Error Messages

I hate error messages.... My phone gives me a "Battery almost empty" (how nice to warn me before it's completely empty!). My computer - when booted into Windows - still likes to give me the "illegal operation" error message and the cat meows in an alarming way when he thinks he needs help catching that spider on the wall. Error messages are everywhere! I do feel a bit paranoid today. The "Error Messages are trying to kill me!" paranoia got worse today when my boss came by to tell me he needed customized error messages on our business website. . .I am still not sure whether he considered my screaming and locking myself in the bathroom an overreaction.

Oh Morpheus....

I haven't slept properly for at least a week. The weekend is near, there might be hope for me. Nothing exciting going on right now. If I'm going all geek on you now, the lack of excitement is to blame for it. Suit yourself!

Today at work, they finally found out that I suck when it comes to Vector graphics and related software. Not that I really would need it for the job - as I'm mostly doing all the writing, not much layout. I keep telling everyone how I just don't get Corel Draw at ALL. Everyone but ... my boss. So, after he was done with a half hour rant about whatever his problem with some layout thing was ... I told him I didn't understand a word in the past ...say ... 28 minutes. In the end, I admitted my lack of vital knowledge in the area of said software. Sadist he is, he suddenly comes up with all kinds of layout stuff he needs me to do. How I wish I never said anything. I used to tell people I couldn't make coffee (until I finally started drinking it myself) to avoid having to make it. I should have stayed with that kind of thinking

More geek stuff: This is my first post from a Linux Operating System. How exciting, I know! Still using Windows 2000 Pro next to my Ubuntu Linux. Using Win2K for most of the graphics/ music/ video editing stuff, but Ubuntu might well become the mainly used Operating System on my computer. If they call me a geek already, I might as well really go for it. :)

Going to bed now. I heard there's a law that says to be in bed by 2 am or you'll be eaten by a pack of squirrels. Sounds plausible ... there's a park nearby!

*Sigh*

Everybody's got the right to rant, right? You do .... and I do. So I guess that's settled. I'm sure there's plenty of material for a mudfight - judging from all that rain coming down here right now. The mud might also have a deodorizing effect, which could help me fight that B.O. and become more popular... But I think mudfights are against our constitution. So... Nah! (or blah!)

Other than that, I am far too tired to start another rant. I could complain about a lot of things today ... The weather, for example!

I've been looking for a new job. Well, a real job, for a change... Full time and permanent. Now that I have my M.A., I can go for Gold, can't I? ...
Meanwhile, back in my current job, I've been spending the last few days knee-deep in php code. How did that happen?

My computer studies teacher from Highschool would NEVER believe it. Yours Truly used to sit in his classes not knowing jack about coding. He made us program a winter landscape with snowmen and falling snow which was then supposed to stay on the ground. When my Turbo Pascal program finally ran, the three snowballs making up the snowman were all in different places. The little triangle meant to be the carrot-nose was stuck somewhere in the upper left corner of the "landscape" and the snow came up from the ground - then sticking allover the screen. Abstract art, anyone? Within about ten minutes, the screen was white from all that "snow".

Yeah, I was special! I tried making it look like all that was done on purpose, but it didn't work. In the end, I used all my "Wild Cards" (you could choose three out of about 40 classes and pretty much "delete" them) on computer studies classes.

Anyway, I wonder whether the boss would still make me do coding work beside the PR stuff if he talked to my teacher. Hmmm....

I'm supposed to be off to party now. But I'm tired. Maybe I'm just getting old!