It’s been an exceptional week for one step forward and two steps back. First I developed a ghost in my machine who eats things like my entire ftp site manager information, my firefox chosen homepage, and other stuff that you just take for granted. No amount of reconstructing it will keep it there, it’ll work for awhile then disappear again. Then, when I was running one browser in the background with Pandora playing, and had around a hundred open tabs in firefox, along with twenty or so other programs (my normal modux operandi for work) things just started HANGING on the screen. I’d close a window and part of it would stay on the screen. Not all, just part. Hopefully the chunk of change I spent at Crucial for new memory that’s scheduled to arrive today will solve that problem.

Meanwhile I have to run light and spare on the main box, or use the laptop (which I’m not wild about.) And that means not having the email open while I’m working on graphics, not keeping the php designer open along with dreamweaver, etc. And opening and closing the programs while I’m working is not only NOT intuitive for me, it’s also time consuming during a time when I’m overloaded with work.

Then there are the bugs. It’s been a week for bugs, from the mysterious disappearing Google Ads (everything I do to try to get them appear breaks the son of suckerfish menu directly before them in source code) to the incredible exploding FrontPage template (don’t ask.) I’m usually the kind of bullheaded coder who will eventually find a solution for any problem but I gotta admit to just being so damn frustrated this week that my head has a lump the size of Texas from banging it on my desk.

Add to that the delight of my small and usually friendly city turning into a nasty bunch of screaming idiots fighting over parking spaces when we have snow and ice and noplace to shovel it on top of a shortage of parking in normal times and you have a recipe for sheer insanity.

I need a vacation.

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