In a snit

[muck_a_luck]

Well, it's been a bang your head against the wall kind of day. I am in a serious snit, but I'm not sure if it is hormonal anger I'm feeling or justifiable frustration over the fact that everything I have wanted to do today has resulted in me running up against some stupid obstacle.

Boss' feeding scanner won't cooperate with a large scanning project that was already stupid when a feeding scanner was available to do it, and is positively retarded if I have to hand feed the scanner on my desk. And we have the lovely new scanning digital copier and the scanning function isn't hooked up on it because Cellmate's boss has gotten HIS panties in a twist about the machine, so who knows when THAT will be available.

I switched e-mail software, hoping to get rid of the e-mail problem. When it didn't go away, I started trying to access our online customer service account, but something was wrong with the password or user name or something, because that wouldn't work. The only thing that's gone right today is that customer support in India was able to make my e-mail work. Except that as I was typing, Outlook closed for an unknown C++ runtime error. *mutters*

Meanwhile, at one point, when I shut down Outlook and brought it up, it downloaded my e-mail a second time. I do not want my e-mail deleted from the server, because I like to be able to pick it up from home. So I am gonna be pretty ticked off if there's something going on with Outlook that it isn't smart enough to identify messages it has already downloaded and not take them down again.

I was unable to import old messages from Eudora to Outlook or to export them from Eudora to Outlook, which is no big deal except that it was yet another thing I couldn't do.

I was unable to call American Express and get a straight answer about who their corporate agent is in Virginia. THAT was a practically farcical exercise, which for a certain part of the day was actually making me laugh, it was so funny. Any other day, and it would have been a joke.

I suppose I should be glad that the DMV exercise took less than an hour.

I think my mood is also due in part to two other things. I was reading one of my stories today and I really hated it. And I got some news about something else today that made me unexpectedly unhappy about some things in my personal life that are too personal even to share here.

Yeah. Looking back over this e-mail, I'm thinking there's a strong patina of hormones. Gonna make a note.

OK. Done whining.

Comments

[mresundance.livejournal.com]

Technology problems make for lots of suck.

And wanting to murder someone because of hormones is totally justifiable. I always want to kill somebody when my hormones start revving up. It's kind of scary and kind of awesome, mostly because I have even less patience for people's bullshit or stupidity.

I think people who menstrate should possibly go into seculsion together when they menstrate.

As long as the rest of population stays the hell away, it should be good.

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

I think it would be better if I could use my superhormonal powers for some good purpose. Isn't there some heinous criminal that needs to be whacked with a stick or somehing?

[mresundance.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Yaknow, we'd be really useful to interrogate people.

If they press charges, we plead hormonally induced insanity.

[alpha-strike.livejournal.com]

And yet, you should consider yourself blessed: It could be a lot worse*. Eudora/Outlook could have deleted all your unread emails from the server, for example. Or the C++ runtime error could have done something bad to un-backed up data on your hard drive. AG33 could have been sick at school.

And yes, as a matter of fact, I know someone who needs to be locked in a room with you after saying "Those pants don't make you look fat, it's your big butt that makes you look fat." I believe the violence would do you both good. Come to think of it, it would do me good, too. Can we arrange this?

Things will get better. Just remember that none of this is really that important. It's just work.

*That's what my boss just told me, anyway.

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

Please lead the way to the locked room. I have a large file to use for the bludgeoning.

Ha! I checked very carefully before I let Outlook loose for the first time to be sure the "Destroy all incoming mail" box was not checked! :D

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

I am blaming the phase of the moon. I don't even care what phase it's in, that has to be the problem. Nothing else can explain how so much *&^% keeps happening all over the place.

*slinks off to de-butter the fridge*

[mresundance.livejournal.com]

SERIOUSLY.

I noticed that too. The moon is - it's a CRAZYMAKIN' MOON.

wooo000hh. O_o

[lucky-sometimes.livejournal.com]

Not sure what's going on, but I'm thinking of you.

[ribby.livejournal.com]

I've had that sort of a month--Outlook has kept crashing every time I try to move something to my storage folders, and as a result, I've lost a *large* amount of email to the ether--some of which was fairly important. Grrr. Technology sucks, truly. But all this on top of everything else just wasn't fair to you--you have every reason to whine!

I hope today's better... *hugs*

~Kris

Office Equipment

[(Anonymous)]

You are so resourceful--but sometimes office machinery just needs to be tossed out the window onto the sidewalk to teach it a lesson.
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