A situation at work is reaching critical time pressure and it's extremely frustrating for us to deal with. It's one of those cases where someone has forced an "improvement" on us which is in no way an improvement, and in fact is kind of a large step in whatever the opposite direction from improvement is. Because this system is so much more of a pain in the ass than the thing we're being forced to replace it with, we have not been particularly speedy about implementing it, and now the people who inflicted the thing on us (and did not, needless to say, give us a choice) are yelling at us about why we're not doing it faster.

This is a bit like being forcibly tied down so a man with a whip can flay your skin off and then having him angrily demand to know why you're not enjoying it more.

I started work on a story project that I knew I wouldn't be able to finish before the time when I needed to start the next Sleeper Squad. I try very hard not to stop work in the middle of a project, because it makes it very difficult for me to pick up where I left off later, but in this case I felt it was reasonably safe. Then, a couple of days into that project, I realized I had to interrupt it for another small project I considered to be of higher priority. So I've worked on that one for a couple of days. I'm not going to finish it tonight, but I probably will tomorrow.

There's probably some real-world news and all that but I've mostly been ignoring it.