8:30 - Arrive at office, check e-mail, check voicemail, etc., etc., etc.

8:45 - Proofread changes to client's website, send DiamondGirl multiple e-mails outlining the things she's forgotten to upload or just not done. IM exchange wherein she makes it clear she's tired of doing "hourly" work for us now that she has a new job. I refrain from mentioning that I told her when she agreed to it that she was crazy.

9:15 - Go to bathroom, take packing case down to car, prepare glass of ice water for road trip.

9:30 - Head out on trip, realize I have no idea where I'm going, return to office, MapQuest destination, leave again.

9:45 - Drive north for several years while I contemplate whether or not I woke up in a Hell dimension this morning. Eventually the sight of a Starbucks sign convinces me that I'm not in Hell, just getting too close to Wyoming.

10:55 - Arrive at destination, make contact with client and find out locations of products to be retrieved.

Refrain from cursing Bernie (out loud, anyhow) as I realize he's spread the 17 product boxes over seven locations in what has to be the world's hilliest fairgrounds. Demand and receive permission to drive onto fairgrounds, so I don't have to haul 195 lbs worth of equipment around.

11:05 - Discover I've locked my keys in my car. I was wrong. It is a Hell dimension.

11:25 - Locksmith arrives and lets me into my car. I pack the products I've collected so far into the trunk.

11:30 - 12:37 - I walk halfway down the fair site to "the big tent" only to discover that the padlock key in my pocket doesn't fit the lock on the product boxes. Return to car and retrieve different lock. Halfway back to the "big tent" I remember that I received permission to drive onto the grounds. Return to car, drive to site, get product boxes. (Glance in mirror and realize that not stopping for more water on the drive was a bad idea. Based on my coloring, I can't be too far from yet another minor run-in with heat exhaustion.)

Retrieve product boxes from the other five locations, then return to first location as I realize I forgot one product box. Many bits and pieces are tossed loose into the car. Where did Bernie hide that other product case?

In spite of temperatures climbing over 95, the lack of shade or air conditioning, the absence of ice water, and the presence of far too much dirt that has the unmistakable pong of dried cow chips, I do not run over the six children who have decided that fun equals walking as slowly as they can move side-by-side down the driving lane, laughing over their shoulders at any cars that get stuck behind them.

12:45 - Return to client office to demand and receive the other packing case they "forgot about" when I was there earlier. Stop to pack all of the loose product boxes and accoutrements into this packing case.

2:00 - Arrive back at office, still flushed and feverish in spite of car's A/C and a huge glass of ice water procured along the way.

Unpack debris from car and dump into shipping room. Suck down more ice water.

2:30 - Write long, whiny blog entry about my sucky day.

And yes, there was a dead skunk.