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Hey, there is an I Should Be Theme going on here... what the hell. Anyway, it's Friday and I should be happy as a pig in slop but I'm not. Don't know why. Actually, that is a lie, I probably have some inkling.

Could it be the fact that 2 times in one week I have had my pupils dialated in a search for why I see the world slightly slanted? It's something I have noticed for the last 5 years but it seems a little more pronounced as of late. I could rant about the state of healthcare and the bullshit referrals I have to get just to see an ophthalmologist and then the fact that I have to get another referral to see a neural ophthalmologist, but I wont. I'd be wasting my breath. The ophthalmologist seems to think I may have something called internuclear ophthalmoplegia which scares the hell out of me. Look it up on the net and you'll see why. The fact that it has been going on for as long as it has rules some causes out and of course, that might not be it at all, but I would like to get it squared away as soon as possible as to what the cause is.

Could it be the fact that I paid a heck of a lot of money to have a bunch of ceramic tile laid in my kids bathroom, kitchen backsplash and my master bedroom bath. What's to get upset about? Well, I was there for day one when they did the kids bath and the kitchen and I was fantastically pleased. Day 2, I had to go to the doctors (see above) so I wasn't around to talk to the tile people about designs for the master bath floor. Well, at first, they forgot they were doing a design on the floor. They started laying the tile when my wife saw what they were doing and had a cow. She then called me while I was sitting in the Eye Doctors office blind as a bat and told me what was going on. I then called the head tile guy, Moe and said... "you do recall us talking about putting a pattern in the floor". He said he never wrote it down. I said "remember when you took the sample tile we bought and arranged it on the floor in a diamond pattern? Hell, you even chipped the corner of one of the tiles, remember?" Moe says, "hmm". Anyway, normally, they would just pull up the tile and start over, but me in my high tech wisdom had an under tile heating system installed so you feet would never be cold stepping on it. It's controlled by a digital thermostat which is WAY cool. Problem is, if they tore the initial tile up, they would ruin the mat which cost about $200. So, they try to improvise and create a design in the floor where the tile hasn't been laid yet. Keep in mind all of this is happening with my wife trying to tell me what is going on over the phone while my eyes are stinging from eye drops and my cell phone keeps dropping out cause I am in a shitty cell phone area. Finally, they get my wife to agree on a design and then put it in. Meanwhile, I have told my wife, I trust you... if the design doesn't look right, just do it plain. She decides that I really wanted a design and even though it just looked ok, we should do it so I don't get upset (this is the fun of marriage). So, they install. Honestly, it looks ok, but would have looked better plain. The design isn't quite centered where it should be on the vanity, but again, there were limitations to what they could do. So, out of all three tile locations, our master bath turned out to be the one I least like. Sigh.

Could it be that I promised to have a complete redesign done on IEEE-USA's website a few years ago and have never gotten it done. Now, we actually set a deadline and I'll have to complete it next week?

Could it be that I have had a headache for about a week straight?

Who the hell knows.