So I’m just about at the end of my rope with the BOTSG subscription email. It’s like someone created it with the sole intention of twisting my melon you know? It works. It doesn’t work. Then it works again. Sometimes it says that it worked, by sending me confirmation that all my subscribers have had their skinny mail but really it’s a big fat lie, because I’m on the subscriber list and despite assurances to the contrary, mine doesn’t arrive. If I get mine, I know you got yours, right?
Take yesterday for example. Yesterday it said all the emails had been delivered. I stalked my inbox for a while, and nothing. I even roped my boy into being a subscriber as a double-check last time it fell over, and yesterday his didn’t come either. So, about twenty minutes after I published the post I went into the widget and sent a manual notification email to the posse. And still, my inbox contained only tumbleweed…no skinny mail.
I’m irritated by this point, right? It’s pushing my buttons because I hate it when things don’t work like they should. According to the widget history it had sent not one, but two manual emails as well as the automatic one. Great. My posse are going to either get no email like me, or three emails. Surely it’s not beyond the wit of man to make it work, I mean that widget has one job.
It’s been a tough week so far. I’d worked really late the night before and yesterday was a long day off the back of not much sleep. So I definitely wasn’t feeling the love, in fact the whole situation made me disproportionately mad. So what did I do..? I ate quiche.
Now, we all know that eating quiche is practically against the law if you’re on a limited food budget. It was only a small one, and I just about scraped through without dinting my food budget but once again, I’m repeating the same pattern over and over. Get mad, and eat.
For my own future reference, eating quiche didn’t make me feel better. As I took my second mouthful, the first skinny mail dropped into my in-box, followed in quick succession by two more. So now I had three skinny mails, and realisation dawned that not only had I more than likely pissed off the posse by bombarding y’all with multiple versions of the same email, I had no points left for the rest of the evening. Terrific. Damn quiche was the size of a postage stamp. Was it worth it..? No was it chuff.
To my subscribers, I’m sorry about the emails…I’m going to look for a new widget this weekend 🙂
Yesterday wasn’t a good day, but I made it. Just.
I guess I should be glad I use the Old Reader as the place where all my new posts show up. Otherwise I would have wondered what was going on! Glad to know you’re moving right along, dealing with stress but not going overboard. You’re in my thoughts daily. 🙂
Hello lovely! Yes I should imagine a few of the posse were thinking maybe I’d been at the gin ?
Oh the demon widget! They are supposed to save us time and effort and we spend ourselves hours of frustration saving us hours of..well, frustration. I hate when you blow food budget on stuff that isn’t worth it! Chuff is right!
I know! 🙂
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires technology, as i’ve said since the late 1970’s. Or, as Douglas Adams put it, “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
My tendency is to eat when i’m angry with my Sweetie. No, it doesn’t help.
For what it’s worth, i’d rather get 2-3 emails about something than none, but i just read you on my blog roll to make it easier for me.
A few people have said that to me Mimi, about preferring to get more emails than no emails. I guess I was worried because of my own dislike for being bombarded with email. Tech, tsk!!
Well you summed up my snowbound weekend LOL – stress eating galore – sorry – and computer stuff can be SO frustrating because it seems sometimes that there’s no rhyme or reason – I got three – not complaining but just giving info in case it helps you figure it out! Weird.
Quiche – not my thing. Now cookies are another story . . . whichI am trying VERY hard not to eat right now [no, we don’t have any in the house . . . but there’s dough in the freezer and I do own an oven . . . but I won’t – sigh]
Ah see now look what you’ve gone and done Cherie…you just purchased cookie insurance my friend 🙂 That’s it, the eyes of the posse are all over you…step away from the dough!!! x
I don’t read blogs via email. I have a “dashboard” where, in my own time, I go and check for new posts by people I follow. Works for me, and isn’t distracting.
Phew, well that’s at least one of our gang that I don’t need to worry about upsetting with an avalanche of email then!
I received 3 notifications. I just figured it was a goof. Don’t stress, it’s not a big deal. Maybe you needed the lesson about not turning to quiche 🙂
You might be right Jo…another hundred ‘lessons’ like that and I might get the message eh?!
Dee, I cherish the fantasy of your keynote speech at the Blog Oscars – on the subject of The Widget Wars & Blokes With Spanners. Your pal will get to pick out her splashy dress, whether or not your infant blog gets short-listed.
Love U Loa, F.
Haha you reckon..? Tell you what, I’d have half a chance of getting it fixed if the bloke with the spanner wasn’t insisting there’s nothing wrong with it! I’m just about to send a manual notification for today’s post because the sodding thing hasn’t worked, again!
No harm, no foul. You are doing spectacular. I only mention my duplicate notifications (not in any way annoyed!) to confirm yr knowledge that the widget gremlins were playing with you.
Keep letting us know, Hon: we are REALLY sympathizing as we ROFL….
Garnfunnit, I hear you (all) about the continuing assaults on the Sweet Spot by the old triggers. It isn’t even particularly irresistible food, grrrr.
Random stressors… Only thing I managed, when I bit into that superfluous item, thinking SIMULTANEOUSLY of all the heads-up warnings & messages, was to put the sodding slice down because the first bite had done nothing for me. Went to bed.
Hah! Keep the faith! Technotorture is the least of our hurdles, right? Lovin U Loa, Fleury
It is Fleury, in the grand scheme of things…but the gremlins are still there. According to the widget today, all emails have been sent, but nobody I know has actually had one. I’ll give it till maybe 9pm then send a manual one…bloody thing does my head in!
I think the emotional eating thing is a tough mountain to climb! Even after 11 months I still want to reach for food when something has gone wrong or I’m generally having a bad day. Sometimes I can resist but other times I can’t! It is always going to be a work in progress for me.
I understand that the whole email thing is frustrating but I would rather have the same mail 3 times than not at all ?
Well that’s good to know thanks Claire…I’m always nervous in case folk get fed up or think I’m spamming them…two of the posse packed their knapsack and took themselves off the list last night, I’m assuming because after getting 3 emails they think I’m some kind of stalker! And re the emotional eating, yes it’s a work in progress for me too…I suspect forever! 🙂