Strange, strange morning.

Pulling out of my neighborhood, a work truck hit a pothole and dropped a fire extinguisher, and did so such that it's back tires hit the extinguisher and set it off. If I'd been paying less attention, I would've hit the extinguisher, which would've serious f-ed up my little Subaru.

Second, I get to work, and seemingly everything is broken. People are calling me left and right for various reasons, and people won't stay out of my cube talking about their ideas for science fiction stories (normally I'd be receptive to such things, but not when things are going awry). In trying to troubleshoot various systems, I find that my secondary development workstation, which has been running flawlessly for a few years, has suddenly seized hard.