Cant Keep Quiet!

Ever have one of those days where you realize that you would have been better off with staying in bed with the sheets over your head? That was my day today.

I wanted to get up early, take a shower, and head into work early. Friday when I left work the school office’s computer system was down and I was hoping it would be back up and I could get caught up and ready for a meeting at 8 am.

Getting up early is not easy to do when you have trouble getting to sleep the night before.

When the alarm went off I decided that I could pull my hair back into a pony tail instead of washing it so I could get some extra sleep. The next time it went off I decided that I could use the wrinkle out spray (I know it has a real name) instead of ironing my pants. Needless to say, I ended up getting up later than I wanted to. I still managed to get to work a little bit early, though.

Before I headed off to work I replugged the modem in only to find that after being turned off before the IP lease expired and being off for several hours, I still had the same IP.

When I got to work I found out that the computer system was still down. At least it was down for all but one computer. I thought I was saved. I could still print up the Individual Education Plan (IEP) needed for a meeting at 8 am. The only problem? That one computer sent everything to a network printer. All network printers were down.

I ended up being forced to write several forms by hand.

When the meeting was over I was hoping to get some work done but with the computer system down that wasn’t going to happen. Instead I got to look at the piles of work in my office that I couldn’t work on last week because the system was down more than it was up and that I still couldn’t work on.

At one point I was getting ready to head to the post office to send something out overnight. As I left I dropped the drink I had in my hand. The can of soda (Mountain Dew Code Red) hit my leg and then hit the floor and rolled down the hallway. Someone was called to mop up the floor to get rid of the sticky residue I couldn’t get up. I still have a slight red stain on my pants in an inconvenient spot.

At the post office I found out that Express Overnight does not mean overnight to everywhere we could send it in the U.S. It actually means in 1 to 2 days. Apparently it wouldn’t have mattered if I got there right when the doors opened, either. Overnight still means 1 to 2 days.

The computer system finally came up this afternoon to cut off and on again a couple of times. Actually, it wasn’t the computer system that was cutting off and on. It was my older than hell computer that couldn’t handle doing more than one task at a time.

I tried cutting off my home modem again this afternoon for several hours. The result? I have the same IP address. Plus my mom had to tell me that her beau wasn’t getting her e-mail. At least I seem to have fixed the e-mail issue.

I’d call the local provider regarding the IP (instead of the online tech person) but right now I can’t handle someone else telling me something has gone wrong.

I think I’ll stay in bed tomorrow. With the sheets over my head.

I might just do that for the rest of the week.