It's just one of those days.

Actually, more like a couple of bad days. Yesterday, I decided to empty my paper shredder which I hate doing because no matter how careful you are, you end up with shredded paper on the floor. Sure, it would be easy if you could put the shreds into a plastic garbage bag or something LARGE enough to fit the container into while you're dumping.

But no, you can't do that. The refuse company that handles your recycling says you must put the shreds into a PAPER grocery sack. Hmm. I don't know about you, but I'm finding it harder and harder to find stores that actually offer the paper bags. Most have plastic and if you're like me, you prefer bringing the reusable totes to the store. I have about eight of these which is usually enough when I do the grocery shopping, but every now and then I need another bag, so I snag one at the only store I know that still has them available.

Anyway, I'm digressing here. My point is that I got shreds on the carpet in my office. This necessitated hauling out the vacuum and cleaning up the mess. In the process of that, I thought I had moved all dangling cords to various electronics out of the way. Alas, this was not so. The cord to my transcriptionist headset was hanging down and to make a long story short, it got caught by the rotating brushes on the bottom of the vac. SNAP! Oh, crap. That was my only good headset. My backup ones got damaged a month or so ago and so only one side of them works.

So I had to order a new set, well, actually two so I can have a backup. In the meantime, I had to borrow some ear buds from my husband. I hate them because they're like wearing ear plugs, but I had no choice. It was either that or wear the big noise-canceling headphones and those give me a headache to wear for extended periods of time.

Now today, I finished my morning workload and checked to see what I'd be working on in the afternoon. Nothing to download as all my jobs were server jobs, meaning I would need to log in and work on them. I logged in and checked the total minute count, filled out the captions in the files and decided to work later after lunch.

Wasn't to be as today was the day the ftp server and the remote desktop server decided to both freak out. They were down all afternoon and the only status report we got was that the vendor was working on it. It's now after 7:30 at night and the servers are finally working. Oh, joy. Because I am now tired and don't want to work any more. To top it off, my "blazing-fast internet" is not blazing. It's barely flickering. I am getting less than half the speed I was getting in the morning. Blame it on all the evening traffic. I suppose. Fine if you want to web surf, but not okay for transcribing.

I'm done.