Things are...

...awful beyond belief.

Actually, they are worse than that, and are getting worse still with each passing moment.

And that's all I can say without dipping into parts of my vocabulary I seldom use in public. I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't.

So I won't. No sense in injuring bystanders when I explode.

Things just aren't working out the way they were supposed to, Jim.