Just One Day Without Failing

Worst Day Ever

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:19:42 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve posted I realize, but I’ve actually had real things to do so I haven’t had the time to post every little thing I mess up on a day to day basis. However, this last Sunday was such a monumental day rife with failure I just have to tell you all about it.

The day started with moving a car-load of things to my new apartment, the one I started renting July 1st. The place still isn’t fixed up. The kitchen is a disaster, the carpets aren’t clean, and they stopped painting half-way through the place. Wow. A great start to a Sunday.

I then drove out to Mayfair Mall to replace my DVR which failed at installing an update last week. They gave me a new one and I headed home.

Or so I thought, but the traffic to the Brewers game had other plans.

45 minutes later, I arrive at home with the DVR, I plugged it in, and it read “Illegal Cable Box” or something to that effect. They gave me a number to call, but it only took me to the unpaid bills office, which was closed.

Wow, a terrible day so far, so it was time for some lunch. My roommate decided it would be awesome to make fried Limburger cheese sandwiches. What do you know, the cheese known as “stinky cheese” is capabable of making an entire apartment smell like death once heated, and frankly, the sandwich was so pungent it was barely edible. 2 days later, our house still reeks.

Due to the smell and the fact that we are moving and need to clean anyway, we went out to buy paper towel and other cleaning supplies. We somehow forgot to actually buy the paper towel though, so wow.

Ok, it was time to take a shower and just stop trying to do things and relax for the night, right? Oh right, the hot water heater broke on Saturday, so it was an ice cold shower for me.

Wow, I could at least fire up the grill and slowly roast that brisket, right? Out of gas. Literally the last day I ever planned on using that grill it ran out of gas. But wait! We had extra charcoal sitting in the basement… sopping wet due to the recent rain.

Fine, onto video games. Oh, they’ve been moved already.

Just sit and do nothing, the only way I can’t fail.

meh

admin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:41:09 +0000

meh

Server?

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:54:16 +0000

Yesterday 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?

Perfect Timing

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:15:37 +0000

As 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?

The Great Hunt

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:09:30 +0000

Apartment 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.

Still Tired

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:24:09 +0000

I 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.

Self Control

admin — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:49:03 +0000

In 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.

Nice Day

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:53:04 +0000

It 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.

A Fraud

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:58:48 +0000

Just 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.

Purchasing Power

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:35:13 +0000

I 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.