Bring back the abacus and slide rule!

Today was ‘technological disaster day’, in that it was a bit like ‘no smoking day’ except for the fact that the technology abstains rather than the smoker. Even before the day started, my situation wasn’t ideal because my laptop had been sent away (again!) for fixing and I had forgotten to copy over my email settings to my temporary machine. A lot of lovely customers had been telephoning thinking I was ignoring their emails and I wasn’t. How much of a donkey do I feel making such a fundamental schoolboy error? My superhero nickname (when I am wearing underpants outside of my trousers) is usually ‘Backup Woman’.

Pic. No. 1 Becks stressing about how she is going to distribute a full container of furniture throughout the UK in less than 3 days. Either that or she is playing ‘one potato, two potato’ with herself.

Anyway, today we were expecting a really important container (it is stuffed with everything that needs to shipped out the building as soon as it arrives), when Juan’s machine also broke down (I know that I make computers sound as though they are petrol-powered, but they are just not my ‘thang’!), so he couldn’t work out which orders to get lined up. On top of that I managed to kill my temporary computer by working on too many large files at the same time. It wasn’t until 11.15am that we managed to get everything back on its feet. It was carnage. In fact, if I were to analogise our technological scenario today with ‘eating out’, it would be the equivalent of buying a KFC Family bucket and putting it through a bark-chipper.

I digress. At last! Our computers were up and running, I could get back into the photo studio to finish off all the images for the new products that I have to launch before I can go on holiday. However, despite dressing 2 pieces of furniture, I was only able to take one photograph before all the rechargeable batteries for the cataloguing camera died simultaneously. It was like an AA+ suicide pact. GRRRRRR! That was the photo studio down for a day.

Before I go, please accept my apologies about the gratuitous use of exclamation marks in this post. Technological issues always result in this symptom – I think that it’s because exclamation marks are the written equivalent of a fake smile / grimace ;-)