Hard Day

This has truly been a lost day as far as work is concerned. I knew a storm was coming in so I cannot use the storm as an excuse. It has just been one of those days. I brought my van into work because I had an IOTI meeting starting at 11:30—no problem. The storm raged into the city at 9:30 am, the storm was a whiteout at times—sort of fun to watch. I got assigned to pick up one of the council members who does not drive, about 10:30. I was a little pissed mostly because this was a new experience and I had never had to give a council member a ride before. By the time I left to pick up Mr Stevens the storm was abating. I got turned a round once and missed the turn off to the Health Department-where Mr Stevens works. I got him back to the office no problem. Then I took off for my meeting.

I am such a mess I really do not understand how I have survived to the age I have. I went all the way over to the Buffmire building, transferred out of my seat into my power chair and went into the building to find I was in the wrong building—it seemed to take another to minutes to find the building I wanted was the Blind Center(division of services to blind) a number of blocks North of where I was. So, I rushed back to the van, transferred and headed for the blind center. To the Blind center in fairly good time, just a few minutes late for the meeting only to find the “up” switch on my drivers seat is broke—it would not move and I was then effectively trapped in my van. Luckily, I had my cell phone with me and had this realy strange argument with the switchboard operator at the blind center about having someone walk back to the conference room in the building and let someone know I was out front. This necessitated four separate calls—the operator insisted on giving me the phone number for the room but would not connect me or have someone go down to the room and let them know I was out front. I had to hang up and then to call into the meeting!!! I finally did get someone from my meeting who came out and got my data. I made my apologies and sped off.

Now I am heading South to Sandy Utah where my wheelchair van shop is located. Mobility Solutions is the place and Justin the owner always works with me and he did so today. 45 minutes and forty bucks later I am mobile in all ways and heading North to my office. I pull into my office parking lot and park my van in the “designated parking are(handicapped park) slots with enough room to download my wheelchair lift. Predictably a person zooms up and parks ,jumps out and runs into the building leaving me trapped in the van again. Luckily this person did not take long. I was downloading in about 15 minutes I finally get back to my office about 2:30 pm and I am exhausted, disheveled and ready to go home but I still have a couple hours to put in before I can head for home. I returned calls and took calls and related my experiences to my staff and caught my breadth.