this was the most important day of the fundraiser for me... the day that we ask all of our internet listeners to pledge online. we were getting thousands of hits to our website, and what should happen? the earthlink server goes down! i about had a heart attack. the announcers were still unknowingly telling people to pledge online, and i imagined hordes of listeners getting pissed that they couldn't.
so i slid into problem-solving mode: i've got a phone on each ear, listening to menus at two slightly different earthlink support sites, frantically praying someone will answer SOON SOON SOON! after hearing that their "heavy call load" could result in a wait time of 30 minutes (!!) i simultaneously got on their online chat and eventually had a tech tell me that it could be a couple of hours before the server would be back up.
i was freaking the f*ck out by this point.
after about 20 minutes everything came back up. but by now it was way past time for me to leave for divaville. the second the server came back online i bolted to my car, feeling more than a little weird about leaving with everything so shaky.
i flew down 98 and got to XDU just in time, but i was running too late to stop for my beloved tacos. dammit.
divaville somehow went pretty well, though i felt really scattered from the get-go. imagine that.
one good thing i should mention is that my wrist is feeling better. i got a cortisone shot 10 days ago, and it really seems to have helped. so yay for modern medicine. and boo for modern everything else.
Posted by xta at March 25, 2004 08:36 PM | TrackBack