To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. -Paul Ehrlich
Having a hell of a day, and it’s not even 11am.
I’m trying to order samples from a company that carries several base yarns I’ve been trying to find. However, my email clients are not cooperating. Each time I send mail, it sends it from a different address - it doesn’t help that I have four of them, either. To make it worse, one of the clients only works with two accounts (and not the other two), and the second client works with the other two (but not the previous two), and today they are constantly vying for email dominance. And for the right to be the client that gets to open a new email when I click on an email link. Normally, they behave. But not today. Outlook Express and Thunderbird… ugh.
Currently, I’ve sent emails to the wholesaler from three different accounts (WTF!). I can only imagine what kind of unorganized ditz I appear to be! Really, I’m not unorganized when it comes to email. I have my little folders, and my business account and my family-only account and the spam account, and the old business address that sometimes gets mail. It’s all compartmentalized for easy searching, reading, archiving. But NOT TODAY. Nooooo, not today. Today, when I am actually trying to conduct business with a potential supplier, my email clients completely and totally spaz out on me.
The icing on the cake is that they are in Canada and I am in the US - which means importation, customs, shipping regulations, brokers and lots of other rather intimidating words that I have not had to use in my daily business vocabulary to date. (Aka: I R N00B.) New legal-type stuff + spazzing email clients + five hours of sleep + sick kid + running on Diet Coke = Full On Panic Mode. I’m just waiting for my ears to smoke and for my head to spin like a top on my shoulders… and then promptly explode.
Really, I know it’s not *that* big of a deal. I should also know to expect it - Murphy’s Law and all. And I know that Shit happens in business, and getting computers involved only creates more opportunities for aforementioned Shit to go wrong. So, deep breath and back away from the computers.
Considering the streak I’m on, I’m actually a bit worried about trying to dye yarn today. Visions of the microwave exploding, yarn catching fire in a bonfire of dye-colored blazing glory and spilling all of something all over everything keep flashing through my head. Then again, I did manage to get dressed today, and everything appears to be right side out and facing forwards. Maybe the email stuff is just a blip in the cosmic chaos radar… but do I really want to test that? 
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Radcliffe