In which I’m not really having a very good day.

I got a heads-up yesterday that I was going to be laid off today so I did the right thing last night and cleaned up my work computer, uninstalling silly applications and clearing browser caches and passwords and blah blah blah.

Today I went in to the office at nine o’clock to sign the paperwork. The drive was ultra treacherous because of the freezing rain and snow. (Yes, you read that right: I got up early to lose my job and went to do it even though all the schools are closed due to the shitty weather. Bah humbug.)

I was given a week’s severance, which I hadn’t expected since I was only there for four months. They were really nice and apologized for downsizing. Eight minutes later I was walking out the door with some COBRA paperwork and my trackball mouse in my hand.

The truck was stuck. I rocked it, but it was sitting on a sheet of ice and wouldn’t go anywhere.

The guy they laid off right after me had a 4WD, though, and was awesome enough to tow me onto blacktop. I drove home gingerly, put the truck in the damn garage, and walked to the store on ice because I wanted a fucking consolation latte but wasn’t willing to get the truck stuck again just to get one. (Have I mentioned that 1. Walla Walla doesn’t plow, and 2. THE FREEZING FUCKING RAIN?!?)

When I finally got home, I made Vegetarian White Trash Breakfast from Hell and a cardamom latte. Then I came upstairs to study base 2 a little more, but when I went to click on the tutorial link I noticed my toolbar was empty.

Yes, last night, Xmarks somehow synched with the server AFTER I deleted all my local shortcuts and CLEARED ABOUT FIVE YEARS’ WORTH OF FUCKING BOOKMARKS. I’m really smoking pissed off about it, too, because I don’t have a local backup any more (which is my own fault, I know).

I did everything in the correct order, too (I’m not an idiot luser, I do this shit FOR A LIVING) and Xmarks fucked up anyway: I uninstalled Xmarks for IE, then deleted my IE Favorites. Then I deactivated Xmarks in Firefox, then deleted my shortcuts. When I closed Firefox, it asked me if I wanted to sync my changes AND I CHOSE NO! It apparently synced anyway, for fuck’s sake, and now I have NONE, ZERO, ZIP, ZILCH of my 500+ saved and carefully organized fucking bookmarks.

Of course, because I’m a geek I was able to restore using these directions (once I cooled down enough to look for them) but my newest links are lost and I was really, truly smokin’ mad there for awhile.

Happy holidays!