A Time Change of Confusion!

Is it the 3-hour time zone difference body clock rebellion?

Is it the whiplash of Springing Forward an extra hour yesterday making it a 4 hour time difference of “What time is it anyway?!”

Maybe it’s the fact that there were only 3 days to try to settle in before kicking off to Chicago this morning. (And going an hour backwards?)

Perhaps it was the changing technology and all that comes with it, but I am trying to find my sense of humor in all that has slowed me down over the past three days, starting with the fact that I discovered yesterday that I had lost…..LOST!!!….my Asilomar pay check.  WHAT?!  Where?  Oh, my goodness, how??

I can see it in my mind, I opened the envelope, was going to put the check and the stub in with the other checks in my backpack, thought better of it and……Did I set it down?  Did I pitch it with the other trash?

I honestly don’t know.  But I feel like an idiot.  Nothing is as embarrassing as asking someone to issue another check.  And this is the second time it has happened since January.

Time to slow down perhaps?  I hope the powers that be take pity on me, cancel the old one and issue me a new one or I just worked Asilomar for free.

And THEN there were the PHONE issues!

I sent out many pleas for help.  It all started with Instagram.  From within Instagram I can (Or could, before new phone!) choose to share any post over to either Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr – or all three by clicking buttons.  Only I kept getting either the error shown on the left, or the endless “enter your email and password” loop that would never take.

Google searches didn’t come up with anything, and because the new phone wouldn’t connect to my old pebble watch – I threw up my hands, went to Costco, picked up a Samsung watch to go with my Samsung phone and made a beeline to talk to the guys at the Verizon desk.

After telling them what all I had done to resolve the issue, proving to them I was just not some middle-age computer illiterate woman with a little sewing page (HA!) we came up with a solution that I thought was brilliant. 

Upon my return home I used a dummy account on Instagram to see if I could get Twitter and Tumblr to link. No problem there! The difference between the 2 accounts? The real one was a business profile, and the dummy one was not.

I returned my business profile to personal, and I was able to get it to connect to both Twitter and Tumblr. I then reset it from personal back to business and all is well! 

Perseverance wins the day!  And for those who don't get it, don't worry about it - it isn't your life, but I'm glad it is solved as part of what goes on behind the scenes here to make this all happen.

(If you don't know what Tumblr is, it's a non-instagram, non-facebook place to share those daily posts that you can read and follow without having to have an account.)

But can you guess what time this all took?  When I would have rather have been doing Quilt-Cam?  Again, I felt like an idiot and until the issue was solved, I just couldn’t move forward with what I should have been doing.

Too many plates spinning!

It was while packing, and double checking what had been shipped ahead that I realized that I had forgotten to add Essential Triangle Tools to my order for all 3 Illinois guilds.  I have 4 classes this coming week, 3 out of the 4 have 50 students each.  OY VEY!

I am now carrying a box of 40 rulers in a roll aboard suitcase as well as checking my 2 quilt bags and clothing suitcase at the counter this morning.  A priority mail box of more rulers is also being shipped out today for the 3rd leg of my trip.

Oh, TSA is going to love THIS when it goes through the scanner!

Which reminds me, I need to ship some of those ahead to Iowa as well.  Can I do it before my 6am airport departure this morning?!

This also was going on at 4am this morning….because I can’t sleep.

I need a new SSL certificate for my website to make it secure, and it was supposed to be active within 4 hours, but alas – it wasn’t.  I was on tech support at 4-something to try to get this sorted.  AUUGHH!!  First world computer problems!  Hopefully it will be resolved by the time I land in Chicago.

SOME of this happened!

The editing and re-editing process is in full swing, and this is what the view from my monitor looked like for the rest of what was available yesterday.  I made it through 2 of 3 parts, the rest will have to be dealt with while on the road.

There was a little bit of Emmy Lou purring to calm my nerves at the end of a very weird run around day.  Click to play:

A post shared by Bonnie K Hunter (@quiltville_bonnie) on Mar 12, 2018 at 1:25am PDT

Now lest you think that this whole post is one big whine – I assure you it isn’t.  It’s more of “throw my hands up in the air and laugh” because, well – what ELSE can you do?

And as I’m typing this, my 6am alarm just went off (on the new phone) and I am going to hit upload, head to the shower and get this day of heading out in full swing.

We’ll be back to your quilty content as soon as I reach Illinois!  I’m not sure what the plan is for today, but those kitted up blocks that I took to Asilomar are in my suitcase, and Cathy is loaning me her featherweight.

Maybe a bit of stitching, pressing, and fabric fondling will put all that is in a whirl in my world back on track!

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

And what fun would it be if all days were the same, and ran as expected with no surprises?

Have a wonderful Monday, everyone!