I had wondered why it was taking me so long to download World of Warcraft patches when it was taking others mere minutes to do so. Then one day at the b/f's house I happened to notice the background downloader doing a pre-download for the next patch and I thought to myself "Huh, why doesn't mine do that". I knew it should do it; I remembered it doing so in the past, but I couldn't recall it having done so lately. That's when I noticed WoW telling me content for the next patch was available and that the downloader would, well, download the content the next time I exited WoW. As you have probably figured out, it did not do so. So I started investigating and discovered that my background downloader does not work at all. I have spent hours of my life trying to fix it at this point. I have moved things around and renamed files. Even all the methods for fixing it I found in my google search have failed. I've been sitting here for an hour this morning giving it another go at fixing it.

Well, I did finally fix it. Ya know what did it? Well do ya? Guess. I deleted the file for the downloader out of the WoW folder. Yep, it was that simple. After I did that and then tried to start up WoW it just kind of fixed itself. Good thing I wasted all those hours renaming files, updating windows xp, and a million other things. I suppose the good thing is that it finally forced me to install all those updates I've been putting off installing.

So, the good news is, it's running and dowloading now. The bad news: I appear to behind a firewall which is slowing it down. And it doesn't matter what I do to the firewall.....I'm still behind it. All that work to be fowled up by the firewall!! Good thing I've got all day since WoW won't be back up until this afternoon. I do not have the patience to sit here any longer and figure out the firewall situation. I'm going to go crawl back in to my nice warm bed for a few hours before work and forget all about this patch and firewall nonsense. Sometimes, technology just sucks......

I can't sleep.  I haven't slept for more than an hour a night for a few weeks now and I'm so very tired.  Tonight I was exhausted so I laid down and started to drift off slowly.  Next thing I know I'm wide awake pondering what project I would like to start on next.  I just want to sleep.  I don't think that's too much to ask.  I hear sleep is good, but I've been without it for so long now that I wouldn't know anymore.  ::sigh:: 

This is not new to me.  The last time this happened I didn't sleep for more than an hour a night for a year and half.  I would drag through the week until I collapsed in a coma mid day on Saturday or Sunday.  The kind of coma where you can hear everything that is going on around you but you can't respond.  My body would just be so exhausted it couldn't go.  I tried every natural remedy I could find.  I resorted to sleeping pills which didn't help.  Let's hope I'm not going through that again.  In the end, that last spell was brought on by prolonged periods of stress.  Somehow I'm pretty sure that is what is happening here.  My job is finally not stressing me out anymore, but I have plenty of anxiety over other aspects of my life at the moment.  Maybe I should sort through those other things, figure out what I can do to not be stressed, and maybe de-clutter my life a bit.  Sounds like a plan to me.  So off I go to try and get back to sleep.  Maybe I'll count some sheep.  Some spotted sheep.  Or some purple sheep wearing sunglasses and straw hats.  Yeah, that's what I'll do.....  See, that lack of sleep is not making me loopy at all.  Not at all....

This summer has been weird.  I can't get into specific details because that would breaking some contract rules and such.  However I just want to say that there has been much more drama in the craft loft this summer than I bargained for.  Fortunately some things are getting taken care of now and it should be peaceful :::crosses fingers:: for my remaining two weeks.  Two weeks and I am home.  Going home has never sounded so good.

Who would have thought that out of the entire theatre (or in this case opera) that the center of so much drama would be in costumes.  I find that this holds true in every theatre I've ever worked in.  The costume shop seems to be the hub of much drama and all gossip.  If you want to find something out about someone or a group,  you just stop on by the costume shop.  Now that being said, I work in crafts.  We describe ourselves as the red headed step child of the costume shop.  We know nothing until we find it out from the costume shop, usually at lunch.  However, we have managed to create our own drama (ha take that costume shop, we brought in our own drama).  It has been quite the summer....

Ok, so after much fussing with the theme choices and all that jazz I'm finally posting something.  Just a short and sweet hello to get me started (though as much as I love to talk and share, I'm sure more lengthy posts will follow this one).  I'm not one hundred percent sure exactly what I'm writing about on here other than just randomness from my life.  Maybe this will be a good way to keep others informed about what's happening with me.  I probably have about a million things going on right now that I could post about, but I think I'll save that for later when I can manage more organized thoughts and less random ranting.  Although, my random rantings might prove to be much more interesting than my organized thoughts.  I guess we will see what happens.  Until then, I'll probably be sitting around playing with the settings on this thing and thinking about the many things I might post here (or the many things I should keep to myself). So until later.