It’s a Monday after a long trip south, so naturally I’m sleeepypants. I began my day with a stroke of good luck:
In my haste to clear off the train this morning, I managed to drop my hat somewhere in the aisle/on the seat. Having realized this as soon as I got up to the main waiting area, I rushed back down the stairs to see if I could find it. The train was empty and the doors were shut. I ran down the platform until I saw a conductor inside, getting ready for the next trip. He was holding my hat! I knocked on the window, pointed to the hat, myself, my head, and all was well.
Another small happiness was that I wore my wind-blocking beast coat, long johns, fleece boots, and a scarf around my head and was able to laugh at the icy wind which blew me bent. No one undressed me with their eyes, but neither did the wind penetrate my layers.
The universe has balanced all of this good fortune by killing our car. P arrived at work this morning with all alarms and dashboard lights going off and opened the hood to find it had vomited oil all over itself. Off it gets towed to Erik, Miracle Mechanic of München (well, he seems vaguely Germanic), who shall restore it to its former state of grudging mobility.
In other news, cheers to Assers, who begins her first day of corporate gruntiness today. May she find good coffee and cooperative office machinery.