*sigh* So, remember that little software glitch that I was having with my Adobe/Macromedia stuff? Two weeks later and it isn’t looking any better. You know it isn’t looking good when you ask the software engineer assigned to your case when it is time to finally admit defeat and he replies that it might be that time now. All I want is for Flash and Fireworks to work on my computer. Just so totally frustrated over this. I don’t even think that eating copious handfulls of the new Hershey Dark Chocolate Truffle kisses will help either (YOU.MUST.TRY.).
Gah. Gah. Gah.
It doesn’t improve things much when our front yard is looking really really bad (think nasty clumps of dandelions intermixed with WAY.TOO.LONG.GRASS) because the weather will not cooperate. All I have to do is to merely think, in my head and not even saying out loud “Self, it is time to CUT THAT GRASS” and the sky clouds up and we suddenly have lots of dark grey rainclouds and the downpour begins. So my mother-in-law is coming over tomorrow to spend some quality time with Owen (can you already guess where this is going?) and I (stupidly) said, “Oh good. I’ll be able to MOW THE LAWN finally”.
It started to pour at 5:30pm and it hasn’t shown any signs of letting up anytime soon.
Don’t mind me–I’m just the one standing in the corner repeatedly hitting my head against the wall.
Edited to add: A bittersweet discovery–I can load and run the programs on my computer at work, which means the problem is something to do with my computer at home. My brand new-bought in January of this year-super fancy expensive computer. I think I may have to cry now.
Edited YET AGAIN to add: Chrissy is SO smart. She found the solution for a simple fix. Both programs totally work now. *happy dance*
Chrissy says:
Just out of curiosity- what exactly is the program doing? and does it involve any of the pics I sent you?
April 20th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Trena says:
Chrissy-
Both of the programs (Flash and Fireworks) won’t even load on my computer at home–they give me error messages when the initial start-up scripts (splash screen) start to run. Flash (just in case you aren’t familiar) among other things can animate web graphics and Fireworks is like Photoshop, just more specifically for web graphics rather than photos. I have another program that I can do my web graphics in (not photoshop, but similar) but I really want to do it in Fireworks because from everything that I’ve read, Fireworks can produce some amazing results. Plus there’s always the fact of I paid a chunk of change to purchase the programs and frustration that for that much money it should just work.
April 20th, 2007 at 2:26 pm