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silverflight8This has really not been a good day.
First, the street was barricaded by a giant parade that was not crossable anywhere for about five or six city blocks east-west, and extended south on both sides (they were making for a |-|_ shape). And I had a meeting, on the other side of the parade. WALKING IS A SIMPLE THING, it's not like public transit and its inconsistencies. It became manifestly unsimple.
I finally got to the library and tried to scan a few pages, but had to do it FOUR TIMES. Each time I would apparently successfully save it to the USB, walk downstairs, only to find that it was a "corrupted file" when I tried to open it on my computer. (I was eventually successful.)
Then I got home and went to library two to get something else scanned (periodicals do not circulate). I tried multiple times at two separate scanners. Nope. Don't recognize the USB key at all. But...the green light lit up! That means you see my USB! It works just fine on my computer! This was my second visit to that particular library today.
AND then I got home, opened up my Nanowrimo project...and the program shut down on me. And I opened it up and nearly panicked because my novel was NOWHERE AND IT SAID ZERO WORDS and I opened a different project and that was there and then I opened up my Nanowrimo project helpfully named "NANOWRIMO2012" and oh god, it was there. That was awful. (I backed up.)
And then I finished up some edits and additions to a project - a group project - which was very fiddly because we are hard up against the page limit and so I had to do a lot of cutting and pruning and then word did something and NOW I HAVE A "COPY" OF MY OLD, ORIGINAL FILE. It says, "original title - copy". WHY?! I didn't do anything! I saved the stupid thing! I don't understand! I mean, my stupidity is my stupidity, but I didn't do anything! :(
It just has not been a very good day.
First, the street was barricaded by a giant parade that was not crossable anywhere for about five or six city blocks east-west, and extended south on both sides (they were making for a |-|_ shape). And I had a meeting, on the other side of the parade. WALKING IS A SIMPLE THING, it's not like public transit and its inconsistencies. It became manifestly unsimple.
I finally got to the library and tried to scan a few pages, but had to do it FOUR TIMES. Each time I would apparently successfully save it to the USB, walk downstairs, only to find that it was a "corrupted file" when I tried to open it on my computer. (I was eventually successful.)
Then I got home and went to library two to get something else scanned (periodicals do not circulate). I tried multiple times at two separate scanners. Nope. Don't recognize the USB key at all. But...the green light lit up! That means you see my USB! It works just fine on my computer! This was my second visit to that particular library today.
AND then I got home, opened up my Nanowrimo project...and the program shut down on me. And I opened it up and nearly panicked because my novel was NOWHERE AND IT SAID ZERO WORDS and I opened a different project and that was there and then I opened up my Nanowrimo project helpfully named "NANOWRIMO2012" and oh god, it was there. That was awful. (I backed up.)
And then I finished up some edits and additions to a project - a group project - which was very fiddly because we are hard up against the page limit and so I had to do a lot of cutting and pruning and then word did something and NOW I HAVE A "COPY" OF MY OLD, ORIGINAL FILE. It says, "original title - copy". WHY?! I didn't do anything! I saved the stupid thing! I don't understand! I mean, my stupidity is my stupidity, but I didn't do anything! :(
It just has not been a very good day.
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Date: Nov. 20th, 2012 12:05 pm (UTC)I know the computers at my work tend to flash there reading the USB, but then you have to go a convoluted method to my computer to actually open the folder. Banes of our lives because you can spend half a shift opening it for people.
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Date: Nov. 22nd, 2012 04:56 am (UTC)(I'm not very good at holding grudges actually. One good thing, and poof! there goes my frothy rage.)
Ack, I'm so glad I mostly end up doing circulation rather than troubleshooting! That sounds so irritating.