A major project at work is falling apart.  One small, but absolutely critical, piece cannot be made to work.  I was fighting this all afternoon, fiddling with computer configurations and exchanging e-mails and phone calls with co-workers.  The project is already running late.  If it gets postponed again one or both of my October weekends with

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 will be in jeopardy.

In the middle of this comes an e-mail informing me of a new family problem, asking me to make some inquiries.  After doing so and communicating the results (interleaving all of this personal business with my work crisis) I learn this will cost us over $800.

And J has found another way to mismanage his affairs.  It is particularly  Irritating because it is a new manifestation of something we thought we had beaten.