351. Holding a Grudge

I hope I'm not speaking too soon, but it appears that the comments are fixed, at least on my end.  I'm getting the emails.  Have any of you still had the five-minute scrolling circle of doom or the bizarre messages when trying to post a comment?  The thing that irks me slightly is that I didn't get an email from them saying, "We found the source of the problem and it's fixed.  Thank you for being a patient and supportive customer." 

A thing that irks me even more is the fact that I heard (read) echoes and echoes and echoes from other users, both Typepad users and blog commenters, that they were having the same problems and reporting the same problems, and they were also getting the canned response, "It's your email provider's fault, or it's your fault, or it's your firewall's fault."  Do they not notice a pattern when numerous identical problems are reported by numerous customers?

Irksome.

The self-imposed knitting moratorium is still on, and the tendinitis in my elbows is definitely receding.  But I'm irked that I can't knit -- quite miserable about it, actually -- when I have all this lovely time off 'til Saturday. Then I will have another marathon work day.  I have to be ready for it and I can't be hurting when I go in there, or I'll never make it through the day.  It's mid-year graduation, and I have to report for duty at 6:45 a.m.  I.V. coffee has been ordered.   

Meantime, though, did I mention days off?  Nice quiet days off, during which I can do prep work for the graduation in my bathrobe.  BUT I forgot to tell this to my alarm clock, which is set to go off every day at 5:30.  It went off, of course, yesterday morning at 5:30 and I bet you're not surprised to hear that it IRKED ME to no end.  I was disoriented and confused, wondering if I were or were NOT supposed to be somewhere.  But I convinced myself I was not, and I rolled over and spent the next two and a half hours in and out of sleep 'til nine-delicious-o'clock. Then I got up and had delicious figgy pudding and delicious coffee for breakfast and had a deliciously leisurely blog morning -- catching up on blogs, answering some emails.  My goodness, it was delicious. 

But I'm still irked.  I hold grudges; what can I say? I'm just cantankerous that way. 

Comments

[Kristen]

Enjoy those days off! You definitely deserve them. Long baths, cups of tea, figgy pudding, naps... Indulge yourself for once. Yes, that's an order!

[sandy]

I'm a grudge holder too. From way back. Can't help myself.
Enjoy your time. Well deserved!
xo

[Renee]

Sleeping in is my idea of the best way to start a great day off. Eat chocolate if you can't knit and enjoy your days off. I try really hard no to be ~ but I'm a grudge holder too.

[CindyCindy]

I'm sorry about the elbow and knitting. Sucks don't it? Enjoy your time until Saturday. Your alarm going off and the ensuing disorientation cracked me up. Sounded very very familiar.

[margene]

You should also be very irked about how ginger vodka continues to elude you. Commenting seems fine......now!

[Mary K. in Rockport]

I admit it's bizarre, but I like to sometimes set the alarm early for a morning I don't have to get up, just for the joy of going back to bed.

[gayle]

There are few things as emotionally satisfying as a good grudge well-held. (Ask me about our mortgage company... plenty of fuel there to keep me warm)
Enjoy your rest, and try not to get too twitchy with the not-knitting!

[Laurie]

I actually did get an email from Typepad that said it was fixed, thank you for being patient, and is it really fixed for you? It wasn't, but it appears now it is. I must have sent them 8 parts to the help ticket, including some of the comments that weren't getting sent to email. They thought it was related to whether a URL was included in the comment signature, but it wasn't, at least at my blog. We PAY for this. Sknitty documented how horrible it is to transfer everything to Wordpress. I'm bummed.

[marianne]

Gayle just cracked me up, 'good grudge well held'. Yes! Enjoy your leisurely days, good healing to your elbows and arms so you can get back to your knitting. Irksome pie.... quite an interesting flavour :^)

[Marcia]

That has always been my experience with Typepad...it's got to be my fault or my computer's fault or my cat's fault or. Not their fault. Ever. Until it is. Or we go round and round and then suddenly one of them goes "oh, it's really this simple little thing" and the issue is fixed. So far I haven't had too much of a problem with this latest "improvement".

Working on a case of tendinitis myself.

[Manise]

The service-of-silence is inexcusable and it just tells me how arrogant they are at TYPEPAD! Infallible they are not!

[Nora]

Grudges are seriously underrated.

[Cheryl S.]

I noticed that the Typepad comments seemed to be working fine yesterday afternoon. Thank goodness. Glad your tendinitis is getting better!

[claudia]

I was just over at Terry's blog and got the circle of doom.

[kellys]

I'm proud of your irkness. I'd be pissed.

Enjoy the quiet!

[Kay]

Irkness goes along with the holiday spirit. I am forced to go to luncheons and parties I really don't want to be at, people I don't care for, and a place that I feel totally out of place. All this and the grudge thing sittin' pretty on top. Bah hum bug!! Let me sit at home alone, play with the puppy, go for long walks in the country, knit and watch as many chickflicks I can stand. Yeah, merry xmas.

[Cathy-Cate]

Then when you got up, you could have gone and done laundry in an irked yet somewhat relieved and pleased way! (Plus with an air of justifiable appliance-diagnostic superiority. At least you can be relieved to know that it was not the washer/dryer's fault, just the installer's....)

[Imbrium]

You? Cantankerous? No!

[Cookie]

Holding a grudge like a little old lady holding her handbag in a bad neighborhood. Hell yes! That's one of the reasons I hate TypePad so much. Their parent company sucks and I think they have a lot to do with the massive suckatude we've been forced to deal with.

I got an error at Claudia's this morning, but you are only the second TypePad blog I've come to so far this morning.

Enjoy your break while you can. Make sure they have enough that IV to get you through your day. xo

[Doris]

I hold a grudge with the best of them. I sometimes wish I could be more like my husband, who is the most forgiving person I know. That is fortunate for me, but I hate that trait when I am holding agrudge against someone or something that he has long since forgiven....makes me grouchy to have him telling me to be nice.

[sil]

Hot toddys and laundry should get your mind off non-knitting and sore bits. Who doesn't love laundry?

[Sue]

5:30 to nine-delicious-o'clock is THREE and a half hours of additional sleep. Are you a little less irked?

[Gillian]

Figgy pudding for breakfast sounds great!

[Sarah]

I hope you continue to heal and relax. The whole TypePad comment trouble completely knocked me off my commenting rhythm.