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Jan. 10th, 2012 01:31 pmOne of my publishers just described my last week so perfectly: she pointed out that the elephants have stampeded and now the ants are swarming. So many small things keep going wrong!
I've been troubleshooting madly and a few things are solved. I have had to give up on my old email client (it would send, but not receive) and have set up Thunderbird. I can't get my main email address set up on Thunderbird and can't send from my ANU account from anywhere except the web. I've now got light in the bedroom, but the kitchen and the refrigerator lights both need replacing. I've found a temporary solution for the death of the loungeroom curtain hooks, but am not tall enough to effect it, or to change the kitchen light for that matter, but the latter is moot because I have nothing to replace it with until I next run messages*.
And this is where I give up listing. There are more things, but I can either troubleshoot or I can work or I can complain. Some of the problems (the physical ones, for instance) will pass when they're ready. I've troubleshot and now it's time to work until dinnertime. Tomorrow I'll run some messages and then see what else is possible in the way of dealing with those pesky ants. I've run out of my allocated time for complaining.
*Because I don't drive, it's not just a matter of nipping up the street for small things. It takes at least an hour, and usually two or three. Since this eats into worktime, I save things up and run a bunch of messages at once. I took a half day to run messages on Sunday, and can't do the same until I've done enough work to warrant all that time out. The price of working from home is putting work ahead of small problems. During term time I can run most small messages on the way home from teaching on Wednesdays - it dents my time much less.
I've been troubleshooting madly and a few things are solved. I have had to give up on my old email client (it would send, but not receive) and have set up Thunderbird. I can't get my main email address set up on Thunderbird and can't send from my ANU account from anywhere except the web. I've now got light in the bedroom, but the kitchen and the refrigerator lights both need replacing. I've found a temporary solution for the death of the loungeroom curtain hooks, but am not tall enough to effect it, or to change the kitchen light for that matter, but the latter is moot because I have nothing to replace it with until I next run messages*.
And this is where I give up listing. There are more things, but I can either troubleshoot or I can work or I can complain. Some of the problems (the physical ones, for instance) will pass when they're ready. I've troubleshot and now it's time to work until dinnertime. Tomorrow I'll run some messages and then see what else is possible in the way of dealing with those pesky ants. I've run out of my allocated time for complaining.
*Because I don't drive, it's not just a matter of nipping up the street for small things. It takes at least an hour, and usually two or three. Since this eats into worktime, I save things up and run a bunch of messages at once. I took a half day to run messages on Sunday, and can't do the same until I've done enough work to warrant all that time out. The price of working from home is putting work ahead of small problems. During term time I can run most small messages on the way home from teaching on Wednesdays - it dents my time much less.