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So how is the two-computer setup going now, Erin?

Oh, God. Don’t even. I had a really important editing job that needed to be done quickly so I was waiting before ordering the new computer (and I’ve decided to go with a Windows computer — long story), so I am still doing the two-computer thing. Except I am not really using the main one, except to do one thing for one client that requires a specific program that’s only on the main. Because it is extremely dodgy at this point. So I am spending 90% of my time on the spare. It’s going. I was finally able to do a Facebook call on it today! That was cool. It hasn’t worked until now. So one good thing. Although the volume was completely borked. I had it up to the highest setting and I could still hardly hear my friend. I’ve had issues with files saving. Even after freaking checking the dates and times to see if they saved. Even after getting that lovely “do you want to overwrite this file?” message. THEY DON’T FREAKING SAVE. I am not kidding. I’d go to pull a file up from the day before and none of my changes would be there…a serious problem when you are editing and you are on a deadline. So I started emailing myself the file every day after I was done. The one day I freaking needed that emailed file? IT WOULDN’T LOAD. I’m telling you, I’ve never had so many problems in my entire life with…

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Not Dying.

Earlier this month, I wrote up a post with my goals on it for the next 30 days in a forum I frequent and I literally wrote as one of my goals “To not die.” Seriously. The past, oh, year has been particularly rough, not just because of the pandemic, but because of severe sleep deprivation. Things just aren’t going well in dreamland, and I have been feeling like crap — and my overall functioning hasn’t been 100%. Obvi. But to add insult to injury, technology has, once again, given me the finger. My phone, which is a fairly new iPhone 12 Mini, began inexplicably not returning to my home network after I was out and about. We ended up running through a whopping 75% of our data plan and got a text about it — gee, thanks AT&T — and finally I figured out the problem. Because I was the culprit, and we’d had a power outage recently, and yes, I had been checking my email (for business purposes!), but not that much. Sheesh. So I figured out that after coming home from the vet and finding myself still on cellular and not on Wi-Fi. Many hours later. Ugh. An update fixed that. But not after struggling with it for weeks. Then my battery started draining extremely quickly. I mean, lightning fast. That’s still kind of happening? A bit. It’s improved after the update, but I still feel like it’s not in keeping with my usage. And my battery…

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