Today was a lousy day because I bruised my finger twisting the bloody Bus pin pin into a makeshift bridge for the battery compartment of my megaphone.

Today was a great day because I fixed my megaphone, allowing one of the busloads of people trekking to the state capitol to introduce themselves to each other, and thereby justifying my EE degree.

Today was a lousy day because it's terribly dry out, and that makes my fingers uncomfortably dry.

Today was a great day because it was again t-shirt weather in February. (Don't tell the Californians. We have enough of them up here already.) The 2,500 people we helped organize on the steps of the capitol seemed to appreciate the sunshine too.

Today was a lousy day because I hurt my fingers removing duct tape that was holding coalition partners' banners to our bus.

Today was a great day because our rally likely changed the legislature's funding levels for our starved schools - to the order of 400 million dollars. And one of our coalition partners bought me a rather tasty meal.

Today was a lousy day because I hurt my finger popping off a rough hold at the Boulder Joust at Stoneworks.

Today was a great day because I eventually redpointed that route, and won me a Trango Cinch autolocking belay device.

Basically, just ignore the what the fingers say. Life's a peach.