on backwards
after that all i had was one
capacitor to replace -easy right
at the end of the board but instead
the pad broke off and not only that i don't scrap it
at this point which is what i should do no
i keep working on it because i want to see
if my diagNOsis is correct and all i gotta do is run
this wire the thickness of hair about 3 mm along
the top of the ic i already removed
and replaced six weeks ago and when i get that in
a resistor swims out of place so while i'm
putting it back in its pads a completely different
capacitor/reisistor combo gets dislodged
and now i really really should scrap it but i'm a terrier
that won't let go of the mouse even though the house
is torn to pieces by now so take it off the mother board
and fix it right which is what i should have done
in the first place  it's almost lunch and i 've only taken care of
dog shit and one other thing then i solder it back
on to the mother board and go test it and it fails.
of course.
i put another board on it then.
at lunch i wasted
the whole thirty minutes
staring at the water in the pond
smoking for lunch again. i fixed
several things that had been lying
around for a few months
after ward but when i got home
i broke my favorite highball glass.


what else?