The good, the bad, and the late-night-pensive

[chanaleh]

Good: Getting the newsletter done.
Bad: Missing my dinner date because #@&!* Gmail would not send my *$&@^#(*&! attachment of the newsletter PDF, wasting an entire hour to ultimately no avail because the %@&* thing had to be sent by sneakernet anyway after all.

Good: Receiving a late-evening social call in place of the missed dinner date.
Bad: Wanting, always, more than I can have, ever.
Bad: And now it's after 2am and sleep is far from me. So far that I don't even know where it is.

Bad: And I have so much to do tomorrow.
Bad: And the day after that, and the day and the day and the day after that.
Stupid, but true: And the things that I should be looking forward to can't soothe me right now; they all feel hollow, dry as dust. Because right now I am here alone, and even sleep is far from me.

Good: At least (for now) my net connection is working.

Let's see, what else?
Good: Uh, remembered to pick up my T pass today.
Good: And got to Pearl before they closed.
Bad: They were sold out of every size of clip frame... except one obscure one (4" x 10").
Good: But I needed some of those too, actually. So I bought a couple, and framed my 4" x 10" things for the art show when I got home.
Good: jessruth is coming to visit this weekend!
Good: And tomorrow I'm having dinner with OtherJessica and Amy whom I haven't seen in a coon's age. So maybe I am looking forward to something, after all.

Comments

[jessruth.livejournal.com]

Glad I can be part of the Good in your day yesterday. Can't wait to see you!

[tapuz.livejournal.com]

Yesterday was Officially Evil, ya know.

Hope today's better!

[noghri.livejournal.com]

Good: Your friends still love you :)

Sorry you had a sucky day. :(

[navrins]

"a coon's age?" From context I assume it must be a long time, but I never really thought of coons as being especially old.

More to the point, "Hi, long time no see outside show."

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

A nice point, indeed! We should remedy it.

And: http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcoonsage.html

It is a rather rustic sort of expression. Some might claim it betrays my Midwestern heritage. I don't know. :-)

[navrins]

But you have so much to do today. And the day after that, and the day and the day and the day after that. :-)

Me, I got nothing to do. Well, nothing with a fixed schedule, at least.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

It's true, I do, but I figured there was no point in reiterating that disclaimer. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

Bad: Wanting, always, more than I can have, ever.

A woman's reach should always exceed her grasp.

I admire many things about you, one of which is your quality of continuously striving for something better.

--wex

[besamim.livejournal.com]

1. I hope today goes better.
2. What's this about Gmail not sending attachments? Was this a one-time fluke? (I myself am sticking to my two Yahoo! accounts for all but trusted recipients. Haven't had a problem with the service yet. And Yahoo! doesn't read my e-mail text with a bot.)

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I suspect it was not so much Gmail's fault as that of my sucky connectivity from home. But I was able to load several other pages around the same time; it just kept aborting the process every time I tried to Send (or even Save Draft). "Oops! The system was not able to process your command. Please try again in a few seconds." And I mean I tried it 25 times, easily. Grrr.

[melopoeia.livejournal.com]

sucky days suck. And internet woobles are not fun.
So -- I send good karma waves, if they can do much.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I can't help with any of the rest of your day, but I can help you with Pearl. They suck and they have ever since they got bought. The new company does all the ordering for al the stores from Central Command somewhere. There is _no mechanism_ by which local store managers nor, especially shop workers, can request or order a product that they know they will need or are running low on. C.C. has no concept of the value of keeping a variety on the shelves, they figure if they don't have what you want, you will buy what they want to sell.

Enter Artist and Craftsman Supply. Also a chain, but a very small one of (I think) 6 or 7 stores, run by sensible people. You know that Pearl has gotten bad when it makes good business sense to open up directly across Mass. Ave. from such a known brand name store. They have a friendly, knowledgeable staff, are usually less expensive, and consistently better stocked than Pearl. They keep the same hours as their competitor, and are on the web at http://artistcraftsman.com.

Good luck with the rest of it.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I hear you, and have been so advised by a couple of people now. I've gone in there once or twice before, and I'll probably check there tomorrow night. (But do they carry beads? That's mostly what I went to Pearl for, besides the frames.)

[points.livejournal.com]

*Hugs*

[(Anonymous)]

Free Gmail hint: It's a massively distributed system. If you're having persistent problems, try logging out and logging back in again, as it'll put you on a different machine.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Hope that in sum the positive outweighed the negative!