I walk into the room, throw down my things, and turn on the computer. Just another night as usual, only tonight I have a purpose in mind: check out my site and update it. So, I get online and call my site up, fully expecting to see it behaving perfectly normal. But, low and behold, once again the k's are missing from the headings or all of the apostrophes have magically become question marks. Oh, and then another little surprise: without my knowing it, yet another pop-up has been added to my site, even though I have the smallest amount of space available, just so I could get away with just one pop-up.
But none of this should really surprise me at all; after all, this is Tripod. I sigh, scratch my head, check the source codes to make sure nothing there is wrong, and decide to let it fix itself, since it normally does anyway...I'll just have to explain the missing letters and changed symbols for the time being. That popup, though, irks me.
I head over to the tripod site, and get to work uploading a single, already made html document. Of course, this cannot be allowed to be easy...Tripod an I are at war. First, it will not let me get off of my guest gear account name. This takes nearly a half-hour, and is decidedly annoying. By now I have a blazing headache and am just hoping that nothing else will go wrong. No such luck. Now it won't let me log in to work on my site. The page is going slow, even though I have a cable modem, and keeps saying that such and such page doesn't exist. Finally, I get in. fifteen minutes later I have finally convinced the files and upload pages to open up after about 65 tries. I browse my computer and find the one file that I wish to upload. I think that by now Tripod must be convinced that I don't give in easilly and will be nice for once. Yet it remains it's little bitchy self.
After several tries, I get the document to upload. My head feels ready to expload, and I feel ready to toss my computer out of my second story dorm-room window. I check to make sure it works. What? The file isn't there? I have to go back and do all that again, re-uploading the damn file. Finally, everything is ready and working. I sigh, close the tripod file manager, close my sight with its odd assortment of question marks and missing k's, and scream for the next two hours. Just another night really.