Friday, August 5, 2011

Ctrl Z Please

So this week has been a technically challenging one for me and I really don't know why. I am not (usually) a complete idiot, but this week is resetting the bar very low. I just sent out an email wherein all of the LSUs were successfully replaced by the auto spell checker as LUST. Shoot me now please. I am the idiot that hit "change all" instead of "ignore all." Our email cannot be called back. There is no magic undo button. And yes, it was an email I was sending on behalf of my boss. Fuck.

This was not the only moment of complete stupidity on my part. My cable box died after a storm a couple weeks ago. I think now that the fuse blew and that the box itself may have been okay. It was a pretty old cable box that was now full of hair, pet and human dander as well as a goodly amount of kitty vomit. It was probably for the best that I got a fresh one. I plugged the new one in and nothing. This is when I realized that the electrical outlet was likely involved. I plugged it into an isobar with the television,; hooked the cable from the tv into the box but forgot to hook the cable from the wall into the box. So I "activated" it and nothing substantive happened. I called Kevin at Cox to complain that my cable was not working. He suggested that I had the wrong line to the cable in. I realized I had no line to it, cursed ever so ladylike in his ear, grabbed the cable, plugged it in and tried again. Still nothing. I tried to follow the cable to the wall only to realize it was just some random cable that went nowhere. Grabbed another cable only to discover the same issue. Hung up with poor Kevin and postponed activating my cable properly until I had had a shower and had returned from work. I did find the correct cable but remain perplexed by the two extra ones that were just stored in my bedroom. They are now in the guest room for save keeping.

I have an hour and change left on this work week. Please let me not do anything else stupid.

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