Saturday Sucks

And it's not even noon yet!

First, our online store is apparently down, as the guy who handles the back end for us is doing maintenence on it. This sucks because 1) I had orders that came in last night I needed to process today, and 2) we can't work on the mail order now since we need info that's in the store. (There's so much backed up mail order due to the con trip that it's taking longer than usual to get it all packed and ready.) It would have been nice if oh, I dunno, we'd been told this maintenence was coming so we could have planned around it.

Second, someone who bought some stuff from me on eBay on 9/3 has already filed a non-delivery refund claim with PayPal! Yay! I say to allow two weeks on all my auctions. Thanks for not being able to read, buddy! They also completely ignored the response I gave them where I said "hey, sorry about that, was out of town, stuff will be shipped this weekend". Oh no, it's better to file a chargeback with PayPal instead. Hooray!

Third, I am drowning in emails to answer. And of course they are all URGENT! Unfortunately, a lot of them concern orders in the online store, which I can't access to check on people's order status! Hooray! And there are dozens of others which are requests for things I can't deal with until Monday at the earliest.

Fourth, our online forum is acting up again, where it refuses to let us post to it, saying we are Forbidden to post on the server. It only does this when the server gets completely overloaded. And strangely, we're apparently somehow almost going to exceed our bandwidth there, which makes absolutely no sense. The forum isn't even that big, and it doesn't have *that* much activity! I can only assume it's because of the constant barrage of spambots from Albania.

I guess since the day is already gonna be crappy, I might as well go work on some tax stuff, so my stress for today can be complete. Hooray!

PS divalea has pictures of her horrible house fire up at her journal. For pete's sake, send her a couple of bucks if you can spare it at divalea (at) gmail (dot) com. The pictures are heartbreaking.

Saturday Sucks

And it's not even noon yet!

First, our online store is apparently down, as the guy who handles the back end for us is doing maintenence on it. This sucks because 1) I had orders that came in last night I needed to process today, and 2) we can't work on the mail order now since we need info that's in the store. (There's so much backed up mail order due to the con trip that it's taking longer than usual to get it all packed and ready.) It would have been nice if oh, I dunno, we'd been told this maintenence was coming so we could have planned around it.

Second, someone who bought some stuff from me on eBay on 9/3 has already filed a non-delivery refund claim with PayPal! Yay! I say to allow two weeks on all my auctions. Thanks for not being able to read, buddy! They also completely ignored the response I gave them where I said "hey, sorry about that, was out of town, stuff will be shipped this weekend". Oh no, it's better to file a chargeback with PayPal instead. Hooray!

Third, I am drowning in emails to answer. And of course they are all URGENT! Unfortunately, a lot of them concern orders in the online store, which I can't access to check on people's order status! Hooray! And there are dozens of others which are requests for things I can't deal with until Monday at the earliest.

Fourth, our online forum is acting up again, where it refuses to let us post to it, saying we are Forbidden to post on the server. It only does this when the server gets completely overloaded. And strangely, we're apparently somehow almost going to exceed our bandwidth there, which makes absolutely no sense. The forum isn't even that big, and it doesn't have *that* much activity! I can only assume it's because of the constant barrage of spambots from Albania.

I guess since the day is already gonna be crappy, I might as well go work on some tax stuff, so my stress for today can be complete. Hooray!

PS divalea has pictures of her horrible house fire up at her journal. For pete's sake, send her a couple of bucks if you can spare it at divalea (at) gmail (dot) com. The pictures are heartbreaking.

Nerdnerdnerdnerdnerd

Stole these links from okojosan, I have no clue where she found them. But I had to share with all my WoW-lovin' homies!

Male Blood Elf Animations I like how he seems like every megalomaniacal anime villain. Heh heh heh...

Female Blood Elf Animations Her dance is soooooo familiar, yet I cannot place it. I also like that she seems both evil and bitchy in all her emotes.

Male Draenei Animations He's so cool! And how can you not love his "Tunak Tunak Tun" dance? I was planning to make a male Draenei for that reason alone, but he's just made of awesome anyway.

Female Draenei Animations! The one I've been waiting for! They are cute as buttons! I just wish they weren't on the Alliance side, since I just prefer Horde these days. I am SO jazzed about her dance animation, too! It looks like they went with a Bollywood girl kind of thing, yay! Which means she matches the male Draenei. ^_^

Ranged Attack Animations Female and Male Draenei just look totally cool with their guns.

All in all, I am even more excited about the release of the Burning Crusade expansion now. ^_^ Although, I think the Draenei are way too cool, and thus, the "population balancing" hopes for the new races are probably going to be dashed. The Blood Elves aren't slutty enough to make people want to play Horde, unfortunately.

Nerdnerdnerdnerdnerd

Stole these links from okojosan, I have no clue where she found them. But I had to share with all my WoW-lovin' homies!

Male Blood Elf Animations I like how he seems like every megalomaniacal anime villain. Heh heh heh...

Female Blood Elf Animations Her dance is soooooo familiar, yet I cannot place it. I also like that she seems both evil and bitchy in all her emotes.

Male Draenei Animations He's so cool! And how can you not love his "Tunak Tunak Tun" dance? I was planning to make a male Draenei for that reason alone, but he's just made of awesome anyway.

Female Draenei Animations! The one I've been waiting for! They are cute as buttons! I just wish they weren't on the Alliance side, since I just prefer Horde these days. I am SO jazzed about her dance animation, too! It looks like they went with a Bollywood girl kind of thing, yay! Which means she matches the male Draenei. ^_^

Ranged Attack Animations Female and Male Draenei just look totally cool with their guns.

All in all, I am even more excited about the release of the Burning Crusade expansion now. ^_^ Although, I think the Draenei are way too cool, and thus, the "population balancing" hopes for the new races are probably going to be dashed. The Blood Elves aren't slutty enough to make people want to play Horde, unfortunately.