I haven't written for the last three days. Withdrawals are making me grumpy.
As I mentioned Monday, DH tried to be sweet and valentine-y on Sunday by taking me out for dinner and a movie. The one positive thing this week, even though the movie didn't live up to what we had hoped.
Monday was the truly sucky part. I took DH's dad (aka Papa) to a second opinion appointment in Toledo. Bless the doctor, he tried to make it as easy as possible on Papa, but he confirmed there is a tumor. I will subsequently refer to the tumor as Muffy because DH's family frown on me calling it Mother Fucker.
The confirmation meant being emotionally supportive for Papa for a few extra hours. (Not Muffy, however. Muffy can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.) I think some part of him believes since I got DH through his cancer, I'll get him through his.
By the time I got home Monday evening, I was exhausted. I could barely chop up the ham to add to the soup beans. Thank goddess, I picked something easy to make for dinner. I curled up on the couch and watched the Grammys for the rest of the evening.
Yesterday, I tried to do something semi-productive after sleeping thirteen hours. I went through the 150 e-mails that had piled up over the last two weeks as we dealt with moving the in-laws into an assisted living apartment. One of the e-mails was a rather threatening one from Amazon saying that I need to turn on my Kindle's wi-fi NOW for an upgrade, or my Kindle becomes a paperweight.
Um, okay? I confirmed it was in fact from Amazon, but the help page regarding this required OS upgrade didn't have a lot of details, so I e-mail a couple of questions to Amazon.
For a company that prides itself on customer service, they have some of the most computer/device illiterate people on the face of the planet. Granted, I did ask a couple of technical question, but Jesus Heronius Christ! They should at least know how big the OS download is vs. the size of my 2nd Gen. Kindle's harddrive space!
The e-mail I received in reply made absolutely no sense, as if the CS person didn't bother to read my original e-mail. But, hey! Since I had trouble with the fucking upgrade Amazon would give me a $5 credit to buy e-books.
*facepalm*
Whatever was supposed to go through the wi-fi didn't work right (long story, won't bore you with the details) so I tried calling Amazon. The second CS person Raven didn't listen to me either. Because my issue was outside of her realm, she started to obviously read from a script. Then, she wouldn't let me get off the phone because she hadn't finished reading her fucking script!
Yeah, I know. I should have just hung up. *sigh*
Anyway, I backed up my Kindle and figured out how to do the manual upgrade before I got the e-mail from Raven with the links to the manual upgrade's download.
As for my poor abused 2nd Gen Kindle, so far, so good. Everything seems to be working. But if I wanted to be condescended to, I would have called Apple.
Or my mother.
After that, I curled up on the couch once again and binged on Supernatural and The Librarians.
Now, it's Wednesday. I printed off the 1099s, etc., from e-mails that I'll need for taxes. I'm going to Panera's in a little bit to see if I can get some writing done before I delve into to tax forms over the weekend.
And maybe later, I'll find something I want to read with that $5 credit that'll make me forget about Papa's upcoming surgery.
Yeah, cancer sucks far worse than Amazon on their worst days.
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Wow, sounds like you're having a sucktastic week. :( Best wishes to Papa; I'll keep a set of virtual fingers crossed for him.
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking of getting a dedicated Kindle, since I do little with my Fire except read e-books, and supposedly the organization options on the Kindle are better. (?) If I do, though, I'll make a mental note to get a new-gen Kindle and not an older one, to avoid upgrade fun-and-jollies for as long as possible. :P
Blog stuff is piling up on me (let's not even talk about e-mail) 'cause I'm buried in workshop stories. 'Cause I was a slackass for the first half of the month. [cough]
Writing, what's writing...? :/
Angie
I know that super-busy feeling. I did get some words in last night, so I feel much better now. :D
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