Is chaos equilibrium?

It's been a serious seesaw of a day. For every bad thing, something good happened, and vice versa. It reinforced the idea that calm isn't the natural setpoint of the universe, but that chaos might be.

On Monday mornings, "first thing" for me and "at a reasonable hour" for morning types, we have our weekly staff meeting. Afterwards, I logged on to find that I couldn't connect to the network. That led to a few hours of working with various people to find the problem. The last person threw his hands up and said that it was a hardware problem, and that someone else needed to look at my machine. Meanwhile, I was seeing time slip away, and seeing myself working into the wee hours making up the time because we have a deadline tomorrow.
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Smile when you say that

I've been eating breakfast out as a bribe or compensation for getting up earlier because of the construction work. (After the construction work is over, I need to go on a serious diet.) After breakfast, I was consuming my second course of caffeine and nicotine, when a guy stops his car and says, "Smile. It can't be that bad."

I said, "No, I'm just tired." And didn't smile.

He said "Huh?" I repeated myself several times, and he kept on saying huh. It's possible that he really didn't hear me (I have a soft voice), but I finally wound up shouting it at him. I was genuinely mad at him by that point. Smile?

He was off on his own trip, saying stuff under his breath that I'm probably glad that I couldn't hear, and I started to blatantly ignore him. Eventually he drove away.

Why do (some) guys play the smile game? Are there any guys who are willing to answer that? I know that not smiling probably makes me seem unapproachable, but how does forcing someone to smile make them more approachable? Pissing me off with this game makes me even more unapproachable yet.

Growing my hair out might have been a mistake because I suspect that it makes me look younger (than I am and than I previously looked) and softer.

Otherwise, it was a good day. I'm still feeling clear and as close to normal that I've felt for the better part of a year now. I finished the online help that I was scrambling to finish, and it's in the product driver. I'm exhausted and plan to get a decent night's sleep.