  I'm annoyed, and if you stick around, I'll tell you why. (yeah, I bet you didn't see that one coming a mile away! ) I have this project. Ok, it's a side-job. It's something that I'm supposed to be doing in my "free" time...which, as you all know, is fairly non-existent. It's this book...I have to take everything in the book (150 pgs) and type it into a spreadsheet.
For the most part, that's not really a big deal...except that there's the whole no-computer-at-home problem. And the bigger, not-supposed-to-be-working-on-side-project-during-work problem. So, I figured I'd be my smart little self and work on it during my SECOND job, where they don't really care what we do as long as we answer the phone when it rings and we don't download porn. Anyway...so I saved my little spreadsheet to a disk. I've done this before when working on stuff between jobs...both my primary employer and secondary employer run the same software package, so I'm covered. Except...when the disk doesn't work.
I got here, stuck the disk in, I was all happy about getting to work on my shit while I was here (and theoretically be getting paid for two jobs at once). I opened the A drive, I double clicked on my file....and nothing. Not one fucking thing. It didn't beep...it didn't blink...and it sure as hell didn't OPEN the file that I wanted to open. It did nothing. Soooo...being the crafty chick that I am, I said "Fine...be that way..I'll fix you..." and I tried to drag the file off the disk and onto the desktop.
I got some weird error message about how the file was inaccessible at this time, and to try again. What do you mean, inaccessible?! It's my god damned file...it will be accessed when I want to damn well access it!! So I tried again...same deal. I tried opening something else on the disk. Nada.
Things were getting ugly. I messed with the stupid little thing for a good 35 minutes and got nothing over and over again. Finally, in an attempt to salvage what little bit of temper I had a tenuous hold on, I quit. The disk, she no work. Me? Up shit creek.
Happy about it? not so much. I don't know if there's some little disk demon in this computer just chewing on my spreadsheet and not letting me open it or what, but I'm pissed about it. And since I now have nothing else to do this evening but sit here and stew, you're hearing about it. Have a lovely evening. 
