Pointless Announcements

This reminds me. My wife was recently trained to do allergy testing at the office she works at. The kind where you stick people with needles full of the stuff they might be allergic to and see where it puffs up and sets off a reaction. The day after her training was complete she called me. It went like this:
Mrs. B - "Hey, I'm all done. They sent me home with a box of needles to use for practice. And next week I have to train S (girl at her office) so she can do it too."
Me - "How are you going to practice at home?"
Mrs. B - "On you! They gave me saline, so there will be nothing in them, but it gives me practice in using the needle."
Me - "And you are already able to train someone else even though you just learned?"
Mrs. B - "Yeah, the doctor wants a couple of us to know how. And since it's not an official certification, I can show her."
Me - "How about this? How about you give ME the needles and explain to me how to do it, and I'll practice on you? It can be training for you to teach someone else."
Mrs B - "No way! I'm not letting you stick me over and over again with a bunch of needles!"
Me - "Exactly. Have fun finding someone to practice on."

 

I just spent nearly 30 minutes in chat support with Adobe just to have them say my software version is too old for chat and phone support. Apparently they only support the current version and one version back.

Sure I'm three versions (or five years) behind, but what the fuck? My license was disabled after I recovered from a fucking crash. If you don't support your old fucking software, then remove the fucking licensing restrictions that disable your old fucking software for people who don't want to buy the new versions of your crap because the new features are simply useless.

I have a damn serial number and I'm damn well registered with you!

Oh, and thanks for linking me to your support page and user forums.

Asshole.

I guess it's time for the ol' trial and error.

 

Oh, I fixed it in 3 min. (literally). I just Googled my error and followed a fix page that Adobe had. This brings up two questions:

1) Why didn't I do that first? (I was following on-screen instructions of the program.)

2) Why didn't the idiot and his idiot "superior" direct me to this page or know anything about the instructions on the page? (I don't know. There were five sets of instructions to handle the problem, and the first one worked. They didn't give me any information about any of these things.)

Lesson learned: Always try to fix software yourself before going to tech "support." (It's what I normally do. I'm just having an off day.)

 

I wanted a cane at our wedding, but I was denied.

 

This is true.

 

Wow, according to you guys, I should have *cough, cough* "upgraded" *ahem* from Adobe CS3 to CS6.

 

Totally.

I've been repeating a mantra lately: "When life hands you shit, make shit sandwiches." It makes me smile a bit.

Lemonade, pffft.

 

Wine and Naruto: Shippuuden. Nice.