TODAY SUCKED.
Mar. 5th, 2010 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valis2- Some of today's events:
- Woke up feeling sick. Sinusy, icky sick. It's gotten a little better but not totally great. boo.
- Turns out I might have sent the wrong table of contents to the publisher for a friend's book. omg.
- I set up a friend's business email so he could use gmail as his primary inbox, and through a stupid mistake on my part it sent 180 of his private business emails to one of his employees before I could stop it. OH MY GOD. I won't even get into how long it took just to get it to work in the first place, and it claimed not to be working, so I logged out and then got a frantic phone call from him ten minutes later because, well, WORKING TOO WELL AND STOP THE MAIL NOW.
- I finally managed to wipe my external hard drive. I tried to do so last night, but it claimed it would take three hours, and three hours later it was still claiming it would take two hours. So I canceled it and did it this morning instead. It took longer than three hours, and then after it was done, I went to make a new backup using the new software I purchased, and I couldn't get past the Select Archive Location screen. The helpful message said to pick a name for a new backup, or select an old name for an incremental backup. Since this was a new backup, I picked a new name, which greyed out the Next button. Every. Single. Time. I tried every variation. I checked the help files. The feeling of being without a backup? Entirely without a backup? And unable to make a new backup? Yes, I did melt down, rather spectacularly. Eventually I sorted it out, but it took forever and made me crazy.
- It took three and a half hours just to get one listing on Etsy. In fact, all of my Etsy listings today have taken too long. I can't seem to get my pictures to upload.
- I was feeling good about my story this morning, but suddenly this afternoon I felt the rollercoaster take a giant roll downward and I looked at the 45,000 wordcount and felt this enormous panic, like I've turned this into some horrid bloated epic that is so bloated with bloat that it just doesn't work.
- I was nearly done editing a batch of pics and Photoshop crashed on me, losing all of the work I'd done.
- I host my eBay pictures on my website and once every month or so I go through and remove the old ones. I removed several and then thought, hmm, is this the right date? What's going on here? And then I realized that, no, that wasn't the right date and I'd just deleted a bunch of my current eBay pics and then I had to go through and figure out which ones they were so I could reupload them.
- I told Husband all about my day in great detail and how awful it was. Then I sat down, wanting to drink some chai and chat and maybe look at the story again, and that was when I suddenly realized that some of my eBay pics weren't working, even the reloaded ones, and then I noticed that the number seemed wrong. I number all of my pics (stainedglass3, stainedglass4, mylittlepony32, etc.) and I recognized that one of the numbers was last week's number. And then I realized that I somehow never put the new pics in for this week's auctions. I've never done anything like that before and I had to go and edit all of the listings. There are two with bids and I have no idea what I'll do--I might just cancel them.
I think I could have handled one or two on the same day. But all? Holy cow. And I even feel like I've left some things out.
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Date: 2010-03-06 04:25 am (UTC)*hugs in return* Thanks so much for the sympathy!
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Date: 2010-03-06 04:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-06 04:25 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2010-03-06 04:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-06 04:26 am (UTC)grah. Well, it's nearly over. That's the good part.
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Date: 2010-03-06 04:25 am (UTC)I hope tomorrow is a *way* less sucky day.
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Date: 2010-03-06 04:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-03-06 05:13 am (UTC)Man, practically everybody I know is sick right now! That sucks. I hope you feel better soon! Here's a happy icon for you.
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Date: 2010-03-06 04:19 pm (UTC)I love the icon! Thank you!
*hugs*
Date: 2010-03-06 06:33 am (UTC)Did you ever see Trilogy of Terror or Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders where some kid gets an evil doll? I bet someone gave you an evil doll. XD An evil Snape doll or something bwah ha HA HA HA
it totally wasn't me who sent that to you
jk lots of hugs, I'm sorry you had a crappy day!! :(
Re: *hugs*
Date: 2010-03-06 04:20 pm (UTC)haha!
Thanks for the hugs, they're so much appreciated!
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Date: 2010-03-06 08:22 am (UTC)*HUGS*
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Date: 2010-03-06 04:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-06 05:02 pm (UTC)You do have to do something about those auctions that got bids with the wrong pics, though. We did that once and I wrote to the bidders, told them the pics were wrong when they bid and asked them to look again and see if they wanted them. One person stuck with it and one cancelled his bid, which doesn't look good, but sometimes you have to eat one.
I hope today is better.
*hugs*
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Date: 2010-03-06 05:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-03-06 05:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-06 06:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-06 10:50 pm (UTC)And in....
...and out.
It's all going to be okay. Maybe tomorrow, maybe in ten years, maybe in an hour. It's all going to be okay.
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Date: 2010-03-06 10:55 pm (UTC)Today's better, though. I mean, how could it not be, after that?
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Date: 2010-03-09 07:35 am (UTC)(late, I know, but cuddles are always good, yes?)
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Date: 2010-03-09 12:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-10 07:39 pm (UTC)*hug*
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Date: 2010-03-10 10:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-27 03:19 am (UTC)That sounds like a Most Annoying Day.
Glad improvements happened. ;p
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Date: 2010-04-01 12:28 am (UTC)