Blogaroo

Being awake at 4am has few things going for it. But I glossed over the four hours sleep part (four hours? Ouch.) and got on with the ever growing list of things to do.  It’s much easier to work when there are no distractions like regularly updated blogs and news websites, when A isn’t around to distract, when you get to have that smug glow of, “hey, all of these people aren’t even up and I’m doing work!”. I can only wonder how amazing a person I would be if they’d never invented the internet, although it would make working as a web designer somewhat difficult (but saved me two hours in Photoshop this morning).

One of the most frustrating aspects of what I do is that I’m reliant on technology, and I’m reliant on it working. While A has a little smidgen of control over the server, I’d be lost if something happened when he wasn’t around. I only realise that when working on another server altogether, a server that neither of us can control, one that currently won’t let me upload certain files but will allow others, one that is repeatedly asking for my password over and over again and will sometimes let me in and sometimes not.

Even the technology I do have some control over is annoying me right now - why has my laptop suddenly decided that I shouldn’t be allowed to shut it down, only log out or go onto standby? Why won’t my iPod let me listen to songs while charging via USB? Why can I never tell when my toast is ready without switching it off (and, inevitably, on again when my toast isn’t ready)?

Perhaps one day I will solve these problems, but I can’t do it right now - the internet is waking up, you know.