My Annoying Day
Yesterday was quite annoying. The annoyingness started Sunday night, really, when my internet suddenly stopped working. It's happened occasionally that the server is down for a couple of hours, so I decided to just take it as a sign that it was time for me to log off and go to sleep. When I came home on Monday afternoon the internet was still not working, but I was too tired to deal with it, and spent the rest of the day sleeping.
When the internet was still down yesterday, I got quite annoyed. I called the ISP at the university, but the bloke answering the phone told me that according to his data the internet was working fine and should be switched on in my room. He did redirect my problem to some technicians, telling me that they'll soon give me a ring to get some more details. In my naiveté I somehow assumed that "soon" meant "in a few minutes". More than a day has passed now and they still haven't called.
I spent a large part of the day trying to keep myself occupied while waiting for that call. I didn't dare take a shower and go shopping, even though I was in dire need of both, in fear that I would either miss the call or not be at my computer when I got it. For a while I even postponed making lunch, because I was afraid that the call would come while I was eating and that the food would get cold while we were working through the problem. I caved in once I decided that I was too hungry to mind cold food. It was around that time that I started trying to troubleshoot the problem by myself. Unfortunately Windows Vista was being extremely unhelpful. Its advice pretty much amounted to: "Hi there! I've run into a problem that I can't solve on my own! Now I'll keep you guessing!" I changed some configurations that could have been the cause, but it didn't do anything.
Additionally, I spent a lot of time looking for my back-up disc for Microsoft Office, but couldn't find it anywhere. I was worried that I had lost it and that I would have to buy a new version. I don't even particularly like the newest version of Word. It looks daft. Luckily I managed to sort at least this problem out with a phone call to my dad who found the disc in my old room. He's going to snail-mail it to me as soon as he can.
I also found out that iTunes starts crying and throwing tantrums when you move files around. Strangely enough, it only had a problem with some files, even though I had moved all of them. I did manage to fix it, though.
After 8pm I realised that the technicians weren't going to contact me that day, so I finally took a shower and bought some food. And I got a package from Mika, which was nice.
...You know what? I think I'm going to blame everything that went wrong yesterday on Windows Vista. Okay? Everyone fine with that? Good.
EDIT: I'm at home now. This time Vista actually diagnosed the problem, so I managed to fix it by myself. Feeling a lot less cranky now. :)
(Still not too happy about Windows Vista, though...)
EDIT: Lost internet connection again. I restarted, but that didn't help. I tried to fiddle around with the configurations, but it didn't seem to do anything, and then suddenly the net came back on. Randomly. When I hadn't been doing anything. In other words, it seems that from now on I'll be living in constant fear of randomly losing connection to the internet. Oh yay.
When the internet was still down yesterday, I got quite annoyed. I called the ISP at the university, but the bloke answering the phone told me that according to his data the internet was working fine and should be switched on in my room. He did redirect my problem to some technicians, telling me that they'll soon give me a ring to get some more details. In my naiveté I somehow assumed that "soon" meant "in a few minutes". More than a day has passed now and they still haven't called.
I spent a large part of the day trying to keep myself occupied while waiting for that call. I didn't dare take a shower and go shopping, even though I was in dire need of both, in fear that I would either miss the call or not be at my computer when I got it. For a while I even postponed making lunch, because I was afraid that the call would come while I was eating and that the food would get cold while we were working through the problem. I caved in once I decided that I was too hungry to mind cold food. It was around that time that I started trying to troubleshoot the problem by myself. Unfortunately Windows Vista was being extremely unhelpful. Its advice pretty much amounted to: "Hi there! I've run into a problem that I can't solve on my own! Now I'll keep you guessing!" I changed some configurations that could have been the cause, but it didn't do anything.
Additionally, I spent a lot of time looking for my back-up disc for Microsoft Office, but couldn't find it anywhere. I was worried that I had lost it and that I would have to buy a new version. I don't even particularly like the newest version of Word. It looks daft. Luckily I managed to sort at least this problem out with a phone call to my dad who found the disc in my old room. He's going to snail-mail it to me as soon as he can.
I also found out that iTunes starts crying and throwing tantrums when you move files around. Strangely enough, it only had a problem with some files, even though I had moved all of them. I did manage to fix it, though.
After 8pm I realised that the technicians weren't going to contact me that day, so I finally took a shower and bought some food. And I got a package from Mika, which was nice.
...You know what? I think I'm going to blame everything that went wrong yesterday on Windows Vista. Okay? Everyone fine with that? Good.
EDIT: I'm at home now. This time Vista actually diagnosed the problem, so I managed to fix it by myself. Feeling a lot less cranky now. :)
(Still not too happy about Windows Vista, though...)
EDIT: Lost internet connection again. I restarted, but that didn't help. I tried to fiddle around with the configurations, but it didn't seem to do anything, and then suddenly the net came back on. Randomly. When I hadn't been doing anything. In other words, it seems that from now on I'll be living in constant fear of randomly losing connection to the internet. Oh yay.