Where to even start?………
Well- my new (awesome) computer is on it’s way. I finally got it ordered on Thursday and Steve (our computer guy) is super jealous of it, so I know it’s good :-) I did not get it ordered without a headache though.
I forgot to have my bank raise my daily purchase limit, so Dell held my order and told me to call my bank and have them raise my limit. Easy enough, right? People raise their limits all the time.
NOT THE CASE!!!!
I call my bank and they tell me I need to physically go into a branch and raise the limit. ok- I’ve always heard that it can be raised over the phone (you know….like everything else in the world), but that’s fine. I hop in the car and drive to the branch just up the road, park, walk to the door and their lobby closes at FOUR!!!!!! FOUR???? Seriously??? so I pull around through the drive through and it was as though no one had ever asked to have their limit raised. Lots of blank stares and it could take 48 hours. The final conclusion is that the bank manager will call first thing in the morning to get it raised in they’ll give me a call. Super!
I decide to wait until noon to call the bank, but Dell emails me at like 11:00 and says they tried again and it still hadn’t been raised. So I call the bank and they’re like, “ohhhh yeahhhh- the bank manager called and you have to go into the original bank where you first set up your account and that bank manager has to call in to get your limit raised….oh….and she’s out sick till Monday….so the earliest we would be able to do ANYTHING for you would be Monday….”
ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? Give me my stinkin’ money- I have pictures to edit and you don’t want to mess with me!!!
I got pretty darn ticky at this point and decided I would just figure it out on my own. Thanks for the help you jack wagons! (ha- love that Gieco commericial…LOVE IT!! Makes me laugh so hard every time! Just in case you didn’t understand where “jack wagon” came from- it’s that commercial.) I call Dell and we do my limit on my personal account, my limit on my business account and then the rest went on my credit card and BAM- my computer was FINALLY put back in the making.
Don’t get me wrong- I appreciate the security feature of having a daily limit just incase someone steals your card, but when a customer calls or comes into the branch and requests that the limit be raised…….RAISE IT!!!!! Everyone I talked to said that they just call their bank and they raise it for them over the phone, at that exact moment.
whatever.
My computer is on it’s way and my blood pressure will go down wants it arrives and gets put to work :-) My poor computer is begging me to give it a break. It’s like it’s throwing it’s version of a “fit” and refusing to do anything I ask it to do. Seriously- this sneak peek alone as taken me over 3 days to get ready. Editing ONE photo can take an hour and uploading the hi-res pictures….well, that takes DAYS. This is not helping my extreme editing backlog. When I say extreme- I mean EXTREME!!!! Just thinking about how much editing I have to catch up on- it just makes me sick to my stomach. On top of my computer being just flat-out done with me, my parents internet is also horrible with uploading. We’ve just found out that their internet speed is HORRIBLE. Apparently, the absolute slowest it’s supposed to be is a 1.5 and theirs is at a .8 I have this theory that AT&T is just messing with people like my parents. My parents don’t know what “internet speed” is, they don’t know how fast it’s supposed to be going…they just want wireless…they’re not going to know if AT&T is saying they’ll give them one thing and then turning around and giving them complete junk.
So anyway- this slooowww uploading speed means that my hi-res pictures upload at the speed of a snail. It will browse the internet and upload low-res pictures just fine, but when it comes to doing my stuff…it’s a no go. So basically what I’m saying is that it’s pretty darn impossible for me to get any work done in Kirksville and I’ve been here since Wednesday, doing lots and lots of shoots but not getting really any editing done.
OK- now I planned on posting some sneak peeks from Wednesday, but of course my pictures are showing up as red x’s and not uploading. So this is my decision- I’m not even going to worry about posting sneak peeks till I get back to St. Louis. For now I will just edit what I can get edited and wait on my new computer. I will do a MASSIVE post when I get back to St. Louis on Monday night. It will be as many sneak peeks as I can get done. Probably Wednesday thru Saturday shoots and then my Sunday & Monday shoots will be posted later in the week. Sound good?
I’ll also have to work around my crazy travel schedule. I’m in Kirksville and I’ve been here since Wednesday. I’ll leave tomorrow evening to go work and do some shoots in St. Louis, then I’ll head back to Kirksville on Thursday with Sara & her kids in tow. That’s correct- I’m going back to St. Louis for about 2 days and then driving straight back to Kirksville for the weekend. Then I go to Kansas City to shoot a wedding next weekend :-) I’ve done 11 shoots in the past 5 days…. pretty please hang in there and know that I WILL get your pictures to you if it kills me :-) I wont have ETA’s on sessions until I get my computer in & running, but I will post my progress on the blog.
Have I exhausted you??? or just annoyed you with my whining??? I have a feeling my mother is going to go with option #2 :-) She’s never liked whiners. I tend to get whiny when I’m stressed or annoyed, but I like to think of it as “venting” and not whining. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if she would start whining every now and then ;-)
(P.S.- I should note that I’ve had my computer for about 5 years now and it has been turned on for just about it’s entire life. It rarely get’s completely turned off. It has run Photoshop & lightroom 24 hours a day and it used to have Auto CAD running all the time. It was a very good computer- it’s just old now and it’s definitely had a lot of wear & tear. Anyway- just thought I should point that out. )
Leah says
I’m sure the pictures will be worth the wait. =) Thanks for a couple of great shoots!
Kathy says
Hang in there! I’ll be praying for you!
Sara says
Now – where is the computer being shipped to???? That is always a fun challenge considering you travel about 80% of the time!
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http://cool-test-here.com
Salvatore Arendale says
very cool
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