Dateline 2-7-2016

Damn it, the heat is already returning :(

I forgot how much I hate the weather here in San Diego and spent most of last year anxiously awaiting the winter. It took forever and winter finally arrived. I was happy for about two months but last night I actually had to sleep with the fan on.

What a short lived moment of joy?

Speaking of short lived moments of joy, this week has been so frustrating and I was on such a good track. At the start of the week I wrapped up a couple pages for a side project that I am working on and was happy to move on to the next step.

Even this started fine.

I completed the WordPress segment of my web development class and sat down to do my assignment. I found a theme that I like, I found a tutorial on how to build the site that I want to fulfill my needs for the assignment and I even found a premium plug-in to streamline my efforts but then...

The plug-in didn't work because something wasn't set up through my hosting site. I did some searching and everything pointed to simply contacting my hosting service and asking them to activate a module.

Seems simple enough.

I've spent that rest of the week bouncing back and forth with technical support only to finally be told the best option is to upgrade my hosting to a premium. That answer wasn't working for me because I'm already paying for this hosting service and in my research I found free hosts that will work with this plug-in without a glitch.

Today I was finally able to set up my WordPress page on a free hosting site and it works fine. I'm now pissed that I'm stuck with this other hosting service that I signed up to for a year to test it out.

I guess that's a problem of using paid services during the learning phase. There are just some things I don't even know to look for because up until now I've only used templates based web building.

Then to top things off, I bought a new toy, that I can't wait to share, that broke after one day so now I'm back in the customer service loop to get this thing replaced.

I don't think this return is going to be that hard it's just going to take another week of waiting to get the replacement.

I'm tired of all the waiting my life is made up of. I just want something positive to happen now.

Oh well, we'll see what happens.

See you tomorrow.