It’s day 8 of the roof construction. We were told it would take 2 weeks. We knew it would be a major disruption. We know the crew is working as hard as they can around the Texas weather.
That said, I’ve got to vent. This is a whiny post. You have been warned.
I’m so sick of the roof construction. The dogs are stuck inside. They bark. People are hammering, pneumatic tools are going, and the level of noise is just constant. I’m stuck inside. I’m very set in my ways. This is driving me slightly batty.
It doesn’t help that our roof has been designed by some architectural maniac.
Just make a damn rectangle. What is this nightmare?
To top it off, one of the ebook retailers spontaneously rolled back some updates on our books, so the painstaking edits are all negated. We don’t know why. We are fixing it. Our website refused to migrate, and although that issue is now fixed, it took a whole day to sort it out. Now my made up language at Vulgarlang isn’t saving. I can’t access the save menu. My subscription order spontaneously self combusted through no fault of my own. My HEB account – gasp! – has somehow become so borked that I cannot add any methods of payment. I might have to get it deleted. I have to talk to support to do it.
I’m my own one woman magic wave. Everything digital around me is exploding. ::eyes her PC:: Don’t even think about it. How will I play Solasta if you croak? It’s the only thing that’s keeping me sane.
I have talked to various “support” so much in the past 3 weeks, it’s unreal. Last week and the week before, I had a Zoom every day. Every day. So much zoom. And support chats. All the support chats ever.
::stares::
Too much talking.
Orkin guy is outside spraying everything. The dogs are barking. It’s that or spiders and scorpions in the office.
Zen. There has got to be some zen around here somewhere.
And this concludes our Edition of Introverts Today. You might think from all the public appearances and lectures that I’m an extrovert. Nope, I’m an introvert trained in public speaking. And this introvert is seriously overloaded.
I feel your pain. For the last month I’ve been living with a gutted bathroom and no kitchen cabinets, courtesy of a leak in the walls. Fortunately I was not in the shower when the ceramic ceiling tiles crashed into the tub. But that started it all, walls ripped down to studs, a water bug nest discovered and destroyed and the kitchen cabinets on the other side of bathroom wall is slated to be replaced as well. I use my neighbor’s shower and I’m tired.
They say misery lives company and I’m sorry you’re going through this but you understand.
Yep.
This is my kind of whine.
I suggest a cool glass of something… non-alcoholic.
At this point, alcohol will just turn one into a sobbing, wet mess, exacerbated by a pounding headache from the egregious noise of power tools and thumping of hammers. So a cool, sweet drink, or soothing tea. Such opposites definitely attract.
Take your time.
I’m not going anywhere.
I’ll be in my dining room, reading the blog, poking through my email inbox of gigantic proportions and dreaming of a good Spanish red with a label that was obviously written by a computer translation program because no person would ever use the word “appellation” in a label description, in this century, of a wine from a respected 1864 Spanish winery. Perhaps because millennials would never understand it. I had to look it up myself and I still don’t understand why they used it. Much too old and vague a word for marketing wine today.
Mmm, still tasty, though. Just don’t read the label.
Salut!
I can SO relate. Roof is under tarp and our inspectors came to create chaos. My car died. Like dead-dead. Engine is kaput. Except I put A Lot of money into it trying to keep it running so that was pouring money down the drain. We had to defer our taxes as I am just over a 2 week long bout of Covid that made dealing with our taxes impossible without risking our older tax accountant. My laptop is a piece of crap that my company got me during 2021 when every electronic purchase was a crap shoot. On my laptop we got the crap in bulldozer loads but they wont replace it with a decent one. Yeah…. from one insane and miserably stressed human to another… hang in there. You are not alone!
Bless your Heart! I mean this in the best ways.
When I was doing the online college thing my internet was not talking proper to my CPU. I was on a short deadline. So I worked all day and then spent all night on tech support. My service call got bumped to 3 different over seas locations. Before they switched me to a tech located about 20 miles from the house who fixed it.
Sigh > shrug< Since I had a job to go to I rolled back to work and did it then cam home and worked all night to meet the deadline.
Electronics gadgets works great when they work. But it's a freaking hassle to fix something that was a provider's software malfunction.
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