I need a vacation.

Bill Martino

Bill Martino

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My counter on my website that has worked properly for over 98000 times quits counting for no reason.

My Corel Photohouse won't work if I have anything running besides it. I have to shutdown and open only Corel to get it to work. One of the reasons I don't post more pix.

My printer started spitting out little springs and plastic parts with printed pages.

Aol tells me I have mail and then won't give it to me. I have to shut it down, reload to get my mail.

Smoothsale pulls the plug with no warning or apology.

I have to develop a new shopping site with Andale. It won't post up the credit card option. I ask for help. They tell me to do everything I've already done. I do it again. It still won't work. I email for help. No answer.

I call Verisign for help. They put me on hold for 30 minutes so I give up.

The Reno post office won't forward my mail -- they tell me that's the job of my old mailing service which closed Nov. 1.

I'm waiting for the anthrax to arrive any day.

I think I need a vacation.

Jim, got an extra cot in the cave?
 
by all means, take the day off, Bill. Go for a walk by the Truckee. Throw some rocks in. Don't let the customer service bureaucracy get you down. Your customers want an Uncle Bill who feels like tap dancing.
 
Uncle Bill,

Go to the gunshop and buy a used mossberg 500 pump, load with 3" magnum 00 Buckshot and destroy the computer. Buy a new one and start over--sorry I know its not economically a good idea, but it feels damn good to think about:D
 
Uncle Bill

Sounds like your computer may have a virus or need a bunch defragmented on the hard drive. You may need to haul it in for a check up:confused:
 
The computer is a lot like me. It's old and slow but it works everyday I ask it to.

It's the other stuff that doesn't do the job.
 
Uncle, take a vacation. You deserve it. I think we could handle things while you were gone.


Heber Ellsworth
 
My sympathies, Uncle. Looks like the Internet gremlins have taken roost.

Computers are a good thing but they can sure drive ya nuts in a hurry. My cussing vocabulary has improved quite a bit over the years staring at this danged monitor (computer programmer).

Andrew Limsk
 
Take some time off, walk in the country, watch some sunsets, drink a cold one, play with a puppy. Do something that renews you, we'll be here when you get back.

I wish I were closer, because while my daughter is at college, I do have a spare bed, and a great dog for that matter. Not much chance of seeing sunsets in Ohio in November however.
 
By all means take some time off Uncle. I call 'em sanity days and I take a couple a year. We all know how hard you work for us and there will be no comlaints if you take a few to get it all together. Peace be with you, you're in my prayers.
 
At least that is one of our favorite places to run away to. (May be a bit far from Reno, however:) ) Sounds like you could use a couple sanity days and a change of scenery. Go someplace you can drive to in a couple hours and let Yangdu drag you around shopping ( if she is so inclined--I know my wife is!;) ) Work hard at doing as little as possible. This is harder than it seems, we have trouble disengaging from the daily grind, but sometimes it is a must!

-Craig
 
I did take part of a day off last week and drove up to Lake Tahoe. My problem is I take a lot of the problems with me. It's hard to turn off the brain.
 
Uncle,

If you can, lose AOL. It is a sorry excuse for whatever it claims to be.

Remember the punch-happy old boxer in the Jack London story? Keep a sap handy and when it just gets too bad have Yangdu tap you behind the ear. Things might be better when you wake up.
 
I got my major problem with the shopping site cured.

And, things get better after 18 bottles of Heineken. Only 15 to go.
 
Why don´t you hop into a plane and come over here for a nice relaxing beer cure? ... we even have belly dancers ;)
 
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