09:48 PM
Rants & Whines alice's terribly bad, horrible no-good day

Yesterday, I ran around all day but the worst of the financial stuff got taken care of so I came home tired but figuring I could go to bed early and sleep and then today I could relax a little, do up my resume, make some appointments with the temp agencies, get the appointment with the shrink for a new drug, do a couple errands, get the laundry done, color my hair since the hair cut turned out great and then settle in to watch my favorite Thursday sitcoms and ER.

First I sleep badly, waking up a bunch of times for various reasons, by 6:30 I have a nasty headache at the base of my skull from a muscle spasm in my neck, I toss and turn a bit more, I finally get up. I go out into the living room and find that one of the cats has pooped and peed on the couch. Lugging pillows off, taking off covers, soaking it in the shower, hauling it out to the laundry room, all of which does absolutely nothing to help my neck and head. And I only have one muscle relaxer left and this kind of spasm takes at least two to get rid of it.

So I rearrange stuff on the couch, throw some blankets over the empty half, shove the stuff I usually have on the other cushion (mouse and pad for second computer, remotes, coaster for drinks, etc.) in various places, everything's out of kilter and I feel crappy. I muddle about for a bit, get something to eat and some coffee to make sure I don't get a migraine on top of it all. And it's cold and raining and when I went out to the laundry room I was wearing my just washed and cleaned slippers and now (in spite of the rubber soles), they're all wet inside and I can't wear them and my feet are freezing and the cats are walking all over me cause they don't have their usual place to lay down (and getting no sympathy from me since it's one of them's fault in the first place).

Then my webhost decides to screw up mail. Their server starts giving the "cannot find owner for this domain" when I try to pop mail. This is on the domain where I host 100+ email accounts for other people. And the only email account I can connect to is the default one for the domain and suddenly mail for everyone is dumping into the default account, what the hell???

Support answers and oh great, it's Abbott and Costello playing who's on first with me aka Max and Fred who always ask for the same info that I just gave them and never fix anything. Sheesh. No, I don't want to disable the default account, that will just make all this mail bounce. We did this last october, remember? You two guys, the same responses from them and it didn't work then so it won't work now, this is something wrong in your server, go fix it. I want the mail delivered to the perfectly valid email addresses that it was sent to. This is now a big problem and it's going on for over two hours and I've got 150 emails in the default account, go look at them.

The mail error finally stopped after about three hours but mailing lists are still broken, the support guys disappeared. I guess I'll try posting before I go to bed and see if I can get lucky and get Dave the intelligent common sense guy who fixes everything right away without asking stupid questions. Yes I do realize that support at any place is a very difficult job and usually I have nothing but kudos for people who do that work but I'm not kidding about Abbott and Costello, I swear those two are doing it for kicks and sitting back laughing like that vid someone put on the net.

Then I turned on my second computer to let it to do the automatic backups with FTP Voyager and what do I get, "FTPVoyagerShed error, close, details". Reboot, same thing, reinstall the damn program.

And the pillow is still drying in the shower, I need to get the covers out of the dryer, I didn't get anything done, I called in a refill of my muscle relaxer but the doctor didn't get the approval there so I couldn't pick it up this evening, my headache only went away about an hour ago so I never got the calls done or my resume done or the errands or the rest of the laundry and I was too tired an distracted trying to figure out the mail problem so I never got to watch the shows I wanted to see and I know things could be much worse but it's still a terribly bad, horrible no-good day.