So Juls asked me how my day was going.

[azurelunatic]

I thought I'd share.

Today I am shoving ducks into a configuration such that their points could be assumed roughly linear. I am assisted by my general technical knowledge, and hampered by the fact that the working printer is a minimum of one flight of stairs away (and the choice for the rest of the hill is either another is another full staircase and two smaller sets, or a painfully sloped driveway), and this morning my choices were to go around the large delivery truck positioned to block the path (with curb cut) or to go down the remainder of the (painful) hill and up yet another flight of stairs (the front door stairs for the office are sort of optional as there's a side door and then the door to the rec room where the printer is). I opted for around the truck and playing tightrope on the curb and balancing with my cane, because stairs, ew.

(If I wind up on wheels, I'm moving.)

And then their version of IE is painful and antiquated, and their version of Adobe Acrobat Reader also, giving me various warnings about too-new file types that may not work well, and that's entirely without considering the I9 (which didn't open at all in that version) (any iteration of the I9 I tried, I thought "Oh, I'll just download a fresh one since that one got corrupted!" but noooooo) and then the office lady said to just email it to her, whereupon I found out that IE was intermittently crashing (I suspect faulty hard drive on account of the messages) and furthermore does not "browse" to your fucking flash drive upon which the thing is stored, WHEREUPON I TYPED IN THE FUCKER BY HAND, AS ONE DOES, which was a good thing because drag-and-drop is not supported by that version of IE.

But I have my fucking paperwork to sign and scan now.

Comments

[1_mad_squirrel]

Sounds like you deserve the reward of your choice.

[azurelunatic]

It turns out that Hobnobs are an excellent substrate for strawberry shortcake, lacking other items.

[bzero]

Ugh. That sounds truly frustrating and horrible. B(

[flyingthesky]

I have actually not been able to get IE to work on any of my machines since version, oh . . . 6? Was that what my XP machine came with?

I have no idea. All I know is that IE gives me headaches no matter what and no one should have to deal with IE. :(

[azurelunatic]

Not as bad as it could be! I'm having a relatively good day otherwise, just that was one long exercise in various flavors of headpounding.

[azurelunatic]

They're getting a new computer for the rec room in about a month.

[ephemera]

argh - techno-joy-joy-joy!

At least it's done now?

[bzero]

Sounds like it! I have days like that, but yours took the cake!

[azurelunatic]

The actively hilarious part came later in the day when I clearly was hungry enough for my dexterity and decision-making skills to be affected, but not *feeling* hungry -- chemically hungry but not mechanically? -- and I managed to lose the garlic for my garlic bread, and in the search I caused a cascade of kool-aid envelopes to descend upon me, and then upended the packet of taco seasoning all over everything. It turned out that the kitchen rug had eaten the garlic powder, which explains why I did not find it at first, but does not explain why it was on the floor.

[azurelunatic]

It's done! My papers are sent in!

[bzero]

Oy. I have been especially fumble-fingered today, although I have no good reason for it. I almost dropped my laptop twice, and knocked things over when I got to work, too. Spent the morning getting oatmeal out of the carpet beneath my workdesk. *facepalm*

[azurelunatic]

Oh man. Oatmeal and carpets.

[bzero]

I know, right? *lulz*