At what point did the world make such a strange turn? Have you seen Stranger Things? Are we in the upside-down? Or are we in the matrix?
I’m one of those people where the world generally tends to make sense, but in the past few months there’s been some little things that seem like the world is going off on a bizarre tangent. Such is my week.
As this week is getting started I’ve had one issue after another that has set me on a path of putting out odd fires that shouldn’t have started in the first place.
To start, my distributor failed to add some pertinent information in to the last 5 weeks of releases. That is easy to rectify, but it shouldn’t have happened due to the fact that they acknowledged the information prior to release. Argh.
Moving on to two nights ago, my podcast website had a crazy issue with only one table in the database. It stemmed from the transition from the old server to the new one. The table appeared to be ok, but after several weeks of use, it proved that everything worked but that one table. It took 5 hours to solve. It should have only taken 1 hour or less.
Next up, there’s another tech issue I won’t bore you with, it was working and suddenly got hosed without any intervention. Needless to say it’s going on hours of wasted time attempting to get it working again.
Earlier yesterday, I was in a need to restart my computer after working with a musician friend over screen share. During which my headphone output suddenly stopped. This was a software issue. The restart got the audio output working again, but it caused my workstation software to require being authorized again.
In the effort of getting the software authorized again, it wasn’t working. A quick call to a friend had me restarting the computer again. Upon the 2nd restart – all was working again. What in the world?!?
I’d say this also translates to the recent switch made by an NFL team. The coyotes moved to Utah last year. They spent a year being the Utah Hockey Club – ooh, there’s a real winning name (not). Then they decided to throw a few names out to fans.
The end result is the Utah Mammoth. Which is a tad strange because Utah is not known for mammoths. Snow, yes. Mammoths, no. Either way, in my recent updates of all things sports, I’ve finally gotten around to doing a version of Do You Want to Play Utah Mammoth.
Am I happy there is a professional hockey team here now, yes. In fact they do off season training in my home town. Will be nice to run into some of the players from time to time.
Here’s to fixing old issues and resetting to the world to right-side up!
Stay tuned…