After today I think I’m going to need some wrinkle cream. I swear I can see a ton of frown lines around my mouth and my brow looks permanently furrowed. I tried to upload a video from home on my dial-up connection and it didn’t go well at all. I anticipated that it would take a few hours, I never thought that five hours later it would still be uploading and be only 63% of way at that!

Then after I get here to Las Cruces to use a fast connection I upload it to Viddler. Well guess what? The first time I upload the video it takes a few minutes and then, once it uploads, it says it’s encoding. However when the encoding bar reaches the 100% mark it jumps to a 404 page. I check my uploaded files page and the blog post that I embedded the code in, sure enough, “Video Not Available”. I check my email, since it’s supposed to notify me when it’s finished encoding, nothing.

So I tried to upload it again. Then, after the second one is finished uploading and almost finished encoding, the first one is showing up and working. So I stop the second one, since the first one is working and I’ve now gotten the email notification that it was finished too. But then, after I do that, it goes back to showing that it’s not available. I ask you, WHAT THE HELL?!! It appears to be working now, but to be sure, I uploaded it to YouTube as well and put links to both file locations. Hey, it’s a chance to win $500, I don’t want to miss out because some stupid video site is acting wonky.

And did I mention that, because I was waiting, for hours, for the video to upload at home, I got nothing accomplished on the internet? Yup, didn’t dare try to browse or type up a book review for fear that I delay the lengthy upload even longer.

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