“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”
~ Earl Nightingale
It's been a whole week since I last wrote to you.
We had a snow day last Tuesday and I used the day to not only write to you, but to catch up on a ton of work that had piled up on my desk.
By days end, I was basically all caught up and ready to handle what I knew would certainly be coming at me over the next few days.
With the Halloween selling season in full swing and order deadlines approaching, an unexpected day of order entry was a welcome surprise.
When my head hit the pillow that night, I fell asleep quickly, having a sense of accomplishment as well as peace of mind.
And then came Wednesday!
The internet and computer gods must have had nothing but mischief on their minds,
When I opened my desktop early Wednesday morning, nothing worked. I couldn't open excel,my browser,access my printer or any one of a host of other activities.
All day long I tried this ,that and the other thing. I cleaned,deleted,uninstalled,installed, booted and rebooted to no avail.
By the end of the day, I still had little to no access to files ,order forms,images or attachments.
Thursday morning brought little to no change.
New orders were streaming in and there was nothing I could do to access them, let alone enter them in the system.
Deadlines were drawing near and cut-off dates were approaching.
Not to mention that new programs needed to be finalized and launched.
It was a mess.
More cleaning.
More deleting.
More downloading.
More rebooting.
Did I mention that along with this, the electrical system in my bus cut out again and the brakes that were replaced 3 weeks ago were screaming like a cat whose tail was on fire?
Or that we were expecting an extra 8 guests for Shabbat dinner on top of the regular crowd that we have weekly?
And it was week 1 of a new Why Weight cycle here in the Spiegel household.
Needless to say, writing never happened!
Saturday morning I drove Susan to the shop and headed home. I had a couple of quiet hours before the cleaning people would be here
.Determined to try my best to accomplish as much as I possibly could in that precious time slot, I sat down at my desk and opened my computer.
I opened an email.
I hit the "open in Browser" button. Nothing!
Nothing that is except for a little blip in the upper right hand corner of my computer.
Hmmmmm......
What was that. I clicked on the icon.
And everything is now back to normal!
In the interim, I lost my entire Microsoft Office suite as well as a number of other functions.
They've all been replaced, with what for now is a workable solution.
And while I am still not 100% caught up, I have made some neat piles which will get my undivided attention starting tomorrow.
Tonight, I just needed a break,and a chance to write to you again.
Now it's time to get to bed and get a good night's sleep.
And hope that the computer imps are done messing with me!
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