The Longest Journey Begins With The First Step.........

Monday the 8th of Jan and today has been a pig of a day. It started out ok with a two hour session on the SS City & Guilds wrestling with spreadsheets level two where I really made some progress. It began to go tits up when I got home and tried to find a receipt for a present that I had bought for my wife which needed to be returned due to its unforeseen scratchiness (it was a woolly item not a cat) Knowing my predilection for purchasing useless gifts I had very carefully checked after Christmas that I still had the receipt in my wallet which I did but when I looked for it today it was gone. I had receipts for everything that I had purchased in the last three months which included newspapers, petrol and postage stamps, but not the one I needed, the only one I should have kept. After turning the house upside down we decided to go to the store anyway and see if they would still exchange the errant gift which is when I found that I had also lost my glasses, the ones that I use solely for driving. I don't know why losing or misplacing items annoys me so much but it does, of all the small misfortunes that can be visited upon an individual, losing stuff in the confines of your own home annoys me the most. The shop did offer an exchange for the present and I am able to drive without my glasses but I'm still not happy.

My human contacts today included several officers of the Star Ship City & Guilds, a very helpful shop assistant, and my long suffering other half, the stoical Mrs N. My deed today was to drive the aforementioned paragon of virtue to the shops in order to swap her present for something a little less scratchy and my thought today is never put something you don't want to lose in a safe place because that's where things go missing from first.