I had big intentions Friday, but sometimes life throws you a curveball and you have to do whatever you have to do to keep your head above the water!

Timeline of my big Friday Plans to improve the www.Moneyreasons.com website

• 4:00 – I get off work, I have some big plan for revamping pieces of my website tonight!  I can’t wait to sink my teeth into it after dinner!  The kids are home, they want to play with the turtles (we have 3 very small turtles, 1 is only 2 weeks old).  Don’t tell my wife, but I like them too 😉
• 4:45 – The wife and I talk about dinner and the plans  for the weekend in general.  I’m still exited about revamping pieces of my website, but we talk for about 45 minutes.  It’s cool, though… It’s still all good.
• 5:30 – My boss calls me, he need me to remote into work at 10:30pm to work on something.  That’s hours away, I’m cool with that.
• 5:45 – Time to get Pappa John’s pizza (yum it was good)!
• 6:30 – Finally I’m on the computer, First I try to put twitter icon back on, but the graphics don’t line up well.  I get tired so I shelf it for another day.  I start thinking about drawing something for Saturdays post on the www.moneyreasons.com website.   I wonder if I can still draw as well as I could when I was a teenager? Hmmm.
• 7:30 – I’m playing with my Banner Header now.  I have a graphic, but it’s only the title words “Money Reasons“, I wonder if anyone realized that I changed it a week ago?  Another Hmmm.
• 8:15 – Oh no!  Something that’s not suppose to happen to a seasoned techie like me, happens!!!  I inadvertently, save my header code over my style.css code… Aughh!  My theme is no longer recognized and my site looks horrible, panic sets in!!!
• 9:00 – I’m still fighting this issue.  My website still comes up, but without the theme…  It looks horrible!
• 9:20 – I finally get it back, but I lose all the work I did on the banner earlier.  Grrr.
• 9:30 – After poking around I’m satisfied that my website is working again!  Whew.  My daughter wants to me to read her a bedtime story.  So we start to read… Zzzzz.
• 10:45 – I fell asleep!  My wife wakes me up saying I thought you had to work at 10:30?
• 10:50 – I scramble to log into the systems at work, ready to apologize to the guy that I was going to help.
• 10:51 – I connect to the VPN where I work!  I start to IM the guy (POW)
• 10:52 – I get disconnected from the VPN where I work!
• 10:53 – I realize the problem is on my side!  I call my ISP and they said “Yeah, we’re replacing a piece of hardware on the routers down here because one of them is acting flaky“.  But I need the connect to work, I exclaim.  They say oh it should take no more than a few minutes.
• 11:35 – Aliens must have abducted my ISP support because that few minute took almost 45 minutes!!!  I hope the aliens were more gentle than I would have been… or do I?
• 11:40 – I reconnect back to the VPN of my day job and do what needed to be done.  Now I think about the humorous article I wanted to post for this coming Saturday.
• 11:50 – I’m too frustrated and it’s too late to do anything other than complain.
• Now –  Well, the post isn’t the funny post I hoped it would be, but it is interesting and shows how when we plan for something, it doesn’t always happen the way we hoped it would play out..

Have a Great Weekend!  Life is funny sometime!

If you have a similar story please do tell!

-MR