As you may have noticed, we’ve been having some technology troubles.
In this case, there was nothing your editorial team could do, but I’m pretty sure this is how we all felt:
Only two days until the weekend! Tell us how your week has been going, or show us your flair.
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Long time reader, first time commenter. Just thought I would come and say hello.
Hi! Welcome to P-mag! We’re glad you’re here.
MY UNICORNS
So I had an interview yesterday
And HRM called me today like ‘Hey we’re doing you a job offer look at it’
And it’s pretty awesome so I’m going to have a job per April 1 (uh-oh?)
And than the mail came in. With a new contract from my part-time job.
Congrats! I believe that’s what they call “killing it”
I have an early morning sub job. This is unfortunate because the earlier I wake up, the longer my morning routine takes, which means I have to wake up even more earlier. Plus, waking up too early makes me sleep deprived which simultaneously makes me constantly hungry AND too tired to exercise. But I’ve pre-planned semi-healthy munchies and I’m going to try to force the issue to get to my 4:30 Zumba class.
Dear internet gods: Please make it a snow day tomorrow. Please please please. I need sleep and time to get over this cold.
It’s amazing how an unexpected inspection notice from ones landlord will bring on the Spring cleaning in a hurry. Three hours later and my apt is clean,and I am starving but to exhausted to cook. ugh.
So, my “weekend” is tuesday and wednesday. Yesterday, I ended things with a guy I really, really liked because he’s 33 and doesn’t have his shit together. As in, his kitchen is a gross disgusting filthy mess, he can’t keep toilet paper in the house, and he drinks to get drunk on a really, really regular basis. He’s so nice and smart and funny when he’s sober. When he’s drunk he loses like 50 IQ points and just can’t communicate to save his life.
Today, I made “ice cream” out of a frozen banana and a batch of chocolate chip cookie dough. I cooked three of the cookies and put the rest in the freezer.
Very productive weekend.
Aw, I’m sorry it didn’t work out, but it sounds like you might have dodged a bullet there.
That ice cream sounds both ingenious and delightful.
I’ve been attached to my computer all week for some heavy data analysis for a report I need to get out by the end of the week. So much stress. Soon it will be done and it will be the weekend and I will sleep and eat pizza and drink wine and be a normal person again.
If we could conceivably run P-mag with carrier pigeons instead of a server, I would enthusiastically consider it. Technology can bite my ladybits.
Sometimes I think hamsters on wheels would be more reliable than our various hosting services.
So apparently that job I’ve been waiting on went to someone else. I haven’t been notified (I haven’t heard *anything* since the interview), but one of the employees said they’d already hired that person when I did my sneaky-oops-I-lost-my-map-that-I-can-get-a-replacement-for-in-this-very-office visit.
AND I’m already playing “how the hell am I gonna pay my rent in a week and a half”, so this does NOT help anything.
I just feel useless and stupid and like I must have done something horribly, horribly wrong, and this is a punishment. Seriously, y’all, this has been my life for over a year.
A similar thing just happened to a friend of mine today, and it SUCKS. I’m sorry, dude. I had to call a bunch of people today and tell them we hired someone else. It’s not fun from either side.
I will happily go kick life right in the giblets in your honor. That job doesn’t know what they’re missing.
God, I love Office Space.
I wasted a lot of time at work today. And after the admin assistant left, I realized she could see my screen from her desk. Dammit. I’ve been caught. Also, my apartment is still furniture-less until Tuesday, and Fed Ex won’t deliver my case of wine unless someone over the age of 21 is in my apartment. Of which I am the only resident who is at work 10 hours every day. I tried to reschedule the delivery for Saturday, but we’ll see if that actually works out.
case. of. wine. That’s a great idea.
I know how you feel about visible-screen time. My office is on one side of a conference room and you can walk through my office to get there- or just use the actual conf room door at the far end of the hallway. No one seems to ever want to walk to the far end of the hall and just cut through my office instead. I feel like I can NEVER shirk about online in case someone comes in unexpectedly… Bah.