I shouldn't remember, but i do...huh?

Saturday November 22, 2008 at 11:49pm stress, frustration, false memories Comments (0) »

Ever have a very specific and vivid memory of something that never happened? Specifically, ever remember doing something that you never actually did? I do. In fact, I *very clearly* remember doing something that circumstance indicates I never actually did.

See, I'd have bet anything that I both received new license tags for the jeep *and* put said license tag on. Despite these memories, it seems this didn't actually happen. On top of that, after a couple hours of searching, we were unable to find the renewed registration & tag, which we think we received(...?). Either we never did receive them, or they accidentally got thrown away at some point or something... ...and somewhere along the line, a memory of this situation being taken care of was fabricated from thin air.

The problem here is, the jeep is now two months expired...so we get to call the county clerk on monday and find out what we can do to get this taken care of asap....you know, so we can legally drive places. Ugh.

~PS

Hey, I have an idea

Friday August 8, 2008 at 12:09pm web development, frustration Comments (3) »

When your website has about 300 pages, how about lets not actually code the menu 300 separate times - i.e., one for each page. How about lets write the menu code *once* in an external file, then we'll just call that on every page. Huh? Sound good? You know, just in case some poor sap comes in later and has to change something in the menu... ...cause you know, it would total suck to have to go into 300 different html files and change one line in the menu...

...no, no...that would be far, far too easy...

~PS

Press Enter to Bang Head on Keyboard

Wednesday June 20, 2007 at 11:57am job, web development, frustration Comments (5) »

I really wish I wasn't continually asked to do inane, mindless tasks. I realize this is unavoidable to a certain extent, but I feel like my skills are being wasted on things I'm reasonably sure our dog Ally could do.

This is not what I do. I don't *like* spending hours changing html text, when I could be developing new web apps and/or modules for our system or even designing new and better ways of doing our job.

But no.

"Change 'Text X' to say 'The Text X'" (real, actual example)

grr.

sigh.

~PS