Things that make me go … grrrr

1. Unsolicited remarks about prairie dogs being bad for the environment and that plague is nature’s way of thinning them out.

2. I knew exactly three things about leaf blowers, and am absolutely hopeless at troubleshooting in the field when machinery breaks down because I don’t actually understand how these darn things work. Today, I know exactly four things about leaf blowers.

3. That I kinda bounce off a shovel when I jump on it, trying to dig into dry, compacted dirt.

4. My strategy for dealing with stress by working harder so I’m too exhausted to think, doesn’t work as well as I’d like it to.

5. Data checking.

6. I have to unscrew eight things just to replace a headlight in an old Jeep.

7. Dropping a screw after I’ve unscrewed eight things to replace a headlight in an old Jeep, for the second time, because each headlight decided to go defunct one week apart.

8. Old maps that don’t correspond to the lay of the land.

9. That I’m not more excited about going back to school.

10. Summer’s almost over.