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Server?
May 21st, 2010Yesterday I endured a fairly long and combative meeting with a client regarding design aesthetics on a nearly-finished website and was really hoping to put things to rest with a demo of the CMS and a removal of the “coming soon” page. Sadly, after 45 minutes of arguing to keep the design as it is the server decided to crash so I spent the next 15 minutes pointlessly clicking around. We decided there wasn’t anything left to do so we’d have to meet again next week. Quite literally as I was walking out the door I checked the site from my phone and it was back up. WTF?
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Perfect Timing
May 20th, 2010As you may know by looking at my posts from last August my landlord and his family moved into the converted attic above us last year. It made our apartment considerably less awesome and was one of the major contributing factors to cause us to look for a new place this year. This morning, the day after I turned in a check and application for another apartment, we get a note on the door that he’s moving out. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH. I just want to be done with the apartment hunt. I’m curious to know what their plans for the converted attic are since it’s not really a place of its own. If we were to stay, would it be vacant? If we were to move, will they just find the next lucky batch of 4 people to live there? Most importantly, why couldn’t this have been made known about 2 weeks ago?
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The Great Hunt
May 19th, 2010Apartment hunting is the worst thing in the world. It’s such a roller coaster ride as seemingly awesome places look incredibly terrible in person and the so-so places online turn out to be brilliant. It sucks finding one incredible place only to find out they don’t accept pets or that the rent is increasing above your budget. In our case, we found a nearly perfect place and then realized it was perched right over the apt building’s garage door. Yikes. That’s probably no good. We’re going back tonight to take a look. Hopefully this works out.
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Still Tired
May 12th, 2010I slammed my finger in the door leaving the house, I biked 2 miles through 40 degree weather, and I had a coffee and donut when I got into work and I’m still falling asleep. Seriously, I need more sleep tonight.
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Self Control
May 6th, 2010In addition to my new routine of 3 beers on a Wednesday at Von Trier I also tacked on some tequila and whiskey last night and ended up falling asleep on the couch. I woke up at 4:30 and finally went to bed, only to wake up 2 and a half hours later. That’ll be more fun than I’ll have this weekend since I have quite a bit to actually do.
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Nice Day
May 5th, 2010It was raining a bit this morning so I took the bus instead of biking. BIG MISTAKE. It stopped raining as soon as I picked up the bus and it’s been an awesome day ever since.
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A Fraud
May 4th, 2010Just One Day Without Failing is approaching its 1-year Anniversary so I put in the order to renew the domain name for another year. Sadly, this $9.69 purchase was detected as fraudulent by my credit card company, sending me into a few days of credit card tedium. I suppose the credit card guys though even I wasn’t dumb enough to waste money on something named Just One Day Without Failing but boy were they wrong.
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Purchasing Power
April 30th, 2010I have none. I decided to make two major purchases this week and so far have failed at both.
The first was replacing my 5-year-old free cell phone with a new iPhone – my first foray into smart phones and into Apple products I actually own. So far fail. My wonderful girlfriend and I decided to add a line to her family plan for me and just pay with my credit card. The sales rep ran it through and everything seemed fine but a day later there was still no confirmation email. We called back to find out using my credit card wasn’t working and myriad other things were screwed up. Hopefully the phone arrives by the end of the week.
The second purchase is my own reseller hosting account so that I can provide hosting for my clients. Once again, there seemed to be a problem with using my card and the process was delayed a day. Now that it’s clear all of the login links they sent me seem to fail.
I may make a third major purchase soon – a new bike to replace the one that insists on breaking down on me every single week.
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Same Old Story
April 28th, 2010Ok, so this blog has turned into being only about my commutes to and from work, but I’ll be damned if they’re not full of inordinate amounts of fail. After my bike fell apart last week I pieced it back together and ended the week well. I thought I’d finally have a problem-free week but on Monday I discovered a flat tire. I aired it up and it seemed ok until it was flat again this morning. I guess I have a slow leak somewhere so I’m using the backup bike for the rest of the week. 4 weeks of bike commuting, 3 weeks of massive fail so far.
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