All the things I could be and should be doing:

Revising my novel. I put a couple of hours into it yesterday but it’s not exactly whizzing along and I’m not sure the revisions are improving anything.

Working out. I’m averaging every other day, maybe. I managed a big 20 minutes on Sunday. If I push myself to do twice that much, I feel like an Olympian. The air-conditioner is running in the garage right now to cool it down and I’m suited up. The hard part is showing up. I keep telling myself that something is better than nothing but nothing is a whole lot easier. I haven’t been to a yoga class in weeks.

Working. I actually have a lot of work lined up. I eke out an assignment or so a day but it’s not easy.

Gardening. I’m not much of a gardener, to understate the case, but I do get out there with pruning shears and tidy things up from time to time. But not now. Every day I pass a little ivy bed by the driveway that desperately needs a clean up. Every day I think about getting out there and snipping the straggly things down. It would take four minutes, max. Every day I forget all about it.

Sewing. On Sunday, I started making a skirt that should take about three hours. I’m managing about one seam a day.

Going to the supermarket. Poor Tom. It’s always up to him. I hate going to the supermarket. I don’t know why. We’re running out of everything we can’t buy at Costco and I can’t seem to care. I’ll just eat whatever is around until the cupboards are bare.

Putting away my laundry. I finished doing my laundry days ago. It’s still in the basket in the bedroom. I just rummage around in there for clean underwear every day and leave the rest of it sitting.

So what am I doing with my time these days? Jackshit.

Help.

Labels: frustration

Have you ever wished you could be a total asshole? Just say whatever you want to whomever you want to say it?

As outspoken as I am, I also bite my tongue a lot. Most of us do, no doubt. But don’t you wish, sometimes, you could just let it rip? Speak all those unspokens, loud and proud?

I know, I know. If you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything at all. Are there really people who don’t ever have a negative thought? What’s that like?

Now and then, all those unspoken, snide, critical totally assholic comments back up in my brain until I can’t believe that they aren’t making my skull bulge. Tom and I sometimes vent those wish-I-coulda-saids to each other, just to get them out of our systems so our heads don’t explode. That helps a little.

Some people don’t worry about stuff like that. They say whatever they want. We hate those people and call them total assholes. I don’t want people to hate me, most of the time. Sometimes, I think it wouldn’t be a big deal. Go ahead, hate me. At least my head didn’t explode.

Labels: frustration

So...because I never did convince Readyhosting tech support that my e-mail address was unreliable, I am dropping that address and ultimately, eventually, I'll drop that host altogether. Who needs the aggravation?

Anyway, a new e-mail address requires changing my address with all companies that send me notifications.

Among those is iBackup, which does off-site backup. (I don't trust myself to remember to back up so I have this company do it automatically every night.)

Theoretically, I should be able to just go into my profile and change my e-mail address there. Theoretically. Too bad it didn't work. So I contacted tech support.

Evidently, "This issue may occur, if the notification has not be update correctly."

Look at the rigamarole I have to go through simply to change my e-mail address:


Dear sdtex2001,

This is in reference with your Request Ticket Number: ST00082276.

This issue may occur, if the notification has not be update correctly.

We request you to follow the following steps to resolve the issue:
1. Login to the application interface with your login credentials.
2. Disable the existing notifications.
3. Navigate to task manager and kill all the process related to IBackup
for Windows.
4. Navigate to Add and Remove programs in Control Panel, Uninstall the
existing application.
5. Restart the system.
6. Download and install the IBackup for windows application from the
link below:
http://www.ibackup.com/ibwin/downloads/IBWin90502setup.exe
If you require the advanced backup features, We request you to download
and install the the advanced backup plug-in from the link below:
http://www.ibackup.com/ibwin/downloads/AdvBackupPlugin.exe

Once the application is installed, We request you to setup the email
notification again.

Labels: computers, customer service, frustration, outsourcing, tech support