Minor announcement:

The VPN setup I had working the other week has refused to work for me or anyone else. I got greedy when I put that file on my boss's hard drive, I suppose. I've been trying to fix it all bloody week so far. No dice. Had to reopen the case at Microsoft. Will deal with that when I get to work, but that's going to be AFTER I deal with the malfunctioning Blackberry device of the executive VP who can't pick up his office email because the Blackberry web service ain't shworfing anything off our servers since about 9:44 AM yesterday. Said VP is currently in the UK.

I have been dealing with this all week. I spent much of yesterday at work dealing with the VPN on the server end, and the exec's Blackberry problem. I also spent most of yesterday trying to get our friggin' file server to let us install ANYTHING. At this point I am about ready to tell the boss 'sod it, buy a new server, we'll transfer files over and THEN fix Spock, it's not worth it financially'- and Spock was new in December.

I don't think I actually resolved any tech issues yesterday, except for a lone printer problem, and maybe one or two minor things to do with other people's missing files. Except that one of the missing files turned out to have decided it wanted to be over 129 megs in size for no reason the creator could discern.

I'd say I'm goin' to bed except that I just got up. I'll be dealing with the techshit all day today, most likely.

God, I would like to ask You, very calmly and politely and humbly: please, is there any chance You could see to it that Drama doesn't happen today as well? I mean, if you want it to happen in my everyday life that's fine. I can live with weird narrativey things happening to me or to the people in my office (although if it lays a finger on my nephew or his parents I'm going to go berserk worse than John Preston did for the puppy). But... I interact with a lot of people online, You know that. I consider online to be something of a haven from the crap that I have to resolve at work. Could You possibly see your way clear to sheltering me from Drama online today? I've had about enough these past couple of weeks, and if I could have one space free of sturm und drang- whether it's RL or online- I'd really appreciate that.

Thank You, Lord. I'm gonna get changed and go to work now. Please, if it wouldn't be too much trouble, send me a way of making sure the VPN works, too. We can do a workaround on the Blackberries but the VPN's really important.

Thank You.

Sincerely,

Me.

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... apparently I reached the office this morning without noticing that I put my sweater on inside out.

Fortunately no one else noticed either except for the woman whose computer spontaneously powered down, and I was able to fix it quickly, but yeesh.

(Side note: I don't think I saw any of the Fair Folk or the creatures of the underworld along the way, except for the usual denizens of the subway. Poo.)

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My species is stupid.

Computers are stupid too.

I can't get anything accomplished today, despite trying everything that SHOULD be fixing the problems (VPN in one case, Exchange/Outlook/Blackberry issues in another). I look at the news and am struck by the impression that nobody gives a rat's ass about whether an idea is something that can be backed up with facts and reason, whether they live in this country or overseas. I look at the things I've tried to accomplish with people I know in the past few weeks, and while I've made a number of people very happy, I've almost completely alienated others- and find myself burning with a vast, dull rage because of it. Even though I know the rage is stupid and useless. I can't get my brain together enough to write, even though I've got a chunk of Who Ya Gonna Owl? ready to go if I can just persuade my brain to send it to my fingers.

I had fun last night, I know I did. And I had great joy in the sky and air and everything else today on the way into work.

But right now I hate my species and am feeling roughly the same way about most of the works of our hands.

I gotta go look at the Pulaski Skyway or the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge for a while or something. There's gotta be something a human being can do right through the use of their brain, even if that human being isn't me.