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Today started as most days tend to, wake up, get ready for the day ahead, take Ahto for a walk. Business as usual wasn’t meant to last though, as reports from a client at work starting coming in that their site was slow and was even showing time out errors. We’ve seen this happen before so I know what to do and how to fix it.

So it gets fixed.

Only to be followed by another set of same error messages, but this time for a different client. Luckily the errors were coming from a third party and there was nothing we could do, and they did end up getting resolved by the third party.

Two rough, stressful, and annoying instances on a Friday, but you get used to that kind of thing.

What you don’t get used to though is using Excel and Word, especially when you have to use them both. Moving data from one to the other. My ears are getting hot from just thinking about it. How absurdly horrible those two things are, and just how frustrating it must be for a person who isn’t tech savvy to fix those issues, and it’s not just formatting issues. Random invisible character and cell divisions that appear and you can delete them by deleting the content… I’ll stop there. ARGH!

On a more positive side of things, I’ve been updating and improving this site in the evenings, and even have an idea for a blog post that I really want to write. It needs some research and thought first though.