Had an interesting day today. My friend Rand picked me up on his lunch hour to take me back over to his place. See, I had been doing some database work for his mom, getting her contacts set up in Act instead of on paper. Well, the database is done, but the software needed installing on her machine and her preferences set up and printer settings configured, etc. Basically make it compeltely ready for her to use. This is great in theory. Just didn't work out that way.

First, it crashed the pc at 80% installation. Oh dear. Well, it's Windows, so...eh, this is par for the course, I'll just hardboot it (it froze like a MF) and start it again. Which I did. But it wouldn't finish the install. So I rebooted again and started it up a third time. Ok, looks good.

Meanwhile, one of the cats is whinning to be let out into the pool area. Mkay, I think, this will take a few anyway, I'll grab my digital cam and go out back and take some pics (she has a beautiful garden and yard). Yeah well apparently, the door now locks itself behind you. I didn't know that. So I'm outside, taking pics, sweating because I'm in a pair of jean and it's 90 degrees out (no really, it's still Summer in Florida) and I'm finally like, ok, dying of thirst and heat, I'm going back inside. That's about the time I discovered I was locked out. Ahem.

So I walk around to the front of the house and approach the neighbor across the street. I know Rand knows them so I figure I'll ask to use their phone. Excuse me, I say. I'm not as much an idiot as I look, but I seem to have locked myself out. Can I borrow your phone? Few blinks and weird stares and they bring me the phone. I call Rand and luckily it's about 5pm, so he can come straight back over and be there in about 15 minutes. I thank them and head back into the pool area to swelter and wait. (go me. Feeling really genius today)

Well, he gets home and of course, lets me back in. Then we tackle the Act! problem. About four more tries and assorted error messages later, we can neither install, run, nor uninstall the software. Joy of joys. He says he'll try upgrading her OS from Win98 to XP or something, hoping that fixes whatever's screwed up with the software working. (something he'll have to do later). Meanwhile, he has soccer to go play so I hop on his pc - with cable modem - and settle in to surf a bit. Turns out, ezboard is down. And has been for hours. Arg. So. I'm by myself. Cable modem. Time to catch up on my forums. And technical errors that took down their site. *sighs*

So, to sum up. Software I came over to set up wouldn't work. I got locked out in the afternoon heat in jeans and the thing I wanted to do while getting the rare chance to be on broadband was down. Just wasn't my day, hu?

On the up side of things, I did get home in time to see West Wing, so the day was not completely shot. :) Although, ezboard is down again so despite the fact I logged on to catch up now like I wanted to earlier, I still can't. Just one of those days. *lol*

Hope yours was less badly scripted then mine. :) ttfn

~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream at 10/3/2002 12:55:43 AM ~ ~